I was in the midst of the work of the day when I got an urgent phone call on my office voicemail. It told me to call back right away. I didn’t have a chance at that moment, but I thought I’d better call back quickly. I didn’t get the opportunity.  Before I could break, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]