I tend to keep things close to the vest and not let too many people into my world. Where do you stand?

I am in a series of blogs I am calling The Marks of a Human, Being.  In this sharing I hope to share with you some of my convictions...

A Human, Being All of us are human beings, but how many of us are humans, being? Over the next few posts I want to dedicate this space to...

My children, all of them, are special.  Alexis is my most misunderstood daughter.  If you took a picture of me at 15 and Alexis at 15,...

I can’t quit crying. I sat at my dad’s grave the other night as dusk approached and I thought my entire body would empty of its contents...

I am thankful today. Now, do not get me wrong – I have plenty to be forlorn about, even fearful. I am choosing to be thankful, though....

It’s only been five days, but I miss my dad. J Roland Underwood, my father, passed away very unexpectedly last week. He was 71 years...

Recently, I was speaking with a friend who told me about a paper their son wrote for a school project. The child was about fourteen when...

I am headed east. Less than an hour ago the wheels underneath me left the ground, the wings caught the air and I was headed out of...

It is Saturday morning after a Friday night. I drove through the streets of the city alone last night. I looked at lights, at people, at...

Here I am at 36,000 as I am leaving Costa Rica. What a wonderful time and trip in so many ways. I wish you all were with me. In Costa...

I am a father of three wonderful daughters, ages 25, 18, 15. It is an unfamiliar feeling to release them into adulthood a little at a...

It has been a couple of weeks now, but I still feel it. The ‘joy’ factor that I wrote of previously is still intact.  Still no change of...

I do not know the name of the mountain, but I do know it was covered with snow. I had to leave the gathering this afternoon and return to...

Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains...

These are some random pictures from Punta Leona, Costa Rica at the 2007 Catalyst International Leadership Retreat

one ocean, three days, forty-three humans, thousands of plants, trees & flowers. they all came together for a wonderful experience in...

Okay, we are here…between the jungle all around us and the deep blue sea. It is day two of our three days together at Punta Leona and all...

well, well…. i am writing two days in a row! can we believe it? today is the seventh day of august in the year two-thousand seven. that...

Off once again to San Jose. I think it was Glen Campbell that once sung, “Do you know the way to San Jose?” I think he was singing of...