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“Hey, when you ain’t got a choice, you might be surprised at what you can do.” This is what Rodney said to me one evening in the parking lot of an Autozone. I had recently met Rodney, a scrufty fellow who had maybe three full outfits to his name, no regular employment to speak…

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When I think about wisdom and how it is gained, I immediately go to personal experience and where I have failed to use wisdom or where I simply did not have wisdom. For instance, when a friend of mine and I were much younger, we thought we would have fun with some ground bees…

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It’s common to see players or teams call for timeout during the course of sporting events. In baseball, the catcher or manager may call timeout and go to the pitcher’s mound for a discussion on the best strategy for how to pitch to certain players. In football, we’ll see coaches call timeout to manage…