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16 Minutes with First Lady Michelle Obama! Part 4 – Final

MEETING #4 – 7 minutes 30 seconds Alice and I were fortunate to ride from the Hillside community center event in the First Lady’s motorcade to the United States Olympic Committee’s Training Center. Now, we were NOT in the First Lady’s car, we rode with Senator Michael Bennet another honor in itself. I had not been in a fast moving motorcade since I represented the United...

16 Minutes with First Lady Michelle Obama Part 2

MEETING #2 – 30 seconds The next night was the State Dinner.  I was so excited to attend.  I really did not know what to expect.  I just heard from all sorts of people that this was the hottest ticket in DC. I picked up Alice from the Airport and then back to the hotel where we got gussied up. Both April Holmes and the First Lady were right. Alice looked stunning in the dress she selected.  I...

The Non-Marginalized Father

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” – Charles Wadsworth My Dad, Rev Donald B. Register, is one of those men who parallel a vocal, reasonable and silent leader. I am very fortunate to have grown up with a man who was part of the cloth but at all times a father to his children.  He parented three boys to the...