Dave Branam was our next door neighbor, growing up on Main Street in Adel. As a young boy, I used to watch men and women come home from work, (it usually meant supper was soon to be served) and most folks came home looking like they did when they went read more…
Blog
June 2017
Is Kevin Durant the MVP of Vulnerability?
You don’t have to be a basketball fan to appreciate the beauty of the NBA basketball championships that ended Tuesday evening. First class athletes on both teams, playing the game at an almost unimaginable skill level was really human poetry in motion. As fans from both sides either celebrate (provided you’re read more…
Leadership Lessons from the Birth of the Bicycle
Two hundred years ago this week, Karl Freiherr von Drais, took the world’s first bicycle ride from Mannheim (Germany) to the Schwetzinger Inn, a distance of about five miles. Nevermind that Drais’s bicycle, called a Draisine, didn’t have pedals, (pedals weren’t developed for another fifty years); this mode of transportation was a read more…