Year: 2000

I visited the Poet’s Walk and what a joy it was for me last Tuesday. 14 students with a counselor from an Academy here in Hillsborough came strolling  down the walk and with permission I […]

For the past few weeks I have been endeavoring to sort out the books and booklets I’ve written by date. Then I want to make a second collection sorted by topic. I thought it would […]

Have you ever been scolded and told “You just better straighten yourself out.”  Well I caught myself saying that to myself yesterday. Lately I have been walking out our gravel driveway to get in the […]

H. L. Hunt, who in his time was one of the richest men in the United States, once said that “You must decide what it is you want and decide what you will give up […]

I was listening to the news this morning, really trying to keep up with the reporters but they were just a tiny bit too fast for my comprehension. It wasn’t that I couldn’t hear, keeping […]

There are moments in a speakers career when it is not all about the money. What if the client is short of money?  One day I was negotiating my fee with the Illinois Hog Growers […]

A dynamic speaker named Bill Sanders invited me to join him one day when he was visiting Jackson prison. That would be around 1980. We went into the maximum security section and visited with prisoners […]

James Brown, the old Blues singer, wrote and sang a song titled “Papa’s got a brand new bag”. I sort of associated that song with the different brands I have had in my career. For […]

Did you ever get to laughing so hard that you had to get down on the floor and get into a fetal position just to survive?  Both my musical friend Greg Brayton and I got […]