Encouraging Extraordinary!

  As a kid, my sister and I  used to get excited to go to the playground. We had a few favorites that had forts to climb in and tunnels to r...

Tall Eastern White Pines bordered the property between my preteen home and the neighborhood church.  One of the tree’s low branches invited ...

Photo: Carrie Borden After my freshman year in high school, I had the wonderful privilege of going with my choir to Europe. Yes, you read th...

The first time I tried waterskiing was not what I expected. I had seen others hang on to the rope behind the boat, come out of the water, s...

Not long after getting married, Anita bought me a hybrid Raleigh mountain bike. I was so excited. I had a wanderlust for riding that relieve...

  My family had a mini-farm, 7 acres on the Little Tennessee river that we would visit on weekends and some afternoons when I was in element...

I took Military Science class in College, mainly because I needed another college credit and a couple of friends were in ROTC and they neede...