I have had a few times in my life when I needed to move. The last time our family moved, I told my wife that I never wanted to do it again. That is all well and good, but we now have four adult children who have moved multiple times. Each time they have moved, they had many people promise …

When I started playing the trumpet in fourth grade, my band director told my mother that if I ever got serious, and really practiced, that I could be a good trumpet player. He also told her that if I didn’t … I wouldn’t. At the time, I didn’t like that man very much. You see, it was from that time …