The Longest I’ve Worked For A Compliment
About twenty years. That is, the best I can figure, the longest I have worked for a compliment. I received it just the other day and it came from a woman I don’t really know. The remark containing the compliment was made in the grocery store to Polly, my wife....
Happy New … Legacy
Happy New Year everyone! I decided to delay this posting until a few days after the New Year actually started in order to give us all time to “settle in.” Flush with the excitement of champagne corks popping and fireworks lighting the sky, it is a bit too...
Prospering In Today’s Economy
“The times, they are a changing.” Bob Dylan wrote those words more than a half century ago, but they are at least as accurate now as they were then. “The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.” That was Bob Dylan, too, at about the same...
Goodbye, Mr. Foster
I met him at least eight years ago—maybe ten—on Concourse A at the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. He wore black pants and a white shirt with a black tie and bib apron. “Let me carry that for you, young man,” he said, noticing the balancing act I...