Recently, a co-worker suggested that I look into using the Nextdoor app to try and generate some potential leads for my part-time job. My company already drops paid ads on the platform so it was felt that anything I might add would appear seamless and enhance the chances of it being influential. Not that I … Read more
As if the Kansas City Chiefs needed it, yet another one of the players for their back-to-back Super Bowl championship team has become a household name. Until he was given the opportunity to speak to graduating students at a conservative college in Kansas, Harrison Butker was perhaps best known as a kicker who’d occasionally bail … Read more
To those of you who are still fortunate enough to have the presence of a mother in your life, whether it’s your actual mom, the mother of your children or someone who is a maternal figure who is present in your life, you have my respect and envy today. And to those of you who … Read more
It is said that death comes in threes, and, sadly, for me once again that was true. But I could have never have predicted this particular trifecta. Yesterday started for me in the wee hours catching up on one of the few broadcast network sitcoms I still try and watch with some regularity, YOUNG SHELDON. … Read more
I missed the Vietnam War era on my college campus by a few years. I didn’t have anyone like Hanoi Jane nor Abbie Hoffman. But I did have Mike and Hugo. Mike and Hugo were the closest things to activists on my frigid campus. Mike also happened to have been elected student body president the … Read more
It’s Sunday, so I suppose a confession would be in order. Yes, I made an impulse purchase. I bought a pair of these. I probably will never wear them again after tomorrow, and if my schedule is off by even a few minutes I may not even use them tomorrow. But tomorrow, so I’ve read, … Read more
On Friday I had a brief phone conversation with an executive who was responsible for hiring for an open position that I was fully qualified for and had been personally recommended to by a mutual business friend. A couple of weeks had passed since my friend told me to follow up by calling the hiring … Read more
Now, where were we? When I chose to take a break a bit more than a month ago, I was arguably at a low point even by my modest standards, and in hindsight it showed at every level. Even when people were doing something that had the chance to be right, more often that not … Read more
My best friend, for reasons I can’t possibly try to sensibly go into publicly, has given me the pet name of “Brock”. So I was kind of rooting for Mr. Purdy, that young up-and-comer quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, who led his underdog team to overtime and down the field with an impressive seven-minute-plus … Read more
