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Burn The Ships
Today is the fifth anniversary of the passing of my father. He would be 100. I am well aware of the great blessing of having him as my Daddy. His story is one of hard work and success. He started off dirt poor, worked his way through college, served as a county...
Carrying The Cat by the Tail
Oh, how I hope this title doesn’t get me in trouble with animal lovers. For the record, we have a cat and a dog and love them both. I never, ever carry Millie by the tail. When I started on my current journey, I planned to post updates and other thoughts regularly,...
Eight Days to Remember
About my week at Tennessee's AgLaunch Bootcamp! I recently spent eight intensive days learning about starting an ag tech business, the state of agribusiness and the ornamental horticulture industry. I have met great people who are passionate about agriculture and...
Conflict, Friction and Vibration
I've often heard that I think and behave like an engineer. It's a good thing, I think, because I spent many years studying to become an engineer. I remember coming home from college complaining to my Dad about how hard my thermodynamics and differential equations...
What’s Your Number?
Engineers, mathematicians and scientists are likely all familiar with an important imaginary number. An equation ends up having the square root of negative 3 in it. A negative number can't have a square root can it? So ingeniously, someone decided to start using...
Why am I Writing This Blog?
Someone asked me recently why I am writing these posts. Well, it's not too complicated really. I have always enjoyed discussing ideas. I like sharing thoughts and hearing others' thoughts as well. Now that I'm working mainly from my home and not in the office setting...
Why Agriculture?
After 28 years away from an agriculture career, I am returning to this industry. You might ask why I am returning at this point? Well, as the saying goes, if you like to eat, thank a farmer. Big or small, thank a farmer. As the population of the planet grows, we...
Something Simple for Spring
Ok, forgive the alliteration please. Spring is almost here and it's time for those of us who like to garden to get some huge doses of soil and sun. (Last alliteration. I promise.) So, today's post is seriously simple. (Ok, no more.) No deep philosophical stuff...
The First Step
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Laozi After several months of considering life and career and with a huge amount of prayer and preparation, I took a giant leap for this man (with apologies to Neil Armstrong). I left a perfectly good paying...