Nuggets
Step Forward and Identify Yourself
What if, when you died, you had to step forward and identify yourself so that a panel of your peers might determine just where you might be headed next. What could you say for yourself? […]
Year: 2012
Nuggets
Home Again
My wife Jean and I have just returned from a two thousand mile drive around. That is a long road for aging legs and backs and we were really happy to return to the comfort […]
Nuggets
Nuggets
Remembering the National Safety Congresses
It was 1978 and it had taken me five years to win that spot as Early Morning Speaker at the National Safety Congress at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago. I was booked for three […]
Nuggets
What’s Buzzing
The Mosquito Ringtone is a high frequency ringtone that many adults can’t hear. This makes the Mosquito Ringtone a secret ringtone used by kids so adults (like teachers & parents) can’t hear their cell phones […]
Nuggets
Nuggets
Thinking about the future in the past
In a conversation between Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone back in 1931 Mr. Edison said, “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be […]
Weekly Memo
Women today are great speakers
I’ve been around the professional speaking field since the early seventies and I can remember when I truly believed that Marilyn VanderBur a former Miss American was the finest women speaker alive. I’m not going […]
Nuggets
Wrestling Furniture
I don’t know if you ever tried to wrestle a big couch and a couple of Lazy Boy Chairs across the carpeted floor so the cleaners could come in and clean but believe me, it […]
Nuggets
Parking Downtown On The Street
When I was sixteen I flunked my first driver’s road test. I drove just fine but the final item on the check list was parking and I got all flustered when the fellow was a […]