This week's Pep Talk Blog: "Truth and Responsibility Rule"

It was late December and the morning after my son's 20th birthday party. I'm in the kitchen concluding cleanup of a wonderful evening where family and dear friends laughed often, ate too much and toasted Kyle: a fantastic young man with a bright future.

Anyway, I'm wrapping up the cleanup but then pause to read "Heene's Grounded" the front-page headline story from the Denver Post. The "Balloon Boy" couple was sentenced to brief jail time because of an ill-advised hoax that didn't pass the tran...