Mitch's Blog

Last week I wrote a post titled a When Racism Is Unhidden and I mentioned an incident that kind of happened to me. Well, I did decide to follow up on it and called the manager of that particular outlet, just to give him a heads up. I said that I didn’t believe it was [...]

Everyone has a period in their lives when things aren’t going quite right. I had that period from May through early September when I had three major things going on in my life, two of them financial, one of them personal. I’m not a religious person, so I don’t have religion to fall back on. [...]

I had an interesting experience yesterday that I’d like to share with you. I’m wondering if you’ll get the message here or if you’ll miss it; let’s find out. I went to pick my mother up to bring her to the town I live in for Thanksgiving. She’s going to be staying with a friend [...]

If my dad was still alive, today would be his 80th birthday; his and his identical twin brother’s birthdays. It’s been a little over 8 years since he left this world, and I still think about him all the time. I often wonder how certain things he said have changed in my mind over the [...]

Last year I wrote a post titled Standing Up For Yourself, giving employees some tips on how to address managers that treat them badly. Unfortunately, I heard from a lot of people who just didn’t quite see it that way for a number of reasons. It’s hard to convince someone that they actually have some [...]

Yesterday I had to have a colonoscopy. The process for prepping, then going through one of these things is a nasty bit of business, prefaced by not being allowed to eat for a long time beforehand. Take it from me, it’s probably best to try to have it as early in the day as you [...]

“When you know better you do better.” ― Maya Angelou I was watching the program Oprah’s Life Stories last night, but not the live show she had on. Instead I watched an episode I had taped where she had brought back some former white supremacists that had been on her show in 1989 and had [...]