Before the events of these past ten days dominated our national conversation, I had selected this week’s tale that emphasizes the consequences attendant with our inability to meet our accepted responsibilities. Responsibility refers to the duty of having authority or control over something or someone. Attendant to being responsible is […]

The following text appeared as an advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post magazine published on January 2, 1915. It was copyrighted by the Cadillac Motor Car Company. Consider how true and relevant these words written over 100 years ago remain today: In every field of endeavor, the one that is first must […]

Grover Cleveland served as our twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States. He remains today the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms as the elected chief executive of our nation. Cleveland was known as a reformer and a staunch opponent of political corruption. He believed that America’s citizens […]

I have loved this tale, authored by Leo Tolstoy, for some fifty years. I believe it had some influence in my decision to become involved with the Salvation Army Advisory Board back in the early 1970’s. I have never included Tolstoy’s tale in my Weekend Inspirations primarily because of its length. But after […]