Being away from home for the holidays is never easy and at 30 years old, this was the first time I wouldn’t be home to banter about what to cook, get up early and work as a family in the kitchen with a glass of wine, taste my 88 year old and going strong grandma’s dessert, or spend time reminiscing about our families past and chat about our future.

Everything ends, a simple fact that should guide our actions to work to keep good things going, and allow us to walk away from things that need to end. 

Every athletic event I participated in growing up, you could heard my mom on more than one occasion scream, "Woo, Woo, Woo, Woo,"

I was 19 and returning from Christmas break when I found out my college would be closing at the end of spring semester. I was back earlier than most of the student body due to being on the basketball team.

    The road to be successful can be filled with emotional swings of high and lows

I unveiled a 90 minute version of my talk on "Choices" in Lawler, Iowa today.

As they called out times as I ran past the two-mile marker, a guy on my left passes me pushing a stroller, a freaking stroller. 

 I still remember the room.  Everything was put in it's place and smelled of cleaning supplies. I was sitting in a pastor’s office waiting to give my pitch about why my talk would be good for his youth group and families.