A few weeks back, I became a member of a rather distinct and unique club, I reached my fifty-gallon goal for blood donation. It was a...

John Lewis, young mentee of Martin Luther King, veteran nonviolent activist of the Freedom Rides and other actions vital to the civil...

Recently, I was reflecting on my first summer in recovery. I just turned 22 and I had nine months in recovery. I actually got my yellow...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...

Handshake Across the High Water Mark of the Civil War, Gettysburg PA Recently, I had the opportunity to ride my bike through the...

It is mid-June. The origins of the name of the month comes from the Latin, “Juno" and is associated with the Roman goddess Juno, who was...

“Hope is never the loudest voice-it's the quiet hum beneath despair, the fragile thread we follow when the world seems intent on...

This post is titled what a colleague said to me when I was going through a rough patch over a decade ago. The advice came with a...

There has been nothing ever in human history like D-DAY , June 6 1944. It remains the largest coordinated event of all time. On that day,...

I grew up in a steel town, in a steel family. Every single facet of the world I was raised in was influenced by the second largest steel...

The title of this weekly gratitude post is from one of my favorite quotes of all time written by JD Salinger, below. While it may not...

When I think back at the people who have shaped my life, some really stand out. There were several people I was not particularly close to...

I recently read a book written by the late Senator John McCain. US Statesman and Vietnam POW. The book was called The Restless Wave, Good...

The Old Man of Stoer, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye Scotland I love to travel. Julie and I have done less of it in recent years for...

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”  ― C.S. Lewis   I...