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 …

We are living in a time when it seems we try to do everything as fast as possible. Last night, we were driving home from a meeting in a neighboring state. We were on a major highway here in the northeast, and we were traveling five-miles-per-hour over the speed limit. I looked in my sideview mirror and told my wife …