At six years old, Tom Monaghan watched his mother walk away, leaving him and his brother at a Catholic orphanage in Michigan.
She wasn’t abandoning them. She was trying to survive after their father died. But Tom didn’t know that.
Days before Halloween in 1979, my wife, Dallas Morning News reporter Judy Williamson, met famed author Stephen King at Dallas Love Field. It is one of the few interviews he has ever granted.
King met her on a layover while promoting his fifth book, The Dead Zone.
What Judy learned was more surprising than the plot twists in his horror novels.
King directly and indirectly suggested four charms for a successful career and, believe it or not, a cheery life.
Continue Reading “Stephen King’s Four Charms for a Successful Life” A friend recently told me, “I feel like quitting. I’m tired of being told things will work out in the future, that relief is out there somewhere. Just give me the keys. Drive away. Leave everything behind.”
And then I told him the amazing turnaround story of Edwin Booth, the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
If anyone could ever justify quitting, it was Edwin Booth.
Continue Reading “How the Best Keep Going and Never Give Up” Whatever hole or pit you’re in is not permanent.
Unless you want to stay there.
And many folks do.
The deeper the hole, the greater the resistance.
But anyone can climb out if they open three hatches.
Continue Reading “How To Blow Out of Your Hole”