Nuggets

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 […]

One time early in my career as a professional speaker I had a call from the Iowa Hog Grower Association and they wanted me to do a banquet speech for their members at an annual […]

I was drafted into the Army in April 9th, 1951, for the Korean Police Action. The first thing I learned was “Don’t volunteer for anything.”  Pretty good advice. They would trick us.  The Sgt. would […]

I have been writing newsletters since November, 1988. I had delivered presentations at the National Safety Congress to thousands of America’s top safety people and when I returned home, totally exhausted, I faced the ordeal […]

Greg’s Triumph at the Opera House.  I wrote a song I titled Graj Sale-ing back in 1997, Greg recorded it using but two of his many voices.  On this song I think we might have […]

It was in mid-May, 1991 and I was on a small Air Canada scheduled flight to Halifax, Nova Scotia and as we approached for a landing there was a dense fog. The plane drifted down, […]

Did you ever go to describe something to somebody and as you did so you got a whole new look at what you were describing?  That happened to me the other day when I had […]