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Recovering is Half the Fun
On the Friday before Halloween we had big doings here in our little town of Hillsborough, NC. All of the stores were open late and the kids dressed up in the costumes and went trick […]
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That Magic Five-Point Program – Commitment, Part 2 of 2
Last week in Part 1, we saw how the South Seas explorer Captain James Cook of the Royal Navy was able to implement an effective five-point safety program to manage the risks of scurvy aboard […]
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Self Supporting Geniuses
My wife, Jean and I visited the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina recently and it just blew my mind the way the Wright Brothers met each new challenge head on […]
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Unlearning
“Learn to unlearn.” Benjamin Disraeli. I had a friend named Ray Motsavatge and he was a memory expert. Every week he would memorize the entire current issue and then he would tear up the magazine […]
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Publish or Perish
In academia there is a long standing understanding that professors must publish their works on a continuing basis if they expect to remain on the staff. In the railroad industry I won awards in 1964 […]
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The Music Stopped
There is an old song lyric that I haven’t heard for years but this morning it popped into my head. It goes, “The music stopped. But we went on dancing. Yes we went on dancing, […]
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I Love A Parade
No, I didn’t ride in that beautiful red Lamborghani. The seat is almost on the floor of that beautiful car and I figured it would take a crane at least to get me out of […]
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Walking A Little Taller
Today when I visited the SportsPlex for my work out they had a finish plasterer working on the ceiling. He wore a light weight set of stilts which raised him off the ground just high […]