As a boy, I loved the old Popeye the Sailorman cartoons. Every afternoon, we'd come home from school and my grandmother would let us watch the Popeye Club on channel 5. It seemed each episode would have the patient and good Popeye put up with some shenanigans from Bluto....
If you've hung around these parts for a while, you know already what I'm going to say: Spiritual maturity is a particular emphasis for me. And the reason for that is because it is precisely what I lack and what I long to have. The reason why I lack...
"What you need is an attitude of gratitude." The trainer was teaching us new salesmen how to keep positive in the face of rejection. You see, it's being told "no" over and over again that usually brings somebody's sales career to an end. If you don't know how to...
"He just doesn't get it." Two of my friends were talking about me and they didn't know I could hear them. They were right. I didn't get what they were trying to teach me. My mind doesn't work that way. They were both trying to teach me how to...
The transformation in our world from a time when slavery was a "peculiar institution" and a time when the notion of "purchasing" a human being is unthinkable is nothing short of wonderful! And yet, human trafficking is still a very real crime in our modern world, even in our...
I'm not a big, outdoorsy, guy. So, camping out was never something I really enjoyed, except for this one time. Me and my best friend, Mark, had a great "fort" in the woods near our apartment complex in Orlando when I was about 11 or 12. Being central Florida,...
It was an incredibly moving experience. Dressed in their formal uniforms, the military guard walked to the casket holding the remains of the honored veteran and they began the mournful playing of taps as the color guard saluted. Then, with such attention, the two sailors began the methodical folding...
"Daddy, I don't have any friends!" It was a heartbreaking moment in the life of my daughter's young life, and it broke my heart for her. She was learning a lesson that we all have to learn: "A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is...
Are you the jealous type? I guess with me, it all depends. I am jealous of my time. I am jealous of my schedule. But other than that, I can't say I really struggle with jealousy. Oh wait, if I'm honest, I do have to admit I do get jealous...
He really came across as wise. But something just didn't feel right. For the life of me, I couldn't put my finger on it. I liked what he was saying but I couldn't help feeling like I was being manipulated. Man, I hated this! Here's the situation. I was a...
