Moving to North Carolina
My wife and I moved to Wilmington last summer for no reason other than we like the area, the water, and the proximity to our daughter in Durham. After 50+…
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Politics 101: Leadership
I have an idea why America is so polarized, or one reason anyway. When you think about hiring a Congressman or a Senator or even a President, one of the…
Visit The Azores
My wife and I got to visit to The Azores with our daughter, her husband and his parents. The take-away from our trip was a new enthusiasm for all things…
17 years and counting, creating value for MLSs
I was doing some research online and found some old images of Charlottesville’s consumer website, mycaar.com. We built it for them in 2003 and it’s been up since then, delivering…
Monumental Huntsville
They finally did it, they moved the Confederate Monument to historic Maple Hill Cemetery into a more historically correct context. It now sits amid other memorials to soldiers who fought…
Free and Clear
Bill wrote a book! It’s really good too. He’s got a real talent for storytelling. The story is a really good one too and partially set at my house!
Meridian Street
There is a small community in northeast Huntsville called Lincoln Village. 15 years ago a good friend and pastor started a conversation with a little girl who turned into a…
Behold the Lamb
I really love the Christmas album and show from Andrew Peterson and friends called Behold the Lamb. If you don’t know it, add it to your Holiday Mix. Love this…
What if you could scholarship a kid to Lincoln for free?
What if you could redirect half of your taxes to your kid’s school? You can! We’ll sort of. In Alabama there is something called the Alabama Accountability Act and it…
Time of Transition
To the Lincoln Community, Staff, Faculty, Donors, Volunteers, Parents and kids. It is again my great pleasure to write to the entire community in my capacity as the Chairman of…
Ocular Melanoma, Five Years Out
This is Deadly, We’re Sorry So they started by saying “This is deadly, we’re sorry.” Five years ago today, February 23rd 2011 is a day that forever changed my life,…
The Land Trust & The Nature Conservancy
The outdoors are very important to me. I grew up on a farm north of Huntsville that was about 650 acres mostly leased out to a local cotton farmer called…
Mapathon for Downtown Huntsville
There is a new event coming up in Downtown Huntsville called a Map-a-Thon. It’s a competition put on by Downtown Huntsville, Inc along with several friends and partners, including Solid…
Pray for Ukraine
When I was 18 I went to Russia. It was 1983 and before the Berlin Wall fell and communist kleptocracy that was the old Soviet Block came crashing down. Like…
Happy 2014 Everyone!
The $$ spent on this could have feed everyone in South Sudan AND the Syrian Refugee Camps but (and that’s an Alabama-sized but) it is really, really awesome! Crazy. Visit…
