Some of us above a certain age may remember the rallying cry that ultimately brought 5-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in 1945, to the White House in January, 1953. “I Like Ike,” ushered in one of the most successful eight year Presidencies in U.S. history. While General Eisenhower might have [...]

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 [...]

So, one of the blogs I missed publishing during this last year was the homecoming we had for our sophomore (now a Junior). It was an incredible affair. We actually had a bunch of parents and many of the sophomores over to the house for pictures, refreshments and appetizers, and a most unbelievable picture-taking extravaganza. Mind you: it [...]

As I think about the ongoing battle we are currently facing as to our policy on immigration, I am reminded of a somewhat unknown point of demarcation in western civiliation for which, to a large extent, we can all be grateful:  the destruction of Carthage by Rome. Interestingly, the Empire of Carthage was a massive [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with two intelligent female professionals in a business consulting firm in town who had come over to chat with me a little bit about a particular company who had retained them to put together a detailed strategic plan which involves a potential offer to investors. In the context of [...]

Tell the truth! How many of you have not secretly wanted to be on The Actor’s Studio, answering those famous questions James Lipton presents, with fanfare, a certain level of humility, and an appropriate attribution to the source? • What is your favorite word? • What is your least favorite word? • What turns you on? • What [...]

A Few Introductory Comments Jordan, just out of the 9th grade, is in a summer composition program at Lake Highland.  He was asked, as his opening assignment, to write an essay on a topic which affected him personally. He wrote it, and after it was finished, he asked me if I would read it. I [...]