Do you ever feel like you want to fit in with everyone around you? It’s very natural, and we want to do it, I guess, as human beings. In fact, that’s one reason it’s so important who you select to spend your time with, because you’re going to...
Do you have any funny memories of your elementary school time? I had a third-grade teacher. Her name was Ms. Minor. So I don’t know how old I was in the third grade. If you start kindergarten when you’re five, I guess, I was about eight years old, I...
Did you ever do anything in your childhood that you regretted? If you didn’t, congratulations. But in my case, I can’t say that I made it through without embarrassing myself more than once. There was a particular rock group that was very popular when I was...
Sometimes in our lives, we need that help of other people. I’ve got lots of experiences in my upbringing where other people stepped in and helped me. Let me tell you about two of them. My mom went to work of necessity, of split family, parents divorced, mom went...
Got to tell you about an experience I had when I was growing up. We would go to visit my grandmother. She lived in a small farming community. We’re talking population 400 people at the time. It was a farm. My cousins lived in the town so we had kids our age to...
I just got back from going to the dentist for the six-month cleaning. And I went prepared. I took with me a book that I’m currently reading, about halfway through it. A Tale of Two Cities. I actually got to read a few pages while I was there. But when I started...