Ninety-six years ago today, on Feb. 26, 1916, Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. was born at 364 Chauncey Street in Brooklyn, New York. Not long after, he was baptized John Herbert Gleason, but for those of you old enough to remember…
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Embracing Change Through Faith
I always wanted to be a surgeon. Really, I did. In fact, I wanted to be a bioengineer - that's a doctor who is involved in the design, building and perhaps even use of state of the art medical devices.…
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Tonight is a tough night to write a post. Because many people I care about are hurting this evening and there is only so much I can do about it. Several of those people are folks who read these posts…
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Several days ago, I wrote about the reach of Transitions and let you know that we were making progress across the world, and in 49 of our 50 states, but that North Dakota was a holdout. I sent out a…
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These were the final words spoken by Scott Carpenter, the back-up pilot and capcom (capsule communicator) for Glenn's historic flight fifty years ago today, one day after my 9th birthday on Feb. 19, 1962. The third of seven Mercury astronauts,…
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