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Purple Heart Viola Sale
I’m a lifetime member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart and once a year our group goes out and sells Violas, which are purple poppies for contributions and the money is used for […]
Year: 2010
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Use It Or Lose It
As I get older my memory seems to be getting better and better. Don’t look shocked. You read that correctly. Just this past July I went out in front of an audience and did a […]
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The Greatest Untapped Resource In This World
For more years than I can remember I have closed my speeches with this remark. “The greatest untapped resource in this world is the human potential and the message I bring you is so simple you […]
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Use It Or Lose It
“The mind is a terrible thing to waste.” That is a well used quote used in fundraising for scholarships. The sense of humor is also a terrible thing to waste and yet it seems that […]
Weekly Memo
Listening to Father Time
We see them every day, people who actually believe they can outsmart old Father Time. “Me retire?” They often say. “No sir, not me, not while I am still able to go out there and […]
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Gotta Be This Or That
That is the title of an old romantic ballad and as I explored the web I came up with a site with Judy Garland doing a duet with Frank Sinatra doing that song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NEWUig1gSk The […]
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Dodging Bullets
As our North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue recently put it so well, here in North Carolina we just dodged another bullet. Hurricane Earl came and went and most of us here in North Carolina are […]
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Inspiration
I went to a yard sale and picked up a half a dozen Og Mandino books for just $3. I read five of them already and I was reminded of a conversation I had with […]
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What is Hazardous?
Forty years ago as I began working outside the railroad industry I sat down and made a little survey. I was seeking an answer to the question, “What industry is the most hazardous?” I just […]