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Be Brief

Several years ago my friend and I were walking down Bourbon Street in New Orleans and I noticed a very simple sign hanging in the doorway of a fairly small club.  It read, “Tonight, Al […]

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Birthdays

Personally, in the far past I never paid much attention to my birthdays.  They came, they left and it really didn’t make much sense all the concert people paid to turning forty, or fifty.  Some […]

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Listenin’ and Eatin’

Candidate for N.C. Governor Pat McCrory, right, greets Art Fettig lof Hillsborough, who is an Andy Griffith look-alike.  Photo by Corey Lowenstein – clowenst@newsobserver.com Reprinted with permission from The News & Observer of Raleigh, North […]

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Adventures

I’m sitting here at my computer in my spacious office and in the doorway, my wife Jean has hung up my white shirt and my Almost Andy seersucker jacket. We have some wonderful Almost Andy […]

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Something You Said

Norman Cousins once wrote, “If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.” I just ran into that quote in a fantastic book by Super Psychologist […]

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Celebrate

I had a wonderful corporate date earlier this week and I was dressed in my seersucker Matlock jacket and I did some comedy on not being Andy Griffith and it was mostly fun but I […]

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Warriors

I’m sitting here working on a talk for the North Carolina Purple Heart Assn. Annual Meeting Banquet and I have fifteen minutes following the Keynoter. I’ve done many hundreds of banquet presentations and twice now […]