Nuggets
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
AA Almost Andy
I have a sort of an anniversary coming up on August 13th. The other night I did two thirty minute stand up comedy shows here in Hillsborough and a friend said to me, “Do you […]
Which Came First
I was watching the end of an Andy Griffith Show and Andy was walkin with his son Opie down a trail and they both had fishin’ poles and Andy was whistling their theme song. The […]
Whatever is Special
I got up early for an early appointment with my eye doctor and as I was driving east on Interstate 40 in fairly heavy traffic it suddenly dawned on me that many of the drivers […]