Year: 2000

Over the years people have asked me, “Art, did you ever teach regular courses at schools and such? Nope, I have given many speeches and other presentations to students in classes at K-12 schools and […]

I believe that  right now, our American teachers are facing one of the most challenging times in American History. I’m praying for them. Thinking about teachers reminds me of a speech I made one morning […]

Many years ago it used to tick me off when watching the Johnny Carson Show.  Ed McMahon, the M.C., would say “Now  H – e – r – e  ‘ s Johnny!” and the audience […]

Amy, my daughter in San Diego, a very busy bi-lingual BSN Senior Case Manager and a Blue Ribbon Award winning quilter extraordinaire, has created a wonderful quilt for me to wrap up in when I […]

In reviewing a CD of a talk I gave for the U.S. Army in Atlanta years ago, I found that one of my points involved getting feedback. I took a half-filled water pitcher and a […]

I never attended college. I earned just one-half credit for attending a course on Overcoming the Fear of Computers at our Community College.  I still have a dreadful fear of computers. So much for me […]

Many years ago in Michigan I was a member of the Battle Creek chapter of the Lions organization. We had an annual meeting where each of us was assigned a blind person in our community […]

Little did I know that evening at Bryant,Ohio when I stood in front of that audience some fifty years ago that I was embarking on a great adventure that would require travel to 50 of […]

​On February 17, 1998 I was a guest speaker at the Florence Crane Women’s Facility, A Maximum Security Prison. This story that follows is about that day. Sally Brayton was the fantastic wife of Greg […]