If you expect greatness, you shouldn’t be surprised by it.
~ Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers

Call it what you want; optimism, naïveté, even simple-mindedness, but I’m looking to make something great happen and I will not rest until it does. I expect the electric. I sense the superb. When a week or [...]

Everyone I meet is on a journey and in the providence of God , our paths cross. And I think they cross so that we can mutually encourage each other.
~ Ed Dobson

I met with a potential client this week. She’s a talented, beautiful young singer from Nashville. She’s good, really, really [...]

My daughters are eleven-years-old.

For Megan and Emily, it has been a huge learning year. The fairy tales of childhood, while not completely gone, are slipping from their grasp. It seems way too soon, but day by day, my girls are discovering fact from fiction; what is fantasy and what is reality. They [...]

September 12, 2001

Remember how quiet it was?

Remember how different it felt?

Remember how there were no planes in the sky?

Remember?

It was as if the volume of the wind had been turned up.  We were off balance.  Time had slowed. Meaning had changed.  Staring straight into the face of evil had [...]

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

The pediatrician was taking a long time to come into the narrow, windowless room where my wife and I were desperately trying to keep our 18-month old daughters occupied. “Where is he?” we wondered. It was just before 9 a.m. Finally, a nurse came in. “Sorry for the delay,” she [...]