At 85 years old I discovered a new passion – baking birthday cakes. And I stumbled onto it quite by accident. Our choir director Ray Wheeler signed us all up for a cake walk to raise funds for scholarships. I had no idea what a cake walk was but I knew that, as a member,
Although I don’t think I have any salmon blood in me, I seem to have spent most of my life swimming against the flow. Three of my lifelong passions are decidedly not in the mainstream … but they date back to my earliest years. Country Music My car radio is permanently tuned to Willie’s Roadhouse.
Do I miss it? Hardly. Still today, when Marie and I see a magazine rack, we look at each other, smile, and say, “Aren’t you glad we no longer care that our magazines are being buried behind the competition?”
A crazy thought in the middle of the night changed my life.
Jeff Clapper’s query I grew up flying in small planes with my dad. We usually cruised at about 9000 ft, which often meant a lot of bumpy flying in clouds. Sometimes I think about this as a metaphor for owning and leading a very small business like 8th & Walton, and I look enviously at
