Weekly Memo
State of the Union
I just sat down this morning and listened to the State of the Union Address by our President for the second time. Then I read different passages of the speech. If you fish around you […]
Weekly Memo
Weekly Memo
So Hard To Believe
It is so hard for me to believe that another year has come and passed. I have shaken more hands this year than I ever have in my career. Of course, it wasn’t really me, […]
Nuggets
That Magic Five-Point Program, Part 1
Captain Cook’s Five-Point Safety Program In his novel, Alaska, James Michener credits the British naval explorer Captain James Cook as being not just a discoverer of new lands but of new health and safety practices. […]
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The Greatest Untapped Resource In This World
For more years than I can remember I have closed my speeches with this remark. “The greatest untapped resource in this world is the human potential and the message I bring you is so simple you […]
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Weekly Memo
Listening to Father Time
We see them every day, people who actually believe they can outsmart old Father Time. “Me retire?” They often say. “No sir, not me, not while I am still able to go out there and […]
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Gotta Be This Or That
That is the title of an old romantic ballad and as I explored the web I came up with a site with Judy Garland doing a duet with Frank Sinatra doing that song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NEWUig1gSk The […]
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Dodging Bullets
As our North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue recently put it so well, here in North Carolina we just dodged another bullet. Hurricane Earl came and went and most of us here in North Carolina are […]
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Inspiration
I went to a yard sale and picked up a half a dozen Og Mandino books for just $3. I read five of them already and I was reminded of a conversation I had with […]
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AA Almost Andy
I have a sort of an anniversary coming up on August 13th. The other night I did two thirty minute stand up comedy shows here in Hillsborough and a friend said to me, “Do you […]