COWPhilosophy

When last we left me (MindShare: Beginnings), I was graduating from college and determining the person I wanted to be in my new world. My “social” world for the last four years had been buried in study while raising my 5-year-old son (now 8), and before that, eleven years in the Army as an interrogator. Now at 34, I was preparing to start my new life and enter the corporate world. Seems simple, joyous in fact, and it was. But I felt a responsibility to myself to set a moral s

Just out of high school in 1971, I thought my future was set—sex, drugs and rock and roll. What’s not to like. After half a year of nothingness, my dear mother said “You need to go do something with your life.” Well, I went and joined the Army. Early on, I decided I wanted two things to make myself better: physical fitness and faith in God (what soldier wouldn’t want these given the Vietnam War was still raging). I started to work out with weights, and my parents had put fai