Tess was seven years old when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. They were moving to an apartment complex next month because Daddy didn’t have enough money to […]

This Sunday my grandson, Grayson, will celebrate the fourth anniversary of his birth. Author Adair Lara once wrote, “Grandkids bring you into a sweeter, slower present. They show you the future at a time when a lot of your friends are thinking about the past. And they take you back […]

It’s been said that without trials and tribulation, there would be no heroes, and without heroes, there would be no stories, and without stories, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming. That may be true, but is it easier said than […]

Benjamin Franklin was one of our country’s founding fathers and one of the most brilliant and admired men of his day. He was also a paragon of the American work ethic. From 1734-1747 Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almanac, a widely popular collection of proverbs propounding the virtue of hard work as […]