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The Power & Gift of Acknowledgement | Inspiring a Child To Walk
Two brief stories, after which I’ll tell you my “secret” to getting a young child to walk. Story #1 — Yesterday, during my weekly volunteer work at Austin State Hospital (ASH) I was making my round of...
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Ride The Hashtag -or- Live To Serve?
This blog is not about on-line shopping or social media, although I begin there for introductory purposes. Similar to Wal-Mart, most people either love or hate Amazon.com. I “love” Amazon, although I...
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Word Choice | The Power to Shape Attitudes and Entrench Stereotypes
Coffee shops are somewhat like water troughs. People come in parched and desperate for the black, sometimes sweet, yet always caffeinated rush, but also to shoulder up alongside the regulars, say...
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Prejudice & Racism | Sometimes Unconscious, Always Unconscionable
No one likes to admit to or think of oneself as prejudicial or racist. There is no such thing as prejudice, racism or bigotry. They are mere fabrications of an elite and liberal media! At least this is...
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Hurtful Charity | A New Year’s Appeal To The Kind-Hearted and Well-To-Do
You’ve likely heard the adage, Give till it hurts, yet it’s unlikely you’re aware just how hurtful those acts of giving can be. I’m not referring to charity of international aid–nation to nation...
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10 Statements That Shaped My Life | Perhaps They Can Yours, Too
Julian Fellowes’ superb historical piece drama, Downton Abbey, is chock-full of pearls of wisdom if you listen closely. A Season 4 episode has Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith) telling young Tom Branson...
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Leadership | Of Donkeys and People
“One night it’s a donkey, another night it’s a person!” So matter-of-factly stated an Afrikaner police officer to a colleague of mine, one 1990’s midnight in a North West Province, South African town....
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A First Act of Life Was Learning To Walk | Why Have We Forgotten How?
I was Born To Run. At five years of age I was The Flash. Like the gingerbread man who ran away from the farmer’s wife, I recall breaking free from the confinement of a nurse’s home office in Nyeri,...
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White Supremacy, Black Experience: A Lesson In Listening
“Americans make choices constantly as they try to navigate through the racial landscape. And their first choice is how they listen. Blacks and whites do not listen well to one another. They infer,...
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(Humorous) Lessons of Life from Tee Offs to Fairways
I’m not a lover of golf; at best a friend, and these days a mere acquaintance. Up until 2000, however, I played maybe once a month, and that, because it was my dad’s game of choice. When I began the...
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