It’s a fair statement to say that I’m probably weird when it comes to ancient history. I don’t start history at World War II, with the Civil War, or even with the Renaissance. I don’t even really start at the Bronze Age. If the truth be told, I actually start from there and go back to the [...]

Well, after my last post, I thought it best to shift back to business and focus on a subject with some operational take-aways for us all. I had read an article about a year ago. It was actually about myself and the seminar business I had built. It talked about the fact that I had [...]

Let me give President Obama a reprieve for a few days, especially after the abomination (or is it obamanation) of his Thursday evening performance pretending to the nation that he has a clue as to how to create jobs in a free enterprise system.  So, it occurred to me, for today’s blog, that I switch to a [...]

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 [...]

The other day, I blogged about the desire, in the future, to provide daily P&L statements as part of the daily Flash Report I receive each morning. I received several comments, both on an off the blogsite, numerous emails, and (interestingly enough),  more visits than I had ever received to any single blog, although I’m not [...]

Interestingly enough, the bleak situation in Greece has diverted attention somewhat from the recession and focused it instead on the overall role of debt at the governmental level. The European Union (EU), sharing a common currency (Euro), in conjunction with other international funding sources like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will be required to pony up a [...]

I’ve spent most of my life attempting to wipe out vestiges of judgment. It’s not that judgment is necessarily bad. I’ve just always felt that observation tended to be more accurate, because it was judgmentally neutral. But, I do have to say, that my fundamental bias away from judgment and towards observation was severely strained as [...]

I’ve never been in the military. My Dad was. He was Air Force. He fought in World War II . . . in Italy. He took his discharge after the war, spent two years in civilian life, and went back into the military with my mom, the first Italian war bride. He spent the next 20 [...]

So my 6th grader and I were taking a bath together a few nights ago and he asked me to help him on a project. “Dad, if you had to boil down to two reasons why Rome fell when they were at the height of power, what would you say?” I was freshly off of reading the news [...]

I got an email the other day from a friend. I thought I would share it with you. Let me give you the context of why I thought it worthwhile. As I have been fighting the demons of this dark period over the past several months, I’ve been attempting not only to deal with the day [...]