Jun
24
2019
This past Thursday the NBA gave us five continuous hours of drafting 60 fine college basketball players for a possible future with its professional teams. If you asked the players if they thought this consideration was worth it, I...
Jun
22
2019
"We should have won that game.” - New York Mets Terry Collins
Reading USA Today Sports, Bob Nightengale’s interview with Manager Collins brought me back to the Royals-Giants game 5.
Matt Harvey took a 2-0 lead into the ninth. Collins was...
Jun
21
2019
Saint Ignatius trained his Jesuit priests to be aware of and to recognize the difference between consolation and desolation.
The bad news when experiencing the delight of being in consolation is that at any moment desolation is coming. When...
Jun
20
2019
Key Statement: It's so simple, yet so hard to do; open ears and mouth shut!
Three keys:
Slow to speak
Quick to listen
Slow to anger
Telling people to shut up is not acceptable in the Crowell household. This is rude...
Jun
19
2019
It seems comparison has crept into every area of our lives prompted by social media and constant media ads. It can reveal a dissatisfaction and a disillusion. It can divide and destroy. Placing ourselves alongside another person, evaluating similarities...
Jun
18
2019
COMPARISON leads to death; GRATITUDE leads to life. COMPARISON leads to depression; GRATITUDE leads to satisfaction. COMPARISON leads to arrogance; GRATITUDE leads to humility. COMPARISON leads to self-degradation; GRATITUDE leads to positive self-assessment. It surely seems COMPARISON and GRATITUDE...
Jun
13
2019
As a great, successful Spokane entrepreneur, here is Eric Hixson's story.
As a boy, Eric Hixson loved the scouts. To pay for his scouts' summer camps, he sold lots of candy, more than all the other scouts. One year he...
Jun
12
2019
The sword that conquered the world.
From the time I was a small boy I have been fascinated with knives and swords. So much so, in fact, my son Jay and I began a knife collection 30 years ago and...
Jun
10
2019
Be it Spain, Italy, Arizona, England, Seattle, Greece, New York or wherever, Mrs. C is ready to go places! However, Coach C is not so enthused about going places unless it is in his Toyota Rav 4.
For years, it...
Jun
08
2019
If you happen to miss an athletic game, I imagine you would want two questions answered: "Who won?" "What was the score?" The scoreboard would tell us which team won, which team lost. It would not tell what individual...
