This Saturday my little girl will attend her first dance.  It is a celebration with her classmates as they leave junior high and enter the world of high school.  I am very proud of my little girl, and see her beauty second only to her mother.  Madi is a product of a wonderful and loving mother.  She is so very blessed to have someone in her life like Heather that would give her life for her special daughter.  We are all a product of our mothers.  Good, bad or indiff...

As I reflect on this past Mother's Day and the wonderful privilege it is to honor the institution of motherhood I am taken back and humbled by the wonderful gifts that are my mother and my wife.  My mother raised two rowdy boys alone for many years and later lovingly struggled to keep a split family together.  She has touched more people with her life than anyone I know.  There is not a person in our family nor outside our family that has come into contact with my mom that di...