Which door would you walk through? — Which are you? If you claim you’re beautiful wouldn’t that sound a little conceited? If you described yourself as average isn’t that just another pigeonhole with a different name? I bring this up because I watched an experiment where different signs were put over the doors to an office building. …

You might be unknown but that could be temporary — Most of you reading this have probably never heard of Samuel Pierpoint Langley. Mr. Langley was the Secretary of The Smithsonian Institute at one time. The United States government came to Mr. Langley with a very important project. …

The Short Answer is Yes — Sort Of — Success. It’s a tough word to define. Is Elon Musk successful? Was Mother Teresa? As you can see success is an individual goal dream or desire that’s specific to each one of us. There’s no cookie cutter one size fits all benchmark that says, “You’ve made it.” Only you can…

In ways that don’t exist today — During the late 1800s to the early 1900s five great life changing events happened. Electricity, automobile, flight, telephone, radio, and TV appeared on the scene together. Our lives were changed forever. People moved off farms and into cities and the industrial revolution was off and running. There became new ways…

Crime and Punishment Lines Are Getting Fuzzy — There’s been a lot of news lately. January 6th Congressional hearings for one. Going back in time a little further, riots in Portland, Seattle, Washington, DC., and Kenosha, Wisconsin. Going back even further. News reports are filled with election updates, the verdict in the Oregon case, and demonstrators trying to…

Why Are You Here? — Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, was not only a great writer but also a man who was a student of Mark Twain. I suppose all of us would consider ourselves experts on ourselves. But are we? What Are the Two Most Important Days of Everyone’s Life? One of Twain’s most famous sayings is, “The two most important days in your…

Where do all these deniers come from? — Right and wrong — what do those two words really mean? According to Webster, they mean the following: Right — Morally good, justified, or acceptable. True or correct as fact. Correct in one’s opinion or judgment. Wrong — Not correct or true, mistaken, unsuitable or undesirable. Unjust, dishonest, or immoral…

Inflation, gas prices, food, housing, nothing left — I was a very poor money manager during my early working years. I thought I needed this or that and had to have it immediately. Credit cards made that behavior very easy. I’ll just pay for it later. Fat chance of that happening No matter how much I planned or…

Uncle Sam is clearly fudging the numbers — First there was Covid — then inflation hitting a 40-year high. These two events have had a profound effect on unemployment numbers. People who should have been employed found themselves on the street not because of their employer but because of their government. In hindsight the shutdowns had little effect…