_ A few years ago, a new business book gained popularity with a very simple premise:  Know what you don’t know.  Or more simply, without knowing where you are ignorant, you cannot fill it with wisdom.  I apologize, that wasn’t any simpler. I never read the book, but a quick glance proved this struggle was [...]

- I have always enjoyed hope. Not in the deep spiritual sense, as in awaiting the great reunion with our Lord in heaven.  Something closer to a young boy shaking the boxes under the Christmas tree in early December.  Every fiber of his being quivering in anticipation, awaiting the great joy wrapped in red ribbons and shiny [...]