The Reward of Children

The Book of Psalm in the Old Testament of the Bible says that children are a reward, our heritage. This is unquestionably true with our son Morgan. He was in his second year of little league here in San Clemente when our family first became aware of the All American Boys Chorus, headquartered in Costa Mesa, http://www.taabc.org/ . We went to an orientation evening at the Chorus rehearsal hall. Morgan was apprehensive at first but soon we faced a difficult decision. Would Morgan continue with his baseball interests or switch over to the Chorus? He chose the Chorus and we have never looked back.

Morgan attends rehearsals in Costa Mesa and frequently goes there three times a week. In addition he performs in concerts throughout Southern California but that is not all. In the four years he has been a member of the chorus he has progressed through the ranks from a "white shirt," pledge, to a "blue shirt" in the training division, to his present status of "red shirt" signifying his membership in the concert chorus. He has learned to read music as he successively passed through four levels of music reading training.

Last summer Morgan was selected to tour Asia with the Chorus. The Chorus performed in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China, including Shanghai. The tour took nearly four weeks, from start to finish, and Morgan was only 12 years old at the time. We were so proud of him and so glad when he was home safely once again.

This summer Morgan is going on a tour of Western Canada and the Western United States. He will be gone for three weeks. The summer camp he attended last week was a lot about preparing the Chorus for the summer tour. This year at camp Morgan began learning to play the hand bells. He really seemed to enjoy it. We are very proud of what he has accomplished with his life already and the young man he has become.

Blogs are Work ... Tweets are Fun :-)

With great enthusiasm I began blogging a couple of years ago. I felt so x-gen. It turned out to be like my diets. Enough said? Well, today is the day that I begin keeping my blog up to date. One of my clients told me the other day it was the first thing she looked at when she went to my website. I could tell she was disappointed with my last posting from 2007! The fact that she told me I should update it or take it off my website turned out to be motivational.

I have also started "tweeting" on Twitter. I guess I like tweeting better than blogging because tweets are limited to 140 characters or so. Tweets just have to convey what I am doing now. Blogging, I think, requires me to share something more coherent. That feels more like a job. But I want to get comfortable and more adept at blogging, so here I am.

In this blog, I will catch you up to what going on with me in a tweet-style. My son, Morgan, just finished 6th grade. My wife, the principal of his school, is also about done for the summer. Actually, they are closing her school for good--so she is REALLY done. She has been job searching and interviewing like so many others in this economy. Morgan, the 2nd Tenor, is going to Chorus Camp next week. In a few weeks he leaves with the Chorus for a tour in Canada. Meanwhile, I am selling, selling, selling.