I was thinking several months ago when I first drafted this blog about an incredible passage from Dante Alighieri’s Inferno.  It sounded like this (pardoning the misspellings and grammar):  “Nel’ Medso Del Camin’ Di Nostra Vita, Mi Recevai in una Selva Oscura Dove La Via Era Smarrita.” I translate it loosely as:  “In the middle of the [...]

Since there is very little I and frankly most of us can do to provide for substantive and material job growth in this country, I’m relegated to monitoring the on-going rhetoric that emanates from Washington with respect to jobs. The rhetoric continues to be punctuated by the Weekly Jobless Claims Reports, the Federal Unemployment Rate [...]

I saw my last article in Life In Business. I called it, An Open Letter to President Obama. What surprised me, however, was that I had published it October 31, 2010 . . . 2010? That was over 10 months ago. As I saw it on my blog, a blog I recently rechristened “Our Life in [...]

Mr. President, I am sending this letter to you with the utmost respect on the eve of the 2010 elections. I happen to be one of those cross-over Republicans who voted for you in 2008 because I firmly believed that then President Bush had made a mockery of our international relations, had badly handled the [...]

As I was blogging about my teaching moments with Isabella on selling two weeks ago, something occurred to me I thought I’d spotlight in a separate posting, one of my five rules of selling–a sense of urgency in the sale. There is probably no one who executed that with greater aplomb than Barrack Obama in his bid [...]

When I look at the most recent onslaught of political ads, something new appears to be occurring. There is the normal quantum of condescension, absurdity, and exaggeration, of course.  And that’s certainly not new. But what seems to be emerging is a new genre of political advertising that can best be described as massively mean-spirited ads [...]

Janet and I had dinner with a friend of ours at our house tonight.     It was one of those spontaneous things on a Sunday night that simply came from one thing or another and lent to having dinner.  She is divorced with minor children and is talking about somebody she had met a [...]

If ever I’d thought that deluge would roar;      That blistering blizzard of sleet. . . If ever I’d thought those winds would blow;      Those ravaging waves complete!    Could I ever have thought I’d deliver us all;      With safe passage through that heat? What arrogance would I have shown;      As if it was [...]

I remember, years ago, taking the est training. It was way back and certainly within the first decade of its infancy. I can remember any number of takeaways and many stay with me today. As a matter of fact, I can probably say that the primary life drivers for my perception of reality today came [...]

You know, it didn’t occur to me until I read Peggy Noonan’s column a couple of Saturday’s ago in the Wall Street Journal that the John Birchers are apparently dead. Fresh out of law school, I remember debating the Chairman of the John Birch Society in Florida back in the years that mattered. He was [...]