It goes something like this, “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.  If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.  God bless Mommy, Daddy, Mark, Brett and Granny.  Amen.”  Simple. I recited that prayer thousands of times as kid.  It comes to my memory today as clearly as it did those many thousands of … [Read more...]

“There’s a tool for that.” I can’t tell you how many times I heard my Dad say that. And in the oddity of life, no matter what task we had to do there was a tool for it; not just some tool but a specific tool. Someone, somewhere, at some time had faced whatever challenge we were facing and had designed a tool to get it done with a fair amount of … [Read more...]