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(Spoiler Alert: Scenes and general themes are discussed.) I don’t care how old you are. Go see Toy Story 3. My kids were close to the same age as the character Andy in the first Toy Story in 1995. They are now college age here in 2010, just like Andy in this movie. The Pixar…
If you’ve seen an Olympic relay race, you’re familiar with this concept. Four runners work together to win a race by running one segment each. Each runner carries a white plastic baton as they run, and must pass it off to the next in line before he or she can take off. As I learned…
My first volunteer experience was forced upon me. OK, maybe “forced” is too strong a word, but I didn’t exactly volunteer to volunteer. I was 10 years old and my brother Jeff was 11. Our mom was a psychiatric nurse at Extendicare, an assisted living facility in southern Indiana. My brother and I were off…
Clearing the bleachers could be a glorious description of a home run ball landing in the San Francisco bay outside AT&T park. In one of my childhood little league games, it meant something completely different. It was an important playoff game in the 12 and under division. Our Farm Bureau Co-op team was up against…
Among all the quotable quotes from the great and humble John Wooden, I was most impacted by his three simple rules for his players: 1) No tardiness. 2) No profanity. 3) No criticizing your teammates. These three simple rules have one thing in common… respect. Not just respect for authority, but respect for one’s peers. …
I sat next to a group of cacophonous card players on the train this morning. I have nothing against people socializing on a long commute, but they were shouting and laughing at FULL volume, as if there were no one else on that car working or sleeping. I asked myself (as I plugged in my noise-cancelling…