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171. Writing for Joy
April 02, 2011
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself. --- Mahatma Gandhi Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing. -- William Shakespeare I was recently invited to speak at a writer’s workshop called, “Create Your Own Story” held at...
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172. Kingsbury Park
March 23, 2011
Once upon a time…
…there was a tranquil, pristine, middle-class town in Northwest Ohio that was a picture of the American dream. The downtown resembled Main Street at Disneyland. It really did. There were two five-and-dimes, malt shops, men’s and women’s clothing stores, banks, bakeries, har...
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173. Congressional Hearings: Home-Grown Islamic Terror
March 13, 2011
Some time ago… I waited patiently in the Customs queue at Riyadh. The flight from Houston through Paris via Air France had been tiring. I hoped someone was meeting my flight. “You plan to play tennis?” The voice came from the gentleman behind me, a pleasant-looking Pakistani. He was ...
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174. How "Real" Change Occurs
March 12, 2011
During the last presidential election cycle, the winning candidate promised sweeping change especially in the way the federal government does business, and as typical, he did not deliver. We’re getting more of the same old, same old... But why be surprised? These folks (democrats and GOP) are politi...
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175. The Crowded Sky
March 06, 2011
I boarded the CRJ Bombardier early with the first group on account o’ I had almost two million miles with the air carrier. The aircraft was designed to carry 70 passengers of so-called normal dimensions. What I mean is that my six-eight brother would not have been able to walk upright nor sit withou...
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176. Downsizing: One-way Loyalty
February 08, 2011
I’ve been fortunate enough to have an energizing and rewarding career—-and it’s still going! It isn’t that I’m any more talented than anyone else, but my timing has been good; that is, when I graduated from college the economy was booming. If you wanted six job offers you took six interviews. And so...
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177. A Puzzling Human Condition: Learning to be Ignorant
February 04, 2011
In a recent article (Club of Clowns – Part 4: The Wild Horse Race) I wrote about a tug-o-war contest that was won not by the biggest and strongest, but the smartest. The “trump card” was not some secret weapon, but science-—physics to be specific. In other words, the weapon was knowledge. The “human...
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178. Club of Clowns - Part 4: Wild Horse Race
January 29, 2011
Summer was the club’s annual one-ton tug-o-war tournament held on the sand near the Manhattan Beach pier. Each team was allowed to have a maximum of 2,000 pounds of humanity, and they weighed us in right on the beach. Twelve teams were entered that ranged in size from seven to 13 men, the majority c...
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179. Halitosis from Hell (or How Bad Breath Killed a Business Deal)
January 22, 2011
A New York businessman, Ben, a professor from Buffalo, Dr. Hale, and I traveled to Flagstaff, Arizona to discuss a possible business partnership with a high roller who said he had access to billions of dollars. He had reviewed our business plan, which proposed purchasing and converting a defunct cop...
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180. Club of Clowns - Part 3: Adieu Bud McConnell
January 11, 2011
PROLOGUE The French word "adieu" like the Spanish "adios" literally means "to God". However, where English and Spanish speaking peoples think of it just as another way of saying good-bye, the French look at it differently; that is, adieu is reserved for the FINAL good-bye; it means we will n...
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