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“Coach, I need to quit the team.”, Murray sadly confessed. “What?  Why do you want to quit now?  We only have one tournament left?!”, I replied quite taken aback. “My self-image can’t handle losing anymore.”, he reluctantly expressed. Ok, how do I handle this? I had been coaching a high school wrestling team for 2 years and Murray was one …

Before I knew what was going on I was standing on the tarmac at the foot of the airplane stairway. What?  Are we the only ones?  What do we do? Then it happened… I looked up to see the Prime Minister of Canada and his wife waving to the media and descending the stairs toward me and my son. “Welcome …

It took far longer than I had anticipated.  The yard needed lots of leveling.  Lots! My standards were exacting so I had my crew doing what we needed to do in order to create exceptional results.  I wanted to make sure this landscape job was the best we could do. Two days into the job the owner of the landscape …

I could hear him before I could see him.  The siren pierced the air with a shrill tone that served to wake me up in the midst of an early morning drive. Glancing in my rear view mirror I now saw the flashing lights of the police car as it raced towards me at a high velocity.  I don’t know …

Have you ever done any archery?  Have you shot a bow and arrow? As an 11 year old kid at summer camp I had the opportunity to learn about archery.  Wow – high adventure for a boy to be given a deadly weapon to shoot projectiles into targets pinned to bales of hay. I can still remember the first time …