Anybody who has recently picked up a newspaper now knows that the U.S. economy ended a 10-year period when, through that period of time, it continually grew.
I’d be willing to bet that there are thousands of quotations and hundreds of books written about positive thinking. Two such books that come to mind that had a profound impact on me are Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s “The Power of Positive Thinking” and Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and In…
If you’re like me you have a lot of stuff. Some useful, some not so much. It will be a terrible day when I come to the point of downsizing. Even worse, if someone else needs to downsize for me.
Writing opinion columns can be tough. While we all have opinions, some days the topic to write about … the subject I hope will be interesting and timely and will encourage my readers to ponder my opinion and either agree with it, or (more likely) come to the conclusion that I’m some kind of …
This year our country celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the right to vote for women, although sadly, suffrage was only granted to white women in many states, and it would not be illegal to racially discriminate in voting rights until a much later movement precipitate…
I hope this commentary finds you well, and that you are able to find a silver lining in this unprecedented slowdown of our country due to COVID-19. Who knew that social distancing would become a daily part of our vocabulary?
The coronavirus pandemic is devastating our society on more levels than I can comprehend. However, the great American mindset is that of overcoming. I am putting the squeeze on that lemon virus and believe I will eventually be getting lemonade.
We live in strange times, don’t we? A science fiction-like pandemic “The Chinese” or slightly more politically correct “Kung Flu” is gripping America. We’re avoiding each other (as the old adage goes) “like the plague.” Businesses and schools are closed. “Shelter in place” orders have been i…
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