Your Central Purpose

A friend visiting from Colorado asked an important question over lunch a couple of days ago, the answer to which finally surfaced during a quiet moment earlier today. While I didn’t ask, I imagine the question was asked as he is at an age (mid 20s) where I recall noticing the same thing in the …

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Fair Youth

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave …

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Stop Cyberbullying!

A memo from the new Headmaster of my son's school yesterday caught my eye and attention. He spoke of the "good and bad" of the internet, particularly as it related to children and borrowed a quote from columnist Michael Daly of the New York Daily News to emphasize his point: There have always been cruel …

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Let’s Raise Kids to be Entrepreneurs

I believe that supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is the key to a brighter future for the United States. If many of the most successful people in business these days - industry titans like Bill Gates, Michael Dell and Facebook whiz Mark Zuckerberg - dropped out of school to implement their dreams, wouldn't we would be …

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