A thought provoking thought…

“If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer

A column by Richard Reynolds-Autographs

Written by Richard Reynolds Commentary from Richard Reynolds At birth every person has a clean slate with the ability to do something great. Some people would say that there are social and economic factors that prevent a person from achieving great things. I believe just the opposite that one can add value to their name [...]

Developing Confidence…

Gradually Increase Your Confidence
by Hani Al-Qasem

Many of us generally feel great, relieved and grateful when we leave the past behind, where we gladly and happily approach and enter a new year.
We tend to look at the beginning of a new year as a new era, as an opportunity for us to recoup and regenerate, an [...]

Young son of Birmingham Radio Host Rick Burgess Drowns

Young Son Of Birmingham Radio Host Drowns In Swimming Pool

Sunday, Jan 20, 2008 – 07:32 PM 

By Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The 2-year-old son of a popular Birmingham radio personality has drowned in a residential swimming pool in Shelby County.In a statement, Sheriff Chris Curry says the child, William Bronner Burgess, the youngest son of [...]

Young son of Birmingham Radio Host Rick Burgess Drowns

Young Son Of Birmingham Radio Host Drowns In Swimming Pool

Sunday, Jan 20, 2008 – 07:32 PM 

By Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The 2-year-old son of a popular Birmingham radio personality has drowned in a residential swimming pool in Shelby County.
In a statement, Sheriff Chris Curry says the child, William Bronner Burgess, the youngest son of [...]

Autographs…

At birth every person has a clean slate with the ability to do something great! Some people would say that there are social and economic factors that prevent a person from achieving great things. I believe just the opposite that one can add value to their name through the life that they live.
Last summer my [...]

Do we prepare kids for college or for life?

January 16, 2008

The College Question

Is our K-12 education system too focused on preparing all kids for college, at the expense of preparing them for life?  This basic question has been setting the edusphere ablaze recently.At A Place at the Table, Susan Graham’s blog at Teacher Magazine, Graham asks “Have we all been part of a [...]

20 years of experience or 20 years of the same experience?

…Its not what you go through its how you go through it…

What a spin on words but is it a “spin” or is it truth in its simplest form? We moan and groan many times about the things that daily we grow through but really does going through something mean that we have learned or [...]

Achievement…can it be achieved?

The Nature of Time
by Robert Stuberg
Well, to begin with, time, as we think about it, doesn’t even really exist. We think of weeks and hours and minutes and seconds, but these are completely human inventions. Days and years can be scientifically measured, of course, but these concepts as they’re familiar to us would mean nothing [...]

To change or not to change?

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
–Gen. Eric Shinseki,
former Army Chief of Staff