American gymnast Simone Biles stands four-feet-eight inches tall. By stepping aside during this year's overhyped money grab Tokyo and the IOC call the Olympic "Games," she towers like a giant. Make no mistake what this fortnight of international … [Read more...]
New Novel on the Way: Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends)
The elephant has been birthed: The manuscript for the follow-up to my popular novel Tuki Banjo, Superstar has been completed and is out with advance readers. If things stay on track, we hope for an autumn release. This story is not a sequel as … [Read more...]
Second Interview with Ed Molitor’s “The Athletics of Business”
It's always nice to be a guest on someone's show, especially so when you are asked back a second time. Following my recent return to Chicago-based Ed Molitor's interview program, here is the link: … [Read more...]
New Novel in the Works: The TUKI BANJO follow-up
Through the last couple decades, I have told a lot of fun stories featuring a small army of great characters. Datchet, a curmudgeonly old chap in London, was good enough Michael Caine wanted to play him on the screen if we could have raised the money … [Read more...]
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
The poppies just keep on growing. While the new president tries to instill a return to civility and order, the old one hopes the legal sledgehammer currently being lifted in New York somehow fails to crack open the coconut of various misgivings … [Read more...]
Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace
Whether inadvertent or stoked by emotion, conflict resolution is part of working with others. Like forest fires, prevention is easier to manage than putting out the flames. I am a big proponent of understanding what causes these issues in the … [Read more...]
Goodbye & Good Riddance
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 … [Read more...]
Podcast Interview on “The Athletics of Business” with Ed Molitor
Hourlong interview with Ed Molitor a look back at my life, career, reinventions, and friends I recently sat down for an expansive in-depth interview with Chicago leadership expert Ed Molitor about my formative years, life choices, work, baseball … [Read more...]
The Downside of Being Confined: Reduced Travel
If you want to learn, travel. If you want to learn a lot, travel to a foreign country. If you want to learn a lot about yourself, travel alone to a foreign country where you do not speak the language. As the world searches for its "new … [Read more...]
No Bats Baseball Club honored during TV news feature
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 … [Read more...]