Well Here Goes!

I volunteer at Antietam Battlefield on Sunday afternoons. We have a program called battlefield ambassadors where volunteers go out on the battlefield and answer questions and tell the story of the battle. Today was way to cold to be outside so I got the chance to work at the information desk inside the Visitor Center. I told my friend Mannie Gentile author of several wonderful blogs about my own plans for a blog and he suggested that I dive right in! What makes mine worth your attention? I am a collector of quotes. As I read books, I highlight the quotes and add the quotes to a database. For example, after reading Walter H. Hebert's autobiography of Joseph Hooker, I collected 21 quotes, mostly about Hooker, but also for some others like George Meade and Oliver Otis Howard. I use the quotes for some other leadership programs that I have developed in my real job with the federal government. But I thought that I would share some of these quotes here on my blog. As I get into this blogging thing more and more, I will add other features but for now, I will start with the quotes. I hope that I can make this a product that some of you out there will find interesting.