Keep Your Goals in Front of You I have the best job as a commercial airline pilot. I’ve been flying for more than 30 years. My job has taken me around the world flying various aircrafts including the Boeing 767, 757, 737, Airbus 320, Lockheed L-188 (civilian P-3) and Convair 580. My book, Remove Before Flight is […]
Loving What I Do When my parents told me I was having a little brother, I was sitting on the floor playing with a lunar module. I remember wanting to get it to work, more than I wanted to have a little brother. I didn’t want to go to college, I wanted to go into […]
You have to have a vision to be successful While in my 20s, I was interested in photography when the Single Lens Reflexes were coming into being. I worked at McDonnell and Douglass which had a photography club. We met at a Baptist church in the evening and talked about photography techniques. What made you […]
Your life’s happiness depends on you I attended the same high school military academy, like my father and brother. I graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis. As an ensign, I navigated a jet aircraft for more than a year, and then navigated 300 marines to Vietnam. Just before I entered Vietnam as a conservative […]
Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes I always wanted to be thin and to be a successful singer. My weight problem began in childhood. Most of my life I have been either chubby or obese. What made you decide to finally realize your lifelong dream? Due to health problems, and being middle-aged and on medications that […]
Reveling in the Divine I have been a student of The Shroud more than half my life. It was 1978 and I found myself with a strong desire to visit the Shroud of Turin. I had first read about it when I was 26 in the August, 1971 issue of Esquire magazine. There was an […]
You have to do the work When I was about five or six, I used to watch the TV show Three’s Company. I used to think, ‘Where is this place where you can ride your bike along the beach?’ I lived in the Detroit area and I loved the show because I wanted to be […]
If they can do it…I can do it Since the age of about 13 or 14, I wanted to live in Europe. I originally thought about France, but the idea was to live in a country where they did not speak English. I wanted to live among the locals as a local. This would not […]
Have faith in your dream I have loved family history for years and have researched my own family since I was 13. I always wanted to spend more time on it, but I never thought I would be able to make a living doing it. I have now established myself as an expert in forensic […]
Stay in the Batter’s Box and Keep Swinging… I always wanted to be the head or founder of a humanitarian advocacy project. In 2013, 46 million Americans had to go to food kitchens which are often flooded with donations during Thanksgiving and Christmas. There’s a food deficiency 365 days a year. It’s a problem. There […]
Don’t Give Up On Your Dream I dreamed of going to Africa until I was 53 years old. When I was 10 and growing up in Canada, I saw a National Geographic magazine which featured cheetahs in Kenya. There was a picture of a cheetah chasing a gazelle. Once I saw that picture, I fell […]
If You Don’t Live Your Dream, You’ve Lived Half a Life I grew up in LaHabra, California, an Hispanic neighborhood, but never truly learned to speak Spanish. It was my dream to learn the language and to love the Mexican culture. What made you decide to finally realize your lifelong dream? In the schools where […]
