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Mike Lester • Illustration • • 17 views
What gets planned gets done. On New Year's Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played University of California in the Rose Bowl. In that game a man named Roy Riegels recovered a fumble for California. Somehow, he became confused and started running 65 yards in the wrong direction. One of his teammates, Benny Lom,…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 12 views
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been. On a cold December morning, dressed in a white execution gown, Fyodor Dostoevsky was led to the wall of the prison courtyard with the other condemned prisoners. Blindfolded, he waited for the last sound he would hear, the crack…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 6 views
Have you ever started something you couldn’t finish? I think this is a trait common to human nature. I heard of a youngster named Billy who said to his dad, “Daddy, Jimmy says that his dad has a list of men he can whip, and your name is the first one on the list.” So Billy’s dad went and confronted Jimmy’s…
Robby Roberson • Illustration • • 7 views
WELL DONE! Corporate Psychologist Tim Irwin tells this story about his son: “We were in the third round of the playoffs, football is big in Georgia like it is in Texas, and it was a classic Norman Rockwell night – everything was perfect. It was an incredibly hard fought game. Our son (who would also…