Change is sometimes very hard for me.  For a guy who never likes to do the same thing twice the same way -- I am often at odds with myself.  On one hand I know what I like, and I know what works. But I get bored… easily, so I change.

At any moment there are a number of emotions running through a person's mind and body.  Some are fun and whimsical and some are deep and meaningful.  Big life questions are very revealing to the mixed emotions a person has rushing at any moment of time.  I have most often chosen the fun, maybe silly and irreverent, attitudes about approaches to life and different situations.  Here are a few answers to some Big Life Changing Questions that communicates who I am and what I am thinking, (at least on the days I answered these questions).

1. Are you happy about where you are in your career?
I have been happily retired since the year 2000!  I spend a lot of professional and personal time using the skills and networks I established while working, to volunteer for various organizations and ministries.

2. Which of your family members are you closest to?
My wife, then my children, then my brother. But I'm pretty close to some of my former students and international friends like they were family.Copy goes here...

I don't remember which summer it was, probably the summer of 1980 or 1981. But I do remember it was the third week of June. Maybe June the 19th, now known as Juneteenth.  I was working at KATV channel 7 in Little Rock as a photojournalist. KATV was a local television station but was associated or affiliated with the ABC television network.
 
Like all TV stations, our revenues were based on advertising, and the advertising revenue was based on audience ratings. Great strategy and effort were put into programming and content creation during those times of the year deemed more important than other times of the year because that's when the ratings were measured. Nowadays, ratings are measured every day. At the time, four months out of the year, the ratings were measured of how many people were watching what, and we called it the Sweeps.

Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man.      Luke 2:52
When people ask me what “I do?”, I like to tell them “I’m a professional story teller!” I speak. I write. I’m a blogger, photographer, audio-recorder, rinse and repeat. I’ve worked as a broadcast journalist, photojournalist, speech writer, and a copy writer.

I’ve worked for publications,
         radio stations,
                   TV stations,
                            and advertising agencies.

Sometimes people think I'm a slow learner, and truth be told, I probably am. But as I planned my annual spring break mission trip with me and my students from Harding University, I learned a few things along the way that always made next year's trip a little easier.
 
One of those things was when we are enroute to our final mission site destination, we should fly from Belize City down to Punta Gorda where our mission was going to be.  In the past we had driven from Belize City to Punta Gorda or taken a commercial bus. That it's a long drive. But it's only about a 45-minute air flight.