After a decade of writing, editing, procrastinating, and working on other things, James Curtis has finally published his debut novel, First Sight. Available now on Amazon.com, and soon on Apple iTunes/iBooks as well as BarnesandNoble.com, the novel is the first of a long-planned trilogy (or more) called “The Kerr Chronicles.” Each novel follows the Kerr […]
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First Sight Now Available on Amazon.com
October 6th, 2013 · Comments Off on First Sight Now Available on Amazon.com · Character, Fiction, Leadership, Religion, Values
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Quiet Cal ran deep.
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Quiet Cal ran deep. · Politics, Values
President Calvin Coolidge was known for being a man of few words. The story is told of a Sunday when Mrs. Coolidge was ill and the President went to church alone. Upon returning from the service, Mrs. Coolidge is said to have asked her husband, “What did the pastor talk about today?” “Sin,” replied Mr. […]
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Pride & Vanity
January 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Pride & Vanity · Spiritual Journey, Values
The late Fuller Seminary professor of theology and ethics, Lewis B. Smedes, makes a powerful point that’s worth pondering and acting upon: “Pride in the religious sense is the arrogant refusal to let God be God. It is to grab God’s status for one’s self. In the vivid language of the Bible, pride is puffing […]
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Words for Our Time
January 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Words for Our Time · Character, Values
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles. – Gandhi
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The Panic of 2008
October 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Panic of 2008 · Character, News, Politics, Values
Panic. Shouting fire in a crowded theater. Being caught doing something you know is horribly wrong that you thought no one would ever catch you doing. Greed. When enough is never enough. Wanting more and more, convincing yourself that you deserve more. Arrogance. Twenty-somethings full of themselves on Wall Street, roaring through their naivety in […]
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Greed & Trying Times
October 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Greed & Trying Times · Money, Values
These are trying times. Add to the long list of uncertainties the economy. It seems $700 billion won’t buy what it used to buy, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has now dropped 1,400 points in the last week. The DJIA is now below 10,000 for the first time since October 2004. Recession is out […]
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Has Anything Changed?
August 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on Has Anything Changed? · Spiritual Journey, Uncategorized, Values
Forty years ago Tommie Smith and John Carlos, teammates on the U.S. Olympic team, won gold and bronze medals in the 200 meter dash at the Games in Mexico City. Here is how Time magazine described the scene at the time: “‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’ is the motto of the Olympic Games. ‘Angrier, nastier, uglier’ better […]
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More Memories of a Great Man
May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on More Memories of a Great Man · Character, Friends, Spiritual Journey, Values
In many ways Clyde Cook’s life was defined by a little red wagon when he was just six years old. It was December 1941, the damage to the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor was done, and the Empire of Japan had turned its attack to Hong Kong. His father, a merchant ship captain, was away […]
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Warm Frost on a Winter's Day
February 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Warm Frost on a Winter's Day · Values
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy […]
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Scattershooting Again . . .
November 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Scattershooting Again . . . · Cancer, Leadership, Money, Politics, Spiritual Journey, Values
Scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to Ernest Aingely. . . . I sit tethered to my bag of Rituxan® as it slowly moves into my right hand and into my body. This is my first chemo in the infusion room of Texas Oncology at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. I think I should start a chain […]
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