I’ve started a new adventure this weekend. Readers will remember when I spent several months exploring Suzy’s grandmother’s bible which was full of nuggets and clippings. So it’s time to explore again. This time it is her Uncle Wayne’s Bible. Wayne was a brilliant chemist but endured for decades crippling arthritis. I never heard him…
Month: November 2019
The View From Beneath
One benefit of having a father who worked in construction all his life was I never wanted for a summer job. The day after school ended, I was expected to report to work for the company my father worked for at the time. Another benefit was I was often given the lowest of the low…
Pass The Torch
This weekend my juices were charged by two articles I read. One was about California, and how lack of vision, planning, and care have created a place to live that may become uninhabitable in the next decade. The second article was the fact that North America has lost over three Billion birds in the last…
Taking Credit
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu. Whether in sports, business, and politics the greatest of the leaders I encountered took the least credit. I don’t know if times have changed but it seems that is no longer the case. Business leaders give little credit…