One of the most fulfilling victories of my life happened to me while coaching my son’s 7-8 year old flag football team, “The Flaming Sharks.” When I coach, I use a swift democratic process to allow the children to name their team, and it can go from familiar names like “The Heat” and “The 49ers” […]

On January 28, 2014 the Atlanta metropolitan area was crippled. Going into noon all was well, but by 2:00pm disaster had hit Atlanta like I have never seen before in over 20 years. A snow storm bringing about 2 inches of snow covered the ground and iced the roads; seemingly the entire highway and system […]

Last year, a recent discovery rocked the art world.  An original painting of Vincent van Gogh was discovered after being discarded and dismissed as a fake for over one hundred years.  The “Sunset at Montmajour,” estimated to now be worth tens of millions of dollars, was stored a away for decades in the obscurity of […]

Parenting has changed me! Some of the things I was against as a child, I now advocate as a parent.  One such thing is eating vegetables.  Like many children, I usually found eating vegetables detestable.  It took pushing, prodding, bribing, and sometimes spanking to get me to finish the green, nasty stuff on my plate.  […]