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I have a friend who is a retired athletic coach. She coached girls’ basketball for 40 years in Texas. She told me recently about the best piece of advice she ever received. She was taking a job in a small town in South Texas, and before she began, one of the boys’...

When Encouragement Can Lift Weight

I was thirteen years old, and it was May during my seventh-grade year. Our coach had gathered all of us seventh-grade boys in the high school field house, where the school’s only weight-lifting machine was located. It was hot as blazes. There was no air...

Aaron Sings; Nobody Cares

My son has a good singing voice and is musically talented. Still, I’ve never pushed him to get into the singing business. It is a tough field that can be very hard and discouraging. A case in point is a kid named Aaron. He was twenty and had been singing in...

Do You Have Chutzpah?

Have you ever heard of the word chutzpah? It is an old Yiddish word that describes someone who is audacious or has a lot of gall. Perhaps the best way to define it is through an old Yiddish joke. There was a man who murdered both of his parents. At his trial, he...

Derailed Plans

Will was a civil servant in the U.S. Government. He had a friend who was stuck in a dead-end job. He was bored with his work. He had a young family, including some toddlers, and wanted to expand his horizons before it was too late. He was considering law school and...