Significance usually produces success, at some level. . .and at some moment in time, and maybe even more; but not vice versa.  Success does not necessarily produce significance! It’s always been my great desire to produce both, even if not simultaneously.

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 [...]

We had quite a bit of drama in the household a few evenings ago. Isabella, newly installed into the 2nd grade, expected some family and neighborhood lay-downs when she started pitching magazine subscriptions for the annual contest. Apparently, depending on how many subscriptions you sell, and how much money you collect in a two-week period of time, [...]

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 [...]

It occurred to me that, at a certain point in one’s life, you go from crafting your own originality in your earlier younger years to being concerned about being trapped by that originality years later. It’s as if the early originality becomes your personal prison if you can’t break free of it later. The French cuffs and [...]

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 [...]

I remember, back in 1980, being enamored by Libertarian philosophy. It had ideological clarity and a pristine point of view. So, with a young group of ideological Mensans, I headed to the Libertarian National Convention, the objective of which was to nominate a Presidential candidate to actually run for office. The convention was held in Denver, Colorado, [...]

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 [...]