“How are you?” I asked the cashier. I had picked up a few items at the grocery store and was checking out. “I am very well,” she replied. “I am alive and I have a job. That’s a lot to be thankful for.” We didn’t have the time to talk more but I left there … Read more
In America we live in a culture of youth. The values of youth – one’s appearance, stylish apparel, cool accessories, and the like are promoted mercilessly from every media outlet. While this is not altogether bad neither is it complete. For those of us who have lived more than three decades, we have discovered (0r … Read more
They usually arrive in the deepest darkest days of winter. Their appearance signals the message that the days will indeed brighten, clouds will give way to sunshine, and long nights will be pushed back by longer days. What are “they?” They are seed catalogs, those colorful paper promises of better times just ahead. They bring … Read more
The year was 1972 and we were as poor as Job’s turkey. Sue and I had made a lengthy trip to the northern edge of the Navajo Reservation and found ourselves in Kayenta, Arizona. It was well past dinner time and we were hungry. In those days we struggled to survive on less than $250 … Read more
Last night I watched three episodes of a program I’d never seen before. It was one of those business intervention reality shows called Bar Rescue. One episode I watched should have been called Bar Wars because the consultant/host of the program fought almost constantly with the bar’s owner. Briefly, the bar was 45 years old. … Read more