My Leading Stories
I share personal stories, thoughts, and experiences from my daily life journey.
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My Favorite Teacher
As a young teenager, I struggled to figure out who I was. To the adults in my life, I was…
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Discovering The Art of Being Alone
In 2006, as I looked ahead to my retirement in October, I found myself wondering what I would do with…
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Free-Range Child
My younger brother, Jerry, and I grew up in a coal camp where no one told us how far we…
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Things Change
One thing I have learned as I have gotten older is that…
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A Letter to Mom
I hope this letter somehow finds its way to you…
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Long Hard Look
Recently, I took a long, hard look at myself in the mirror…
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Living Life Without Regrets
One of my goals in life has been to live with a few regrets as possible…
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Scars of Life
When I was about nine years old, my mother handed me a broken plate…
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Cool Hands Luke
My all-time favorite movie shares the title of this missive…
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The Joy of Holding Hands
My wife, Jerilyn, and I have been holding hands for many years…
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Retirement: A New Weekend of Life
Retirement is something many of us look forward to…
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A Life Measured in Memories
I recently ran across a quote by author John Green that said…
