Staying Off the Piano

High school reunions are a unique experience.   When you attend your 10th year high school reunion celebration, the dynamic is driven by the energy, hope and dreams of a room full of 28-year-olds who feel bulletproof.  Attendance is typically good.  Graduates are...

Your Last Day?

It seems like only yesterday that I was sitting in front of my Western Union teletype in the police press room, a man in his mid-20s trying to make sense of something that made no sense at all – the death of five children in an apartment fire caused by adult...

All Is Well

Posted  from Tyler, Texas On the day we are born, scientists tell us, we begin to die. Death at an early age is a tragedy.  The death of a baby with an irreparable defect is heart wrenching.  A teenager who dies in an accident is shocking, filling us with a consuming...