I wouldn't call it religion. I call it a conscious contact with my Higher Power. I choose to call him God. I used to call him Glenn, but that used to piss him off!
Nothing can be considered final until Governor Bush places a phone call to the person he is selecting as his vice presidential nominee, and that has not happened yet,
I was really looking to being wanted . . . to have a place to call home and finish my career out,
Think of the early years of the answering machine on the telephone. You'd call someone, and at first you'd be annoyed that they'd have that annoying box answer the phone. Now, if a phone rings and rings and doesn't go to a message system, you think it is impolite.
You may call it push, being daring... what it boils down to is passion. Running your own business is all-consuming; both partners need to be driven by the same goal.
It was a real neighborhood school. I mean, we used to call it the Irish Catholic ghetto. And there is nothing ghetto about it, because as we realize now, we lived a very upper middle class lifestyle.