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It was 58 years ago this coming Wednesday that I snuck up the three flights of stairs to that meeting room at 55 1/2 East Michigan Avenue in Battle Creek, Michigan. A fellow was making […]

I recently found an old newspaper clipping dated February 4, 1969 which is just fifty years ago today.  It was a story about an exercise class at the YMCA and the photo in the Battle […]

With the new Mary Poppins playing in a nearby theatre my memory kicked in on one of my favorite memories. It was the day that I sang the song, “Just a spoon full of sugar”  […]

I was having a burger at a counter and a young man with mud all over his boots sat down next to me and we had a great conversation. He seemed friendly enough and we […]

Synergy is that awesome, magical force that is somehow created when two people get together for a joint endeavor. I first encountered it when I met G. Herbert True, Ph.D. He was speaking for a […]

Sometimes it is a small world. Jean and I were getting our recommended weekly fish at a Seafood Restaurant in Durham and a gent sitting across the way smiled, got up and came walking over […]

Unless my math is on the fritz, (and this late in the year it could well be) this should be our 52nd Monday Morning Memo of 2018. We started turning out newsletters back in 1988 […]

Early this morning the thought hit me that: “A poet can write most anything he wants to.  There are no rules.” The power of that statement nearly floored me.  I went on to say   Oh, a poet […]

Have you ever discovered coincidences in your life?  77 years ago last Friday I was 12 years old and already a successful independent businessman. I ran a very small landscape organization and had two customers. […]

​Whenever I suspect that my creativity is ebbing I go back to what other masters of creativity have written about their own thoughts on this topic. Take for instance Isaac Newton who wrote “I do […]