Tribute to Dale Gwilliam

A tribute is “an act, statement or gift that is intended to show gratitude, respect or admiration”.  This blog entry is a tribute to the good of Dale Gwilliam, my father.
For years when I was young my father and I ran the canal banks of Tempe, Arizona together, and we competed in 10k races.  I [...]

The Value of a College Education

When I started my first company, about 10 years ago, I dropped out of school and moved back to Arizona. My father gave us a file storage area that was about 12′ x 5′ that we used as the corporate offices for Adoption.com. I got free rent living at home and mooched food off my [...]

Why Bill Gates is Going to Heaven

My favorite scripture is James 1:27 (KJV) “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” I believe that the point of religion is not to spend a lifetime going to church or studying [...]

No Two People Agree All The Time

Recently, a large adoption organization hired a new president. A few months ago I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and several members of his staff while attending an adoption tradeshow in Texas. I stick out a little in the child welfare community because of my conservative political views in a [...]