I received a phone message from a friend the other day. He was preparing a talk and he asked me how I would define the word “AGENT”? Agent? Define Agent? That seemed to be a strange request, but knowing my friend, Dave (always expect the unexpected) it didn’t seem too farfetched. [...]
It’s sort of cold and dark and rainy here today. I am reminded of what that means to me.
A long time ago, seems like a lifetime ago really, I spent part of a summer on the Navajo (that’s our name for them, they call themselves the “Dine’ ”) reservation in the middle of the [...]
I recently ran across a quote that got me thinking (always a dangerous moment). The quote was “Your words determine your destiny”.
“That’s a pretty big statement,” I thought. My resistance and defensiveness were called up to the front lines instantaneously. How about where I was born? Who my parents were? [...]
Someone suggested that I go see Michael Moore’s latest movie, “Capitalism”, and tell them what I thought of it. First of all, I have always enjoyed his work. I first became aware of him when I lived in Michigan and he published an alternative newspaper in Flint called, as I recall, the “Flint [...]
A few years ago my wife gave me the gift of a lifetime. A trip and tour of Europe. A very special one. A World War II Tour, complete with an accompanying historian from West Point (Vietnam Veteran) and a number of WWII veterans who were there in 1944, a Silver Star [...]
“What would you like as a gift to celebrate the holiday season?” “What would you like for your birthday?” If, like me, your mind (or a loved one’s) tends to go blank at that kind of question, you are not alone. There are a fair number of us. This “not knowing” [...]
I was asked recently by an educator, how I went from being an educator and athletic coach into my current field of work. As I thought about my answer I realized that my transition was not something I had planned on or even envisioned (contrary to how it is “supposed” to work, as in [...]
We were going to spend some time at the home of a family member. While it would be good to see them, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to 72 hours of political indoctrination, commentary, a TV set that was always on and where only one “Fair and Balanced” TV channel was permitted to be [...]
In one of my previous lives I coached high school baseball. Nearly two decades. Actually, I lived baseball. I used to say that I was one of those people who worked in a school system so that I would be allowed to coach. My obsession (which is another story) with having good teams and doing [...]
My bride and I just celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary. One of the remarkable things about that, at least to me, is that it feels better, safer, and more comfortable to be with her today than the day we were married (and it was pretty excellent then). I have to say that it [...]
