My younger brother Sam, who is a professional musician, suggested a few years back when Ray and I were visiting him and his then girlfriend Jaime in Nashville that he and I should write a song together. We agreed that I’d write the lyrics and he would add the music and do the singing. I…

Early this morning, my brother and his wife Jaime were asleep in their home in East Nashville, Tennessee when a tornado struck in their neighborhood. Sam said they went to sleep not knowing there was a tornado warning, but that “wind, rain and lightning kicked up” just as they were going to bed. He said…

I had an impromptu call from a student this evening who is applying to law school. “I just need two minutes of your time to read over my essay, ” he said. Two hours and twenty minutes later, we said good-bye. What happened in-between? We went line by line and unscrambled any confusing sentences, removed…