Music is a powerful force that can awaken the child in anyone. Writing an article on music therapy and PTSD recently, I thought back many a Christmas ago to when Isaac got his first guitar. Even though as his father I’m much older, the excitement he shows in these pictures…
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Whether or not large petals of white joy are falling at your home this Christmas, may the spirit in your midst be one of joy, peace, and thanksgiving for life’s most important things – family, faith, and living with purpose. I took these pictures on a weekend visit a few…
I want to thank Dr. Rodney Deaton for the gracious article he wrote about my keynote address at Purdue University’s Military Family Research Institute Battlemind Symposium IV. Here is an excerpt and please follow the link for the full article. It will motivate you on this Veterans day. We can…
I just returned from an amazing weekend with TV production students and their professor from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. They were gracious enough to make me their project for the semester! We shot at a friend’s home in Buckhead, in the college’s television studio, in…
I just had the honor to speak at the closing session of the annual Indiana State Judicial Conference in French Lick, IN at the historic French Lick Resort. There were almost 500 judges in the room from across the state of Indiana including the Indiana Supreme Court. For a man…
I wrote the song, Live Free or Die!, when I was volunteering in a maximum security prison. A man serving a life sentence told me he had found peace 10 years into his sentence while watching a bird flying through the bars of his jail cell. In that moment he…