Writings
Listening well
Back in the day I spent about a dozen years in the music business. As I was thinking about the topic of listening, a couple of experiences from that world leapt out of the recesses of my mind and said, “Tell them about me.” So I will. The first took
Laughing Matters
A young man is passing by a bar when he sees an old woman fishing with a stick and a string in a puddle by the sidewalk. “She must be a poor old fool,” he thinks to himself, and out of the kindness of his heart, he invites the woman
Checking your stats
If you are a sports fan, you might just have a lot of stats in your head. Football fans (I’ll start with that because it’s playoff time for both college and professional football) know everything from won-lost records to quarterback ratings. And countless other stats, especially on their favorite teams
What will you do in 2025? Here’s what we will do.
According to the calendar — and they have a tendency to be accurate — this will be our final feature article for 2024. The common theme for this time of year is “New Year’s Resolutions,” and perhaps you’ve already started thinking about yours. Almost every list I see is comprised
God rest you merry, Gentlemen.
Everyone who reads English, and especially everyone who writes English, knows the importance of a properly placed comma. Several years ago I picked up a book on the topic of punctuation, very cleverly titled Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The cover shows two panda bears. One of them is on a
Christmas movies — and a Christmas present
My wife just bought a Christmas tee shirt. It’s red, and the front is decorated with red and white and green and yellow icons from Christmas movies. See if you can figure them out. How did you do? Great, I’m guessing, which means you know a lot about Christmas movies!
Outside of time
I suppose you noticed that Christmas is coming. We know it, too, and unless we want people to say, “The Grinch must live there,” we need to start decorating for Christmas. But our calendars are full of other activities. There was Thanksgiving, there are meetings, there are events, there was
Show me the way
Being a golfer, I’m interested in almost everything that has to do with the game. From the history, to the players, to the events, to the courses — it all fascinates me. Beyond the challenge of playing it well, golf has an amazing cast of characters. Sometimes those characters have
A Bad Choice That Was Thought To Be Good
Last week I wrote about “men without chests,” people of all ages and both sexes who lack an important tool in the decision making process. Why they lack this tool is, at least in part, a mystery to me. As the philosophers would say, I can posit an answer. That’s
Men Without Chests
A gut feeling Have you ever had a gut feeling about something? Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a fictional character on the show NCIS, had “gut feelings” almost every week. And his gut was amazingly accurate. Whether or not your gut is as good as Gibbs’ gut, I’m guessing you’ve
Make America Good Again
I’m a MAGA guy, with one tiny — but very important — modification. Instead of saying Make America Great Again, I’m campaigning to Make America Good Again. I know, I know. You’re thinking, “Why didn’t you get into the presidential race? That “good” thing is something I could get behind
What are you searching for?
Search: it is an extremely big deal in almost every world you can name. Science? Yep, searching for other worlds (SETI Institute, etc.), reasons for black holes, and far more. Medicine? Of course. There are searches for cures for dozens and dozens of illnesses. Big Pharma is with them. Athletics?
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