Year: 2017

Weekly Memo

Criticism

February 27, 2017 Art Fettig 2

Here’s how the Chicago Times in 1865 evaluated President Lincoln’s Gettsyburg Address in commenting on it the day after its delivery. “The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, […]

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Aren’tchaglad?

February 20, 2017 Art Fettig 0

Aren’tchaglad you’re not working in Washington, D.C. right now? Aren’tcha? And aren’tchaglad you’re not a commentator on one of those TV news shows where they line up a mess of broadcasters or so called experts […]

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The Binge

February 10, 2017 Art Fettig 1

I’ve been on a binge for over a month now and it just beginning to show some positive results. I’ve been working on a booklet tentatively titled “Stuff I Wrote”. One by one I have […]

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Weekly Memo

Aunt Jean

February 5, 2017 Art Fettig 0

My wife, Jean, just celebrated her 82nd birthday and the cards and candy and flowers and phone calls and the messages on Facebook – they were inspiring. Some of those messages written on the cards […]

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Aha!

January 22, 2017 Art Fettig 0

Have you ever experienced an AHA! moment in your life? It is a time when you learned a great truth that might influence your entire future.  I had such a moment one day in February […]

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Speechless

January 2, 2017 Art Fettig 0

It was December 15th, 1989, my final speech booking of my busiest year yet as a professional speaker and I was booked for a full day of speeches in the Catskill Mountains in New York. […]