Recently, something both distressed and upset me. Someone I trusted completely outright lied to me. That鈥檚 not the worst part. That someone was me. You see, I had weighed myself that morning, knew what the scale read, and later convinced myself that I was slender enough to eat more than ...
The realities of growing up Catholic were many and varied. Although I do not purport to be a religious guy, a lot of my Catholic guilt remains totally intact and emanates from the teachings of Sister Calista who, during my formative years, worked her magic. She did this by drilling us about ...
Before the recent horrendous assassination attempt in Butler County, in what I considered to be a very civil response to a post on social media, an acquaintance of the person who made the post responded this way, 鈥淚f you don鈥檛 do what we want, we will come at you with our guns.鈥� To ...
Victory in Japan Day occurred 11 months before I was conceived. I eventually figured out that the war with Japan had started on my mother鈥檚 25th birthday in 1941, the same year my brother was born. Because everyone talked so much about the war, I thought we had been fighting with Germany ...
In my numerous leadership roles, I鈥檝e worked with many people who are bottom-line-oriented folks. They are the take-no-prisoners kind of people we鈥檝e all been exposed to. Consider this scenario: 鈥淲hat does this diagnosis mean?鈥� asks the patient. 鈥淚t means you鈥檙e gonna ...
Having run not-for-profit organizations for the better part of my life, I have come to appreciate something that might take others a lifetime to grasp. You see, I never owned the places where I worked. It was very clear to me that, be it a school, an arts center, a tourism bureau, a ...