Year: 2018

Unless my math is on the fritz, (and this late in the year it could well be) this should be our 52nd Monday Morning Memo of 2018. We started turning out newsletters back in 1988 […]

The idea was shared by a man named Paul and his fellow workers on the DT&I Railroad. They took an old steam engine, cleaned it up and then decorated it along with a caboose and […]

Early this morning the thought hit me that: “A poet can write most anything he wants to.  There are no rules.” The power of that statement nearly floored me.  I went on to say   Oh, a poet […]

Have you ever discovered coincidences in your life?  77 years ago last Friday I was 12 years old and already a successful independent businessman. I ran a very small landscape organization and had two customers. […]

​Whenever I suspect that my creativity is ebbing I go back to what other masters of creativity have written about their own thoughts on this topic. Take for instance Isaac Newton who wrote “I do […]

I was just sitting here in my swivel chair looking at the stuff in my office. Some might call it clutter but to me it is a display of my best stuff and oh, the […]

Exciting Adventure I ordered some new business cards recently and they arrived in the mail yesterday and they sure brought back memories of long ago. It was in February, 1961 in Battle Creek, Michigan and […]

Lately I have noticed a lot of people walking around with sour faces and what they need is Dis Surgery. Here are some of the wonderful words that I favor. Let us begin with one […]

In 1999 I wrote a children’s song which Greg Brayton and I recorded. Here are some of the lyrics. Punctuality, punctuality, That rare quality   Of being where you oughta when you oughta be Being where […]