Terry Pochert
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 […]
Listening To Others
I’m reading a book about Billionaire Howard Buffet and he is quoted as saying, One does not have to be correct very many times in a life time; twelve investment decisions in my forty year […]
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 […]
Seymoure The Ant
A delightful story about Seymour the ant as only Art Fettig can tell it. Art has been telling this little story to amazed audiences all over the world demonstrating how they also can explore the […]
Almost “Andy” – A Newfoundland Spoof
During a visit to Newfoundland, Art Fettig (who always seems to be mistaken for Andy Griffith) took advantage of the situation for a few minutes while dining at the Holiday Inn in Stephenville. Art quickly […]
The Great Storm
I Wish I Would Have Stayed Home In North Carolina this just might become known as The Great Storm Of The 21st Century. People throughout the state have been stocking up on simple necessities like […]
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, […]
Cleaning Out
I have been endeavoring to clean up two big file drawers full of speech material. Gosh I love some of that stuff. I must have a hundred hours of speech material in that drawer and […]
Kinds of People
A traveler nearing a great city asked an old man seated by the wayside, “What are the people like in the city?” “How were the people where you came from?” The old man asked. “A […]