
Author Archives: Todd Gaddy
The Public Speaking Waltz (Verse 2)

I mentioned it in the first post of The Public Speaking Waltz, but it’s worth repeating… nerves are an expected, normal part of speaking in front of an audience. If you’re a speaker and you’re not a bit nervous before delivering your message, it’s probably time to stretch yourself with developing a new talk. Continue reading
The Public Speaking Waltz

Have you ever read one of those fill-in-the-blank-phobia lists?
Who knew there was scriptophobia – fear of writing in public? (Did those two lines just prove I’m not affected?) Not surprising however, is the existence of Continue reading
The Most Powerful Thing We Still Possess

We’re not hostages.
We’ve not been stripped of our freedom. Circumstances can’t do it. Uncontrollable elements of our past can’t do it. We still cling to an ability. Continue reading
(1/20) Loving Someone Difficult

Invisible Good

I had just graduated from college. Law school was in my future. After untold hours of preparation, application-completing, essay-writing, hundreds of dollars of fees, and not a few prayers, I waited for the answers to come. Continue reading
Three Things Worth Guarding Forever

Twenty-one steps. A crisp about-face. A pause for twenty-one seconds. Then twenty-one steps in the new direction.
Then it’s repeated. For thirty minutes. Then a changing of the guard, and a new man begins his watch. Continue reading
In Desperate Need of a Blizzard

Nearly four years have passed, yet I can still smell the road salt.
Dateline: February 2010 – a month of shoveling, aching backs, and memories. Continue reading
A Cell Phone Holiday

Cell phones bug me. I know, everybody has one and we seemingly can’t live without them, but what exactly did we do before cell phones?
I can’t help but think about this conundrum while traveling. Continue reading
(1/13/14) The Pursuit of Exact Duplicates
