Listen to “Catch a Wave.” Several years ago, our local Chamber of Commerce brought in a renowned demographer to talk with a large group of business and civic leaders about the [...]
Listen to “I Want Your Job.” People often ask how they can get a position as a grantmaker with a foundation. It seems sensible that donors with foundations would want help in [...]
Listen to “Nothing Left To Prove.” All of my ‘aha’ moments in life have come from reading, silence, or listening to others. Except one, and that was at lunch with a friend. We [...]
Listen to “A Better Life.” As I handed him the check for the work he had been doing for us he paused before folding it neatly and putting it in his shirt pocket. “Are you happy [...]
Listen to “All In Good Time.” It’s a familiar scene made even more so by movies and novels: the reading of the last will and testament. The somber family is seated [...]
Listen to “The Great Divide.” While guaranteed to be controversial, Michael Gerson’s essay The Last Temptation in the April issue of The Atlantic has captured 150 years of [...]
Listen to “What Would Billy Do?” One of the sadly comical and widely reported details of the second 2016 Republican debate was the number of times each candidate quoted Ronald [...]
Listen to “A Fool’s Errand” In the Baptist church where I grew up, we heard rumors of “intellectuals” lurking in the world beyond our safe fellowship who relished the [...]
In his book, “The Greatest Generation” Tom Brokaw wrote, “At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the [...]
