2007 Year in Review

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Professional highlights:
• Return engagements at The Kennedy Center and The Pentagon. At the Kennedy Center, I had the place to myself.
• Laughing Matters with Brett Leake is picked up by American Public Television marking its fifth consecutive year of distribution to the nation’s public broadcasting stations.
• Abilities magazine (Canada)

Corporate Clean Comedy Presentations

Corporate Comedy/Humor
- Chick-fil-A
- Trader publishing: Media Rent Solutions
- Landon IP

Funny Motivational Education Keynote
- University of Louisville, IT Department
- ARC of Carroll County, Maryland
- Virginia Public Schools ‘convocation season’: Chesapeake City Public Schools; Poquoson City Public Schools; New Kent and Lancaster Public Schools; Greene County Public Schools.
- Rivermont Schools
- Michigan Board for Mental Health

Federal Agency Humor
- The Department of Defense: Washington Headquarters Services
- U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission

Funny Motivational Healthcare Keynote
- Mass Mutual: SpecialCare
- Arizona Neurological Society
- Virginia Hospice Association
- Between Friends Club (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
- Cerebral Palsy of New York
- Sheltering Arms Hospital Richmond, Virginia
- Valley Health Winchester, Virginia

National Conference Keynote Humor
- National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH)
- National Association of Case Management Annual Conference
- Myasthenia Gravis

Service Humor
- Bradenton, Florida Rotary
- Rotary of Murdock, Florida
- Portsmouth Naval Nurses
- CHIP of Virginia

State Government Humor
- Virginia Department of Social Services: Office of Volunteerism and Community Service
- Virginia Department of Corrections

Comedy Club Humor
- Washington DC: DC Improv
- Erie PA: JR’s Last Laugh
- Tyson’s Corner, VA: Wiseacres
- Lexington, Kentucky: Comedy Off Broadway

Corporate Clean Comedy Documentary about Corporate Comedian Brett Leake

Knuckleball

Thank you long time pal, Ken Sons, www.kensonsfilms.com

for the time, effort and heart you put into Knuckleball, a story of change and perseverance featuring my family. The product of three years of striving Knuckleball has been accepted in film festivals from Florida to Montana including The Sarasota Film Festival where I was lucky to attend and join with Ken’s many loving friends in a standing room only tribute to his accomplishment.

Before setting out on my drive to attend the premier I sat in as Dad watched the DVD at home after which he said, “That’s my story....” Thank you, Kenny and congratulations to you and Sheila on the release of your most recent production, Kila Marie. She’s beautiful.

Geology short list

- My first view of The Grand Canyon from the south rim is preceded one day earlier by a drive on Interstate 64 across the New River gorge in West Virginia providing, in light of their similarly aged (relatively) strata, a nice contrast between the now passive eastern margin and the then passive western margin.

- A ride up a portion of Schnebly Hill Road in Arizona where I got a good look at the big red sandstone layer missing 150 miles north at the Grand Canyon and that at Sedona is the center of the vortex and keeps ’em coming back from around this globe and others light years away.

- The Columbia Icefields along the Alberta/British Columbia, CA. The Icefields Parkway has been called ‘the most beautiful drive in the world’ and of the million miles I’ve been lucky to drive I can’t find fault in the claim. You’ll never see thrust sheets the same way again.

- The Selma chalk and its economic relationship to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.