Category: General features

Driving away the tears in India

Five days in India recently left me with many stories to share. The most touching interaction came about with my driver for the week. His name is Raj. He is 30 years old, he has a three-year-old daughter, and he is very sad. His wife of 10 years died three months ago, leaving him to

Mike Newman – entrepreneur with a mission

By Tom Mueller Mike Newman is an entrepreneur on a mission these days. Known by a growing number of Texans as the man who built his own castle in the Texas countryside, he’s now diligently building a business around the castle and attracting thousands of visitors a year to the small town of Bellville. And

I hated guns. Guns kill people. But then…

Tania Weber recounted those words to me recently at an IDPA shooting competition when I asked what got her into competitive shooting. A petite and intense 36-year-old mother of two, she had joined the competition to help hone her gun-handling skills and to get in some practice with one of her handguns. Tania wasn’t always