Nuggets

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 […]

Have you ever been scolded and told “You just better straighten yourself out.”  Well I caught myself saying that to myself yesterday. Lately I have been walking out our gravel driveway to get in the […]

Here I go again! I don’t know about you but it seems like every year, a few days after Christmas I get all antsy and I feel compelled to write down a whole bunch of […]

In reviewing a CD of a talk I gave for the U.S. Army in Atlanta years ago, I found that one of my points involved getting feedback. I took a half-filled water pitcher and a […]

In 1956 I graduated from The Christopher’s Leadership Course. It was a 6 week course in Public Speaking and our instructor, named Frank, was a Dale Carnegie instructor days but he was a volunteer in […]

What with Memorial Day and D Day recently, my thoughts drifted back to a man named Glen Miller. He had a band in the late 1930;s and early 40’s that was #1 in the nation. […]

For the past few weeks I have been endeavoring to sort out the books and booklets I’ve written by date. Then I want to make a second collection sorted by topic. I thought it would […]

It is just January 2nd as I write this but this is my third day of high productivity. I cheated and started early. First thing I did was weigh myself. WOW! what a great day […]

I sat down recently at my drum set upstairs and a memory flashed into my mind.  I was 13, had met a new friend my age just two streets over and found out he was […]