The Impact Blog

This past weekend Amanda and I attended her ten year reunion, just as we had attended mine. I have been to three reunions now, and have talked to some people about theirs. I am seeing some similarities. I feel qualified to tell you this..... Since most of you on MySpace may not have attended your ten year reunion, I will tell you exactly what will happen. All of this for free, in an easy 12 step plan... 1. First of all upon receipt of your invitation, years of memories, a flood of anticipation and an ounce of dread will bring back whatever insecurities you had. Perhaps opening the letter will provoke thoughts of vindication that your sucsses over the last decade will allow you to enforce. 2. If your a female (or to a lesser extent male) a crash diet/search for the "mythical" perfect out fit will begin. You will hop from store to store trying to find the outfit that will crop 10 pounds, add curves, vanish wrinkles, cure the common cold etc... You will wash your car for the fi...

Music City Miracle Evryday I have been running, training for my attempt at a marathon in January. Today 104.5 the Zone replayed the greatest games in Titans history in lew of regular broadcasting. They were counting them down 5th greatest to first. When it was time to run today I turned on my $5 radio from Walmart and listened to the game. It was the number one choice of the fans the infamous "Music City Miracle" game. For those of you unfamiliar with the game, the Titans won on a crazy play with 16 seconds left. It is considered one of, if not the greatest play of all time. The fans of the opponents the Buffalo Bills still protest that it was an illegal play. As a Titans fan I see it our way and no one can convince me otherwise, in fact I have probably watched the play 100 times and am confident the refs made the right call (sorry Bills fan). The irony here though is although this is remembered for being the greatest game ever, the game up till that point was a bit of a sno...

Rain It seemed like as a kid every time there was a day I was looking forward to was plagued by rain. The anticipation of a ball game, picnic, trip to "Opryland," rain, rain, and more rain. Now the reality is that the rain only came sometimes and in fact it rained probably about the same % on those days as it did on less important days. But that's not the point. In Micheal W. Smiths song "Alicia" there is a line I love..."Into every life a little rain must fall, when you loose someone you love it's like a storm, but storms are passing". I am not sure who came up with the concept of luck or who decided there were "bad days" as opposed to "normal days with bad things". Look we all have rain in our life. Bad things happen, things that shape us, hurt us, harden us, and drive us. Whoever came up with the concept of luck really screwed us up. I mean how many times do you have just incredible good luck that can match the ferocity of ...