I was “away from home” ever so briefly a week or so back. The colleagues I was due to meet and work with my first full morning abroad had yet to arrive, and given the beauty of the spring morning, I went out for a brief walk. As I often do when traveling, I was [...]
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The Ugly American
Posted in accountability, Analogies, Changed for Good, Character, coming of age, Compass, Darkness, failure to yield, Illusions, Learning, The World is Flat on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Duty Free?
Posted in accountability, Analogies, Babel, Bankruptcy, Changed for Good, cleaning out your closet, coming of age, Compass, Credit Crisis, Epiphanies on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Should we offer him thousands of rams and ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for our sins? No, O people, the LORD has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk [...]
The other side of the mirror
Posted in accountability, Character, Compass, Epiphanies, Illusions, Made in USA, Memorial Day, The root of the problem, Wicked: Changed for Good on November 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? I wonder what he saw? Did he look below the surface? Did he ever think he might be wrong? More on that in a moment. Touring a museum has only given me goose bumps twice. Once was in Europe in 2008, while viewing relics of [...]
Do hard things
Posted in Acceptance, accountability, Be Prepared, Blood in the water, Character, Commitment, Compass, erosion, failure to yield, Falling apart on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“How dare you?”, meet “Dare I not?”. People complain. That is a fact of life. People make mistakes. That is another fact of life. Sometimes, mistakes take on the form of fatal errors, and that is a hard reality. Without getting into the details, we all likely know of Penn State head football coach Joe [...]
A tale of two cities
Posted in censorship, Compass, Dance Dance Revolution, helicopter parents, High School Nemesis, musings on, Revolutionary War, Teenagers on October 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
East meets West: Better versus the best? Such are the musings of the morning, for today we are Living On Tulsa Time. They say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. The same could be said of Broken Arrow. Some artists are purists, others are hard core. Some are true to the discipline, others [...]
Everybody makes mistakes…
Posted in Blink, Compass, failure to yield, mentoring, Miley Cyrus, Oklahoma Department of Public Safety on January 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Failure to move to non adjacent lane for an emergency vehicle: that was my crime. The layman’s term for it is sometimes referred to as “failure to yield“. In the immortal words of Hannah Montana, aka Miley Cyrus: Everybody makes mistakes Everybody has those days Everybody knows what, what I’m talkin ’bout Everybody gets that [...]
Kid free weekend: Opening Pandora’s box
Posted in Best Friends, Blink, Compass, Fatherhood, Lyric vault moments, mentoring, musings, Time Capsule on October 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A good friend and newly minted father of an adorable daughter posted the following on Facebook Friday evening: “Left the kid at home tonight with her grandparents and went on a one hour date. It’s funny how it only took two weeks to make something we’ve been doing for over 12 years seem really [...]
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