I remember the following life lesson in all its glory; let me paint the picture for you.   I was playing downstairs in the basement getting ready for the wonderful summer life a kid gets to have after finishing the 3rd grade.  

What does my message, Share Emotions, Emotions Matter mean to a room full of students whose main job is to create a new look, cut, or style for their costumers?

I met Kyle years ago while I was still in college.  We met through a mutual friend who thought we would get along. How that first meting went is a story for another day, but over the years a life long friendship has developed.  To say Kyle marches to the beat of a different drum is the cheap way to describe him. It’s just difficult to find the right way to describe him. 

“Enjoy your journey? What does that mean?”

I turned my mom's advice into a way to reach youth, a little statement Mama Derryberry says....

A short re-cap of my weekend get together with my friends, and a reminder on how friendship replenishes the soul. 

A letter from a colleague who finally heard my talk 

This day was all about my future. I was public speaking at the 29th Risky Business Conference in a break out session in Ames, Iowa on the Campus of Iowa State University.  I have never spoken in Ames before, so I was breaking ground in a new area. So how did this become about my past