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Almost twenty five years ago, I carried nearly a ten pound baby down the hall in the hospital to be weighed for the first time. Her name was Madison Elizabeth Cutherell. All I knew was that she was the most beautiful baby girl I had ever seen. Part of me was full of excitement and part of me was full of fear as I knew my life would never be the same. Today as I write my blog I am only three days away from her walking down the aisle and getting married. Where in the world d

Everywhere I turn this holiday season it seems as if I am greeted with some kind of change. It seems the harder I try to make Christmas look like something I know, the more it has a life of its own. I have had a lot of Christmas rituals in my life. I started out with the all American Christmas when I was a kid complete with Santa Claus, a Christmas eve church service, a one-package opening after church, and an abundance of gifts on Christmas morning. I was very blessed gro

Have you ever noticed how everybody else in the world is rigid except you and you are flexible, adaptive, and most of all cooperative? My journey exactly. I love change and am so flexible it amazes me that anyone would think that I was rigid….right. Ever happen to you? Happens to me… and what I notice is I am the most flexible when I WANT THE CHANGE. So what happens when other people want a change that I am not ready for or the change is someone else’s idea that affects

For all that is being said out there about 2012, I definitely do not believe that the world is coming to an end in December of this year. I also believe that there is a lot of wisdom and merit to changes that are coming. When I first heard about 2012, all I heard about was how we were going to have this cataclysmic event that was going to be apocalyptic in nature and could possibly end civilization as we know it. Not knowing the future, all any of us can do is to share with

Whoever I talk with these days all say the same thing……there is A LOT of change going on right now. I can feel it. The first thing that has come to mind lately is 2012. I wrote about it last week and it still is finding space in my life. I have been fascinated with 2012 ever since I heard about it years ago. I am fascinated with how a time in my life is so studied and so controversial. I have friends that have moved “off the grid” and are determined that a cataclysmic ev

Give peace a chance is an interesting idea coming from the basketball player who was one of the main combatants in the worst athlete-fan brawl in NBA history. It is not easy to see this man as a 6’7”, 260 lb Gandhi…..this man is formerly known as Ron Artest. Ron Artest legally changed his name this year to Metta World Peace. Metta, a Buddhist word meaning “loving kindness” and world peace speaks for itself. Part of his thinking was that people might be positively affected

Sometimes my biggest gifts come in the smallest packages…….meet my buddy Colten. Colten is the grandson of my friend (and bass player in my band, The Rafters) David Petry. I met Colten a few years ago and he has been a gift to me in so many ways, the biggest is how he sees the world. Colten is 7 years old and has cerebral palsy, yet you would never know that by his attitude. He loves life, horses, music, his grandfather and most of all he LOVES The Rafters. He has memoriz

Feedback was considered a negative thing in the music world until Jimi Hendrix came along. When Jimi was recording with the BBC in London, he would turn his amplifiers up all the way and create feedback from his amp. The recording engineers were frustrated and told Jimi “We cannot get that feedback out of your sound, you will have to turn your amp down.” Jimi’s reply was “that is exactly the sound I have been going after, just record it.”……….the rest is history. My life is

It amazes me how certain lyrics get stuck in my head for years. I can distinctly remember seeing my first Sammy Hagar MTV video called “I Can’t Drive….55”. I loved the song and the video and I loved the image of Sammy being in a red Ferrari stuck behind a truck that he cannot pass while singing…. “I can’t drive….55”. Fast forward about 30 or so years. This week I turned 55 years old and for some reason that song has been playing in my head for weeks. I knew when my birthd

I have spent the better part of the last 20 years looking for tools to explain human behavior. Over the years, I researched and became certified in 3 major personality instruments and have studied many other theories, archetypes, and models. It amazes me when I can sit with someone and they can look at my physical body (or parts of it) and can get the same information. What I have learned about human behavior is that we trust machine more sometimes than we do our own intuit