Followership Training
2013-05-31 – A hot topic in the adult-ed biz these days is leadership. No one is a follower. Everyone is a leader and they need to know how to do […]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Home Values
2013-05-29 – I saw a story yesterday about how home values are now up. First they were up. Then they were down. Now they are up again. In all that […]
Space In Front of Your Car
2013-05-27 – Did you ever notice how drivers in traffic inch forward to nearly touch the car ahead? That’s why they call it bumper to bumper. But did you […]
Evil Inclination (Yetzer Ha-ra)
2013-05-24 – Sorry I’m late posting this. I was enticed by the devil to relax when I came home from work last night. Not! I had a couple of discussions […]
Racial Profiling
2013-05-20 – IRS screening of Tea Party applications for tax exemption was a kind of racial profiling. We don’t normally think of racial profiling in this way. We think about […]
Sacred Economics
2013-05-20 – I just read a book called Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein. It was recommended to me by my friend […]
Shot While Trying to Escape
2013-05-17 – In 1987, I wrote a one-act play called “Shot While Trying to Escape.” The title was based on a standard excuse that the Nazi Gestapo used to explain […]
Trophies for Just Showing Up
2013-05-15 – You see it everywhere: people decrying a culture that gives trophies for just showing up. It’s socialist, they say, not to demand excellence, to reward behavior that anyone […]
Los Topes
2013-05-13 – In 1990, my fiancé (now my wife) Kit and I took a trip in the Yucatan. We rented a Volkswagen Beetle and drove from the coast to Chichen […]
Summer Snooze Song
2013-05-10 – (I found this in some old notes. Wrote it Tuesday, July 3, 1990.) Humid, frigid air from Whining humming bees who Throb and drone a lovely Siren […]
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