by Stepp Sydnor | Dec 10, 2018 | Personal
On the hit television show Survivor, contestants try to outwit, outplay, and outlast everyone else until they’re the sole survivor. Songs like Elvis Presley’s “Only the Strong Survive” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” are deeply embedded in our popular culture....
by Stepp Sydnor | Nov 5, 2018 | Personal
Dodging Danger Shock causes us to freeze the use of our gifts and talents because all we can focus on is dodging danger. A violent collision or a heavy blow causes the shock we feel. It’s natural to protect ourselves from this pain. There is a difference between...
by Stepp Sydnor | Oct 16, 2018 | Personal
From a tsunami in Thailand to Hurricane Katrina, from bombings in Iraq to an avalanche in the Himalayas, stories of miraculous survival seem to occur in every corner of our world. For most of us, being rescued from swelling flood waters or from the icy slopes of Mt....
by Stepp Sydnor | Oct 3, 2018 | Personal
Players Have a Kemosabe One of my favorite childhood shows was The Lone Ranger. This was a long-running early radio and television show about a masked cowboy in the American Old West who gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever American...
by Stepp Sydnor | Sep 25, 2018 | Personal
Actor or Director in Life? In the play, the actors were the ones that we could physically see and watch onstage. However, the director is behind the scenes and only mentioned in the show program. It was the actors who bowed at the end of the show and received the...