Don Owens

Opinions are my own and do not represent those of the companies or organizations I serve within.

Building Friendship During a Pandemic

In the twenty-six years of The May Club, a group I started in 1995 to invite men to join me on adventure trips, I’ve learned one leading...

Their Blood Runs Together

I was so wrong. For decades I bemoaned the lack of interesting history or the newness of events in the United States compared to Europe,...

Wading in The River Dispirited

A couple of weeks ago we had our last short cold spell. The wind howled out of the north and the temperature dropped to 39 degrees. I...

Something Great is Happening: The Great Pause

Something great is happening in this new environment. We are learning. We are learning more ways to serve those around us, and we are...

Another Pirate Looks at Fifty

“Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of...

A Friend of Patience

It was freezing outside in Northern Michigan last summer as Trevor Sabsook and I stepped outside to stare up the night sky. It was early...

People Been Friendly, But They'll Never be Your Friend"

“There’s people been friendly, but they’ll never be your friend. Sometimes this has bent me to the ground.” – Rich Mullins “Elijah” Each...

Full of Fears and Full of Hopes

Alexis de Tocqueville ends his 1840 review of American society “Democracy in America” by writing, “I feel full of fears and full of...