One yard. A big giant step. One yard and your life changes. One yard from glory. Former ballplayers have the best stories. The good talkers can take an incident from a game many years ago and make it the centerpiece of speeches that they give long after they have finished playing. The “formers,” can be… Read more »
Washington Booker III
The news of death travels at Internet speed. I found out about my friend “Wash” while trolling along on Facebook. He’d died that morning. “Book” was the type of guy you didn’t envision dying. Not suddenly. Not of pneumonia. There is no single descriptor for “Booker.” Just like his many different friends called him by… Read more »
Keep Fresh!
Learn something everyday! Keeps you fresh.
Going Backwards
Going backwards is not an option.
Leadership?
Positional Leadership gives you positional power. It doesn’t make you a leader!
Differences
Differences can make us stronger!
Change
America is changing. For many its exhilarating and introspective. Scary for others. America is changing!
Leadership
They came from near and far, a migration of young male leadership from Cornell, Purdue, Kentucky, Georgetown, Arkansas, SMU, two HBCUs, (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and many others. In all sixty-nine African American males came to Campaign, Illinois for a weeklong Leadership Conference, with the goal of nurturing their own leadership skills and “to… Read more »
The Fight
I rolled into Birmingham Alabama, my hometown, for a couple of days of Board meetings, to hang out with some friends and to visit with my 90 year-old Dad, when, bam… a heavyweight championship fight broke out on the University Of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) campus, Don King and all. Deontay Wilder, never heard of him? I… Read more »
Father’s Day
Reflecting on Father’s Day, I think about the man for whom I am named and realize how much I lucked out. Man, did I luck out! I never looked outside our home for a hero or a role model. I never looked to sports figures. My guy was living in the house with us. Daddy… Read more »