Insights

For every finish–line tape a runner breaks—  complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras—there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about. -Grete Waitz For basketball fans,…

And I’ll stand there with the Wizard…When people see me, they will scream for half of Oz’s favorite team: The Wizard and I! –Elphaba, Wicked—The Broadway Musical For those of you not familiar with the storyline of the Broadway musical…

A place where there isn’t any trouble.  Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto?  There must be.  It’s not a place you can get to by a boat or a train.  It’s far, far away.  Behind the moon,…

“Oh troika, winged troika, tell me who invented you? Surely, nowhere but among a nimble nation could you have been born in a country which has taken itself in earnest and has evenly spread far and wide over half of…

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than what others are saying. -Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld We are overwhelmed by silence!  The quarter ended…

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. -Jonathan Swift It is football season, and in the South we take our football seriously.  Regardless of whether one is talking about a group of seven year olds running…