Words, and Why We Live by Them

Words, and Why We Live by Them

Before we get into it, on the very small chance that you’ve read any of my past work for The Pine Belt News under the byline “Finding Focus,” then you know I like to include some “theme music.” Hopefully, the lyrics are apropos of our topic. For this, I’ll be...
A BREAD Christmas

A BREAD Christmas

When I was about seven or eight years old, I woke early on Christmas morning, the air still tinged with the soft, sleepy blue of dawn. The house was quiet except for the faint creak of floorboards as I tiptoed toward the living room, drawn by the familiar glow of the...
A Thought on Entrepreneurial Success

A Thought on Entrepreneurial Success

You’ve thought about starting your own business, but you know the possibility of success is entirely unknown, and the consequences of failure are genuine and potentially very dire. Speaking only for my fellow Gen-X’ers, if we learned anything, it was this: “No one is...