Last Friday, November 16, my bride, Ruth celebrated her birthday and ironically it was the day Steven Spielberg's movie "LINCOLN" was released. It was wonderful! I wrote two posts on FB earlier last week and blessed with over 100 comments. Some of you may know that in my family five consecutive generations of Washington DC [...]
It was my high honor to spend 12 glorious days in London for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games with LWFCI. A year ago in March (2011) I was one of two keynote speakers at the gorgeous Dallas Fort-Worth Marriott for the Texas Christian High School Athlete of the Year Awards. Approximately 1,250 were in attendance [...]
Today, (June 12) President George H.W. Bush turned 88 years young. Ironically, the picture shown is of President Bush with my father, Frank Shelton, Sr taken in January 1991 at the United States Capitol. It was his last State of the Union speech to the nation as president and this classic shot was taken with [...]
Back in October 2011, I called one of my childhood heroes and dear friend, MEADOWLARK LEMON. He answered the cell in his rich, deep voice and said: "Brother Frank!" It's a fact: "The Clown Prince of Basketball" always makes me laugh!! The Lord had laid him on my heart and I told him that the [...]
Today, we honor Dr King. His speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in my opinion was one of the greatest of all time. Jesus, with the Sermon on the Mount, President Lincoln at Gettysburg and this speech by Dr King was also one for the record books. A great speech moves. It moves [...]
Recently, my good buddy, Jimmy Griggs in Nashville, TN contacted me and asked if I wanted to meet baseball great, PETE ROSE. Without missing a beat I said "sure." Speaking comes naturally to me but wisdom is found in LISTENING. Boy, am I glad I went and listened. On November 8, 2011, we met at [...]
We should agree by now that the quote we learned as kids: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" are false. Actually, sometimes we would be fortunate to have broken a bone than bruised the soul or psyche. It was my privilege to be invited as an "extra" in [...]
