Maybe the Sky IS Falling
There was a time when we were introduced to people, shook hands, stated that it's a pleasure meeting them, and set up a future time to speak. We used civil language and debated respectfully when necessary.Today, we "react" to a
Why Accept Some Vaccines and Not Others??
If not being vaccinated against Covid is a sign of independence and doesn't threaten anyone else, then why be vaccinated against polio, measles, the flu, pneumonia, shingles, tetanus, whooping cough, or anything else? Why this exception?
The Agony and the Ecstasy
I spent four years as an undergraduate in college. You were supposed to earn enough credits to be graduated in four years, which I did. I read every word on every page of every book assigned. I thought that's why
It’s All About Soul
I was reading about someone's consulting and coaching work this morning and she mentioned, in passing, a friend who was successfully working remotely for a company "to which she has no loyalty." That phrase brought me up short, sand on
Are You Choosing to Enjoy Yourself?
When my uncle in his late 70s, he got himself a job as a school crossing guard to have something to do. When the kids would come to the crosswalk to get across the street at 8 am, he'd ask
The Great American Pastime
One thing we're consistently great at here is complaining. We complain about traffic, about service, about the government, about the lack of quality programming on TV. We do this while we clog the roads, treat service people poorly, don't bother
How Could They Have Not Invented the Internet in the 19th Century?
If you were alive at the time of people truly believing the earth was flat, wouldn't you make decisions based on that belief? Eventually, someone challenged it and didn't sail over the edge (some astronomers had figured it out but
Why Don’t We Review the Customers?
When I read some of these vicious restaurant reviews, I wonder about the people who claim to be so terribly mistreated, ignored, and apparently nearly poisoned. I think if you write such a review then the restaurant staff should be
Agendaists
I received an email this morning taking me to task for writing my Monday Morning Memo® about the Olympics and not mentioning the nuclear meltdown that Japan endured years ago. He said he was an "exposure scientist," yet had no
Here She Comes….Miss Prudential?
This is a true story.In 1968 I was graduated from Rutgers near the top of my class in the teeth of the Viet Nam War. Having no idea what to do—I was a political science major who turned down a
