Nuggets

A decade or two ago when I was on the road speaking a lot I used to go to bed early and plan to rehearse speech segments in my mind.  I would actually see myself […]

I was a Private E-2 in the US Army in 1951, just out of my basic training,  and had just boarded a troop ship in Seattle headed for Korea with a stop off at Camp Drake […]

I believe that  right now, our American teachers are facing one of the most challenging times in American History. I’m praying for them. Thinking about teachers reminds me of a speech I made one morning […]

“Courage is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to all of us.” John F. Kennedy  For a few days I had been thinking about my being Almost Andy and other than having a […]

Of 1776, what was the spirit? Revolution? Freedom? Independence? No, I think the prevailing spirit Was selling Selling one another. Selling like selling Had never been done before. Or since. Salespeople saying, “But as for […]

I heard the expression just the other day. “When are you going to grow up?”  Fortunately it was not directed at me this time.  Still, if I had to answer I might have admitted that […]

I’m sitting here at my desk in my office in my home here in the quiet woods in Hillsborough, North Carolina and I seem to be lost for the right words. I have written this […]

God, how the world needs a good shot of happiness and positive thinking right now, this minute, if not sooner.  Enough gloom. Let’s think about sunshine and happiness and smiling too. Let’s think about that […]

Over the years people have asked me, “Art, did you ever teach regular courses at schools and such? Nope, I have given many speeches and other presentations to students in classes at K-12 schools and […]

It was Christmas Eve at Sapporo, Japan, Camp Drake.  On Christmas eve, 1951 I walked over to the theatre at Camp Drake in Sapporo, Japan. I’d just rejoined the 1st Cav., returning from hospitals following […]