A good Samaritan on a dark, rainy Italian highway.

An old house. An old yardstick. An old legend.

Writing about sports sounds like a dream job to lots of folks. Imagine...going to sports games for free, sitting in the press box, access to the locker room, interviewing players and coaches and fans. Watching games, then writing about it. And getting paid, although not much, to tell the stories. What a life!

Except I hated it.

Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Veterans’ Day. The holy trinity of American patriotic holidays. As Independence Day approaches let us remember and think about the final clause of the thirty-one words of the Pledge of Allegiance. “With liberty and justice for all”.

A curly-headed girl from Belleville, Illinois, and an hour with Colin Powell...

Sometimes you've got big shoes to fill and eyes watching over you remind you of the right thing to do.

Some life lessons are hard. Ethical lapses by people you thought honorable are some of the hardest.

Tales are meant to be told, not read. There are few who cannot hear, although many who do not listen. And even more who read, but do not understand.

This podcast tells of old tales and new prophets.

(c) William L. Enyart
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Great mentors have blessed me through life with the occasional bits of wisdom that have proven benchmarks. Here are two of those hard-earned bits of wisdom and one lesson learned from them.