Encouraging Extraordinary!

  We Mayor or may not have tried to borrow a McDonaldland playground character. In college, in my rebellion years, a group of friends and I ...

  On a recent trip back to my hometown of Knoxville, my mind returned to the day a highschool friend said,'' let's go cliff jump...

I spent part of my early teen years in Boy Scouts, camping, canoeing, scout meetings, tying knots, trying to learn the Scout law and oath… a...

  Hot Summer days spent by the pool with 50 other kids in embarrassingly small swimsuits… miles of Pixie Stix consumed six inches at a time ...

  When my kids were young, we tried to have a family adventure each week, like trips to a local attraction, the YMCA pool, fishing in the p...

  Every Easter at the home of my adolescence, my Mother would host the family Easter gathering after church. There was usually ham, sweet po...

When I was a young Baptist kid, I only knew of two days of the Holy Week, Palm Sunday and Easter. One involved Palm Branches and a Hosanna s...