"Just think about what you want to say…and then say it!” The quote above is one of the earliest in my memory from my dad. He used to tell my brother, sister, and me this all the time while we were growing up in North East Birmingham. If there is anything etched in my memory from my childhood, it would have to be the sights and sounds we encountered while hanging out with my dad in his downstairs office on Friday evenings. We could stay up late (10:00pm was late) because t