Devotional

This is the traditional Labor Day week-end, when America celebrates the workers of the nation and there are all kinds of lists like the greatest places to work that generate a buzz and stir competition among companies large and small…

Janet and I had some time on our hands this afternoon and drove north of our home into the rural country to visit a farmstand that we really enjoy going to several times during the summer. It's one of those…

I had an interesting experience today. I was driving in the car, alone with the silence and deep in thought, when I felt the urge to hear some music in the background. I had a four hour drive ahead of…

It's been another one of those busy days. I am finding it difficult to regulate my schedule in such a way as to have margin in my life. I thought I would be in town all week but it turns…

Last year on this day Janet and I were on a cruise in Hawaii. We had gone out several days in advance of boarding the ship in an effort to get accustomed to the time zone differences in anticipation of…

It was 41 years ago today, a Friday night at 7:00 pm at Trinity United Methodist Church, on the south side of Chicago, August 24, 1973, that Janet and I exchanged our vows uniting us as husband and wife. We…

Back in 1988, in our first eligible year, five years after we started the business in 1983, Toussaint and Company made the list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States. This annual listing of the Inc.…

It was 94 years ago today, on August 18, 1920, that Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote. Thus ended more than 70 years of planning and campaigning…

As I think you already know, I used to love to fish, but frankly, I was never very good at it and so more than two decades ago, I kind of gave it up other than on very rare occasions.…

Eighty years ago today, the island prison known as Alcatraz was opened and the first delivery of 137 prisoners arrived in San Fransisco from the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth. Alcatraz, because of its unique location in the middle of…