A little over three years ago we decided to add a dog to our family. My wife is a city girl and I'm a country boy. I'd like a barnyard full of pets and she'd prefer... not. We compromise. We decided on a "small, sweet, loving, rescue dog." So we set out to find one who met [...]
“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.” - Rosa Parks On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was seated on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. When the driver ordered her to give up her seat so a white passenger could take it, she refused. This simple [...]
Things change. Whether we like it or not, the world is changing. Our approach to change matters a great deal as to how we view change, either good or bad. If we adopt a victim-like mentality (passive, entrenched and unaware), any change will likely be "bad." Whereas, a more valiant approach (active, opportunity-seeking and aware) [...]
It's been said that we always look our best in our resumes. While most resumes are basically honest - if somewhat overly flattering - pictures of what we've done, they don't quite get to the point of who we are. Here's a fun exercise to help you paint that picture in a slightly different way: [...]
"If you could make God bleed, people will cease to believe in Him... there will be blood in the water, and the sharks will come." Ivan Vanko (actor Mickey Rourke), Iron Man 2. In the movie Iron Man 2, the hero, Tony Stark (actor Robert Downey, Jr.) has made the world aware of his dual identity, [...]
Do you ever feel like you're arguing with idiots? Most of them actually aren't (idiots). Some probably are. For those, remember, "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." (Wm. G. MacAdoo) In most business and professional discourse someone has to be the grown up and it might as well be you. Here's [...]
Miller was laid to rest today. Love. Friends. Family. Honor. Tears. A sense of "graduation." Miller was 21 years old, but was mature, wise and kind far beyond those 21 short years. We've been friends with his mother and father for about 15 years so we've had the chance to watch Miller and his younger [...]
Scenario One: During a recent phone conversation with friend who had just shut down his business of 23 years he reminded me of a scene from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises where the main character, Mike Campbell, is asked "How did you go bankrupt?" The answer was "Gradually... then all of a sudden." Scenario Two: Last week [...]
According to vulture-territory.com, the California Condor has been protected since 1953 and was listed as an endangered species in 1971. By 1986, for a variety of reasons, the wild populations had sunk to single digits. Soon the three remaining California Condors were captured and joined twenty-four others in captivity. The birds have adapted reasonably well [...]
"Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you." is one of the most memorable lines from the song Anything You Can Do which was composed by Irving Berlin for the 1946 Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun. The song is a spirited duet, with one male singer and [...]
