I got the opportunity to go on vacation over Christmas. My family has always picked the beach over the mountains because we’re generally lazy people who don’t want to do any strenuous activity on vacation – sitting on the beach with a drink under an umbrella almost always sounds like more fun to me than [...]

“Are you messing with me private?” These words were shouted at me by a drill instructor at Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1992. Part of my training in the Army included a course called Visual Aircraft Recognition. In this thrilling class, an instructor puts a picture of an aircraft on the screen and you have to [...]

Growing up my family always ate dinner together. When I say we ate dinner together, I mean that we all cleaned our plate every night. My mom is an excellent cook but that fact in itself has nothing to do with why my brother, sister and I cleaned our plates every night. We cleaned our [...]

Recently, I had the opportunity to go to Worlds of Fun with my two daughters: Meghan (10) and Savannah (5). Being a father of two girls, I look forward to going to places like this because my girls have no interest in sports (other than soccer – which really isn’t a sport) and amusement parks [...]

“The other people that work here don’t have the same level of commitment that I have.” These words were said to me while I was evaluating one of my employees at exactly 9:35 a.m. by a person who had just walked in the door 30 minutes late to work.
The truth of the whole matter is [...]