Donald Davis
Donald Davis
coaches helped point
I know it's a neighborhood rivalry, but at one point I told my coaches to look around and see what you helped build,
premier race short track
This is the premier short track race in Florida.
chance stay
I think if we stay healthy, we've got a chance to play in that game. Because we have under 30 kids, they have to stay hungry,
accounts event fears lucky several true
I was very lucky on several accounts as you can imagine. Don't let my fears of that event come true in your life.
bus call concerned knew last stop thoughts threw trip worst
As a concerned parent, the worst thoughts raced threw my head. We made one last trip to the bus stop before we knew we had to call the police.
feared heart
Again, my heart raced. I feared the worst.
albert flow history saw sees
Someone like Albert sees history as so much more than just history. Albert saw history as the flow of life.
block bus home house minutes son stop walk
Our 5-year-old son didn't come home from the bus stop. house was only one block from the bus stop. It would take him about 2 minutes to walk from the bus stop to our house.
storytelling
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
editors fool journalism
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
stories
I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.
dream fighting winning
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.
grave itself met people today
Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.