Happy Birthday, USA

Wishing you all the best Independence Day ever. May we all be free. May we all be brave. And may all of us who are enjoying the fruits of the struggle that leads to freedom be very, very grateful. Celebrate!

RoadTurn Time

I’ve always figured that someday I will have the time and money to live there–that log home on the lake, primary access by boat, separate writing and thinking loft with a magnificent view of the sky at night and the lake/forest during the day. Children and grandchildren diving off the dock into pristine waters, [...]

Freedom Banner

It’s tough to sit here in the USA and read about the struggle for freedom in Iran. Religious differences aside, we have common ground before us–freedom and justice for all. I pray for those who are standing up for their rights, and I pray that I would have the courage to do the same. [...]

Dumb and Dumber

Thank you to one of my favorite professors, Donna Trent, for sending me this. People starving in the city, while even the lawns get fed in the suburbs…
On our campus, there are acres of bottom land that would make excellent grazing and gardening space. Rather, the land is used year-around for baseball fields. The [...]

Perseverance

It was built by a relative of mine, a long time ago. A considerable amount of sweat and time went into moving it to its current location, atop Pine Mountain, in Kentucky. It ain’t much, but it’s there, and it will still keep you dry. I like that old cabin and hope to go [...]

Happy Birthday (Shavuot)

We recently held a Dedication Days event on the campus of our school. It was designed to celebrate our heritage as one of the earliest Kentucky missions. Several people, though, have asked what the hooplah was all about. Hasn’t the entire campus already been given over to God? And the centennial celebration was just a [...]

I dreamed a dream…

Okay, this morning, I finally watched the Susan Boyle performance on Britain’s Got Talent. Forgive me if I sound bitter, but the whole thing looks like a Simon set-up to me. No matter, she is talented and I wish her the very best. I especially like the song she sang: “I Dreamed a Dream.”
No doubt, [...]

Urgency: A necessary ingredient?

There are areas in my life (like my consumption of soda pop, for instance) that need correction. Somehow, though, knowing about a need does not always translate into doing something about it. Does a sense of urgency have anything to do with enabling change? Harvard professor, John Kotter, thinks so. In this video, he tells [...]

Paul Potts and Passione

Columbia plans to release Paul Potts’ Passione, the second album by the Britain’s Got Talent winner and newly acclaimed popera sensation. Paul will follow the precedent set by his first offering, One Chance, and include a mix of modern and classical works on this new release.

Top 40 Charts has this to say about Paul’s previous [...]

One small step for man…

I was thinking about Neil Armstrong’s “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” quote last night, as we looked for a likely spot to watch the launch of the space shuttle Discovery. At the end, I had a much deeper realization of what Neil was talking about.
We traveled to Florida over [...]

Paul Potts wins an Echo

Paul Potts, RoadTurn Man extraordinaire, took the award for Best International Male Artist in Berlin, Germany, at the Echo Awards. Read all about the trip (and a tip concerning the rumor of a new Paul Potts album in the works) on Julz’ MySpace blog. Here is a link to the news release: Paul Wins Echo. [...]

Self Motivation–is it only a dream?

I’ve been working on the Way of the Gap method of problem solving, and this morning I was faced with one of the biggest problems that regularly affront me: How do I do what I know I should, but don’t want to do? Call it self-motivation, the avoidance of procrastination, willing oneself forward–call it what [...]

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