Did you know Greenland experiences winter conditions for the majority of the year? Heard about a city called Longyearbyen in Norway? This city experiences an average of 111 consecutive days without sunlight. Its something about the winter season that gives many people a dreary outlook. This past winter has definitely done a number on me; it has felt like one of the coldest winters that I have experienced since being in the Atlanta area. My negative feelings about winter were

On November 21st at approximately 6:58 pm, I was triggered. While in a parking lot, I had a conversation with a person. The conversation started getting tense and emotional over a matter that I believe was a misunderstanding or just taken too seriously. The other individual may view it differently, but I think we both would have agreed that as the tension rose, the conversation became dangerously volatile when it could have gone a different direction. But this is real life, a

Last month, I took my youngest son to Rodney Cook Park. I am very familiar with this park because about four years ago, my wife was commissioned to paint a mural there. The park is fairly new, only four years old, and I haven’t been there since the mural was unveiled. So I decided to check on the mural and let my youngest son play at the playground. The park was originally beautiful when it first opened up; the playground looked fun, the splash pad was awesome, and everything

No tiptoeing into this one. What’s going on with students bringing guns to school?! It feels like every time I turn on the news, I’m seeing a story about a student bringing a gun to school. Now, before I venture off into this candid conversation, let's speak the truth first. The majority of schools in the country are safe, and mass shootings committed by students are not an everyday occurrence. The crisis that we are currently facing is the growing frequency of students bring

Do you recall one of my previous blogs called “Cycles”? If you haven’t read it, go read it! I don’t write these for the heck of it....

Are you familiar with the phrase “It is what it is”? It's a pretty well-known and widely used phrase, but few people know that it was...