What comes to your mind when you hear the word surrender? A white flag? An army laying down their arms? A criminal coming out with his hands up as the police close-in? Giving up? The word evokes [...]

Many years ago, a man in a sports car was behind me and my young family as we were driving home from the grocery store. He was clearly in a hurry, was following too closely, and even honked a [...]

Below me, waves from the Gulf of Mexico crash steadily upon the beach. To the east, the sun rises slowly, almost imperceptibly; right on time. My ears are full of the ocean’s persistent roar, [...]