For Your 4th of July…a Priority
https://youtu.be/bh2Mvw2wZtw This morning, I am thinking about a “letter to the editor” that I cut from our local newspaper on June 10, 2010. Ten years ago, I had it framed. It described history that should be remembered. Today, I’m also thinking...
PANDEMIC—A Prayer of Perspective
Click Here to Watch Andy Read this Prayer on YouTube. <<< Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for today and for the future being designed by this present. We know the hardest steel is created from the hottest fire and that the most valuable diamond is a...
Kenny Rogers, My Friend (but ONE Night Was a Comedian’s Nightmare!)
For more than five years, the last song of the night was the same. When the familiar three chords of the intro began, then repeated, I headed for the bus. Unless Dolly was with us. Because when she was, Dolly always came back out to do the...
The Best Response Ever!
Here is a topic for your family to wrap a conversation around at tonight’s dinner table. Perhaps your employees or co-workers need some GREAT discussion material for the water-cooler! When we live and work in the public space, criticism is inevitable. In my years of...
Good Morning Again…from Orange Beach!
This photograph is what the sky looked like at the beach this morning. It was about 6:15, the water was beautiful, but it was an odd sunrise. At least I’d never seen one like it. Was that a straight cloud coming out of the bigger one. Yep. What the heck? As the...
Remembering George H. W. Bush — And Our Funniest Moment Together
Yes, he was 94. Still, I am sad about the passing of President George H.W. Bush. What a great and honorable life he lived. And what a smile—in success and failure, despite the death of a child, and living an increasingly public life even after his presidency...this...
The Answer is Probably “No.”
Every year, about this time, I field a handful of inquiries from a head football coach or his staff. Often, someone else talked to them about me months earlier and for whatever reason at the time, no one reached out. Now, however, if the season is not going as they...
Yes, We DO Get Along!
I don’t remember the airline or where the flight was headed. But I will never forget the woman seated next to me. During the course of our brief conversation, I mentioned that my family lives in Orange Beach, Alabama. Her eyebrows furrowed as she received that fairly...
Ten Years Later
Yes, the official release date is June 12, but to be assured of obtaining a copy, you can pre-order here right now. “But wait,” you say, “haven’t I read this book before?” My sly, cagey answer would be, “No. No, you haven’t. At least, not this book.” Here’s the story…...