My Leading Stories

All four of my grandparents wrapped me in love as I grew from a skinny mountain boy into a young…

In 2014, my wife and I boarded a plane and flew to London, England, to spend a week touring the…

The Words We Choose Did you know the average English-speaking adult wields a vocabulary of 20,000 to 35,000 words? Yet…

Throughout our lives, each of us encounters loss. Sometimes it’s a fleeting setback; other times it reshapes the landscape of…

The Chesapeake’s Got Talent: Finding the Spark That Never Fades Life at The Chesapeake — our lively retirement community of…

Recently, my wife and I needed to make a trip to a small town about four hours away. A childhood…

There is a photograph I hold almost like a charm—one that outshines even my wife’s whimsical portrait surrounded by plush…

Mark Twain once mused that he “never did a day’s work in all [his] life. ” For him, genuine work…

In the quiet hours of night, when the world softens and the mind drifts inward, I imagine my life as…

When you grow up poor—truly poor—everything in your world seems just out of reach. For me, as a boy in…

Music has always been the heartbeat of my life, a gentle companion through both joys and sorrows. Growing up in…

As a young boy, I grew up being told by my mother that “Laughter is good for whatever is ailing…