Articles by Art Fettig

When someone asked Thomas Edison where he got all of his ideas from he replied something like “They are all around us in the ether of the air and all we have to do is […]

Back when we used pay phones every now and then when we stepped into a phone booth we discovered that there was a sign hung over the phone that read “Out of Order”, well,we got […]

Going in for a haircut this morning sure took me back a long ways. My barber was a lady from Thailand and as I sat watching her cut my hair my mind went back sixty […]

In the fall of 1975 I received a call from the Michigan Petroleum Association. President Gerald Ford had promised when he was a Michigan Senator that he would be their banquet speaker at their upcoming […]

When asked for his definition of hell one brilliant, talented, fantastic achiever I encountered said, “Hell is a place where you are shown all of the awesome talents and abilities and opportunities to use what […]

“I did not come to my fundamental understanding of the universe through my rational mind. I often think in music.” Albert Einstein     When I read that quote it started me thinking about how many […]

Did you ever get just so grateful about something or somebody that the joy just came out in a big smile. It is a bit like getting into a laughing situation where you just can’t […]

In 1976, fairly early in my creative career I had the honor of making a presentation at  Buffalo University’s Creative Problem Solving Institute on the topic “Humor and Creativity.”  My mentor, Herb True, PhD who […]

I was cleaning out a drawer upstairs in my music room when I came upon two boxes of Swan Safety Pins. ½ Great Gross in each box. They were manufactured in Shanghai, China.  Two boxes, […]