Sitting with family in Baylor’s impressive Ferrell Center, Carol and I watched Matthew, our third child, walk across the stage to receive his masters degree diploma in computer and electrical engineering with a secondary degree in mathematics. I will confess to getting a little emotional at...

  It seems like only yesterday that I was sitting in the football stands screaming my head off every time Marshall stepped onto the field. Oh yes, I cheered for everyone but my greatest thrill was when the Saints opted for the two-point conversion. Knowing that Marshall would...

I enjoy graduations a great deal. One of my favorite TV moments is in May when the Nightly News does a slideshow recap of many of the major university's graduations with excerpts from there speakers. Graduations are a milestone, a reminder of the passing of...