Sept. 15, 2010 Two weeks ago, I began my final semester at Elon University. The first class I had this semester was Oral History of North Carolina Women. Now, I haven’t taken a history class since my junior year of high school and I was worried about taking an upper level history class. But immediately, [...]
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Always listen to your mother
Posted in Life lessons on September 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Be a good friend
Posted in Life lessons on August 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Aug. 24, 2010 Throughout my life, I feel that life has thrown some challenges in my face. At some points there were some moments when I felt like I couldn’t catch a break. But right now in my life for the past few months, I felt as if I was turning a corner. I am [...]
Faith
Posted in Life lessons on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Aug. 23, 2010 When I was at dinner on Saturday night celebrating my friend’s 21st birthday, something at the table next to me caught my eye. There were a group of six people sitting at the table next to us. As soon as their food arrived to their table, they all held hands and said [...]
Catching up on life lessons
Posted in Life lessons on July 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
July 28, 2010 I’ve been on vacation for more than a week now, but I’m back and will be posting a few things that I learned on my past few adventures. My trips began on Friday, July 16th when I headed up to Washington D.C. I stayed for a few hours with some friends and [...]
Forgiveness
Posted in Life lessons, tagged Ed Thomas, ESPYs, forgiveness, life lessons on July 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
July 14, 2010 The ESPY awards tonight, featured many highlights, but one moment that I will never forget. Each year there is a recipient of the Arthur Ashe award for courage. In the past Jim Valvano, the Tillman brothers and most recently Nelson Mandela have been recipients of this award. But tonight, a family that probably [...]
Take a break
Posted in Life lessons on July 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
July 13, 2010 The MLB All-star game took place tonight with the National League finally winning a game against the typical power house of the American League. While in recent years the game has become more competitive than it should be, I thought that it was nice that these players got a break. Now if these [...]
Being alone
Posted in Life lessons on July 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
During the summertime, I have a lot of time to myself. People constantly ask me if I mind it because to most, they would hate the life I lead. But, I learned something last summer that I have carried with me the rest of my life. Lesson No. 11: Being alone with your thoughts is [...]
Good Samaritans
Posted in Life lessons on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
July 11, 2010 Yesterday (yes this post is a day late), I attended a small mass at Holt Chapel on Elon’s campus, with a great man, Father Gerry. After the readings, Fr. Gerry talked about good Samaritans and the role they play in our lives. Immediately I thought that he was going to tell us [...]
Great movies inspire
Posted in Life lessons on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
July 10, 2010 This weekend one of my favorite movies was on TV, Coach Carter. The movie was released in 2005 and is about a basketball coach comes back to coach his former high school in basketball, Richmond. The school was stricken with poverty with many of the students not graduating and most certainly not [...]
Passion
Posted in Life lessons on July 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
July 9, 2010 Lesson No. 8: Embrace your passion I am lucky, fortunate and blessed. I have discovered several passions I have in my life and I know I am in select company in this world. We constantly see or interact with people that just seem empty and don’t have that fire or something that [...]
