Who is in Your Hall of Fame? 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 … [Read more...]
Catching Up As We Gladly Exit the Fun House Mirror of 2021
I apologize for getting lost. No good reason, just a barrel of feeble excuses. Like much of the world, I've been running sideways, backward, two steps forward, ducking, and hopping erratically depending on the how reality dictates. Time to at least … [Read more...]
How Many Stars in the Sky?
As the world keeps running sideways a hundred miles an hour, pausing only to take an occasional step backward, digital screens flood crowded global minds with more negative noise than positive. In America, a just announced survey reveals optimism and … [Read more...]
Simone Biles & The Olympic Game$
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...]