Cultivate Courage Blog

“The world is full of lonely people waiting to make the first move,” Tony Lipp. I’m not going to tell you the context of this quote from the movie Green Book as I think you should see it. However, hearing this quote reminded me of a conversation I recently had with a...

Yes, the referees missed a call at the end of the Virginia/Auburn basketball game.                                                                                           The Auburn fans booed loudly and even threw things at the refs as they ran off the floor to the...

He laid on the floor distraught. He had to be helped up by his teammates. Ahmed Hill, a senior guard on the Virginia Tech basketball team, missed a wide open shot a foot away from the basket that likely would have sent their NCAA tournament game into overtime. The...

“Fear keeps us alive. Never not be afraid.” Those are the words of Grug, the father in the animated movie The Croods. I did a post on this movie a few years back. I watched it again the other night with one of my grandsons and had some more revelations from the...

This week is the beginning of March Madness, the annual run to the final four national championship in men's college basketball I enjoy watching as many games as I can and, very often, the situations in games remind me of both good and bad memories from my days of...

"But, I didn't do anything! It's not fair," proclaimed the young boy to his parents. The family was sitting right in front of me in church. Clearly, he had been aggravating and taunting his younger sister for much of the service. Because of the angle, mom and dad were...