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Goodbye & Good Riddance

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2020 & Trump Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Rump It has been difficult to keep silent these last few months as Rome burned, Nero fiddled, and Nero’s son-in-law was setting up a sketchy LLC to pack war chest cash from an “investigate election fraud” plea into the current president’s personal golden parachute. […]

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No Bats Baseball Club honored during TV news feature

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TV Feature Honors Club, 4 Departed Members 26 August 2020 https://local12.com/news/local/no-fans-nets-historic-donations-for-reds-community-fund-in-form-of-fan-cutouts-cincinnati When I founded the No Bats Baseball Club in 1991, I had no idea we would still be together three decades later. Nor did I dream we would raise and donate $2 million to a wide variety of wonderful charities. This short piece ran […]

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Current Writing Projects

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Three Books, One Movie in the Works In between global Zoom seminars to help people manage their Worry Circles, I am pushing forward with three book projects and a motion picture comedy. I guess this is the upside of being somewhat sequestered in my writing room, watching hummingbirds as pandemic days slowly creep by. All […]

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Who Is In Your Hall of Fame?

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People are, by nature, herd animals, and as life unfolds most of us will meet thousands. The vast majority will bounce off and wash away like beach sand, but some will stick like Band-Aids. A far smaller number have lasting impact. Only a few will enter your personal Hall of Fame. Who are those people? […]

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Dealing with Disappointment: The Four Words You Need to Know

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A daisy chain of unrelated topics connected by braided common themes — frustration and disappointment — have led me to repeating the four words we need to keep in mind whenever we face echoing head noise. I feel strongly about all four, and have a printed summary taped to my computer screen as a relentless […]

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The Six Steps of the Crisis

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The globe wallows in unexpected and ill-prepared turmoil, globally wrapped in an ever-thickening waddling of a virus-spun spiderweb by invisible worldwide foes offering no clues to a potential ending. The journey we will traverse is long, uphill, and rock strewn. I see it encompassing six stages: Novelty. Boredom. Frustration. Reality. Panic. Despair. Novelty. For awhile, […]

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Making Better Time Choices During Housebound Mandates

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From what I’ve been seeing, reading, and hearing in discussions with friends on five continents, one of the major challenges during COVID-19’s unexpected housebound life challenges stems from what to do with the time that mandated self-isolation creates. For those whose habits and lifestyles enable them to amuse or entertain themselves as a course of […]

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