Life Lessons Articles

A few years ago, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  While all on it’s own the experience was the most terrifying of my life, the people who were supposed to care about me really didn’t. Doctors, no less, made the circumstances far worse than they needed to be, and...

“It’s not how well you perform in your summers that will define your success in life, it’s how well you do in your winters.”                                                       Jim Roan Around 9:00 P.M. on Labor Day night, I headed back to my bedroom with a plan of...

"There is no wisdom like frankness."                  Benjamin Disraeli As an English literature major in college, my professors routinely asked me to write several-pages-long analyses of books they earlier had assigned me to read.  The goal of these assignments, of...

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.                                                                      Margaret Mead  “The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”                                  ...