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If you have a moment, listen/read Beneath the Surface posted by Kim Clijsters's husband Brian on the family page of her website. The song

pertains to people's outlook on other people in the spot light. It seems that most people think that just because you are a professional athlete or because you are in the public eye that everything is perfect but that certainly is not the case. Everybody, and I mean everybody has their everyday struggles that they face, their own cross to bear. In this particular song, it really hits home for me because it was written by a friend of mine, Kevin Reed that I played with in Bree who talks about the struggles he faces playing pro basketball in another country, yet everyone that he knows back at home thinks he is living this perfect life and everything comes easy. Thats not what real life is. He talks about proving people wrong who thought you wouldn't be able to make it. He talks about your everyday struggles but having the will to get through them. His positive words are to let you know that you can achieve greatness, but the road to it is not so easy. He breaks it down nice lyrically and I hope that it can touch and inspire you like it did for me.

After posting the above story/song on Facebook, a friend shared with me how this material would be helpful for their "professional" family to discuss.  As you might guess, this son of a dentist came out with a different perspective on the road to greatness and whether it should be traveled at all.  Some of my thoughts posted at Confessions of a Dentist's Son.  This post contains a link to Growing Up in a Dental Office, the outline of a presentation I gave to the Duquesne University faculty group on Building a Community You Can Count On: A Case Study of Growing Up in the Dental Chair (January 2005).  As I described the story to a friend this morning, I thought to myself that I should write a book on the topic (some day).  For visual learners, pictures of the office can be found here.  Newer ones of our kids are on the camera.  They'll be posted in the near future. ... Open Wide.  Smile ;-)  Click.