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Last week one of my wife’s friends had her purse stolen, which of course means everything else was taken as well. The problem here is that no one ran up to her and took it from her. There was no struggle at all. It turns out she’d gone to the library and signed up on [...]
When I was still a daily employee in my director’s role, I joined the local chapter of a national organization for my profession, which was patient account directors across the country. Locally, there were 8 meetings a year in Syracuse and one big 2-day conference in Alexandria Bay at the time. I wish I could [...]
There are many cartoons that have human characters interacting with animals. This goes way back to the beginning of animation. Anyone who loves cartoons remembers those old Fleischer cartoons where not only animals talked but inanimate objects talked as well. There’s always an interesting way these humans interact with these characters. Sometimes there’s the initial [...]
A couple of night ago there was a guy who came to the house to inspect a window we’d had installed at the end of the year, supposedly just to make sure it was installed properly. I had some minor issues with how everything was turning out. They might have just been my issues; after [...]
A few days ago I finally had the opportunity to visit a blog by Terry Starbucker (what a name, right?) and an old post of his titled Leaders as Teachers: Two Things You Absolutely, Positively Must Do To Be Effective. It was a great post, although I had a minor problem with it, and I [...]
Yesterday Juan Williams, the guy who wrote the book Eyes On The Prize and a long time contributor to NPR, was fired by said company for remarks he made on the Bill O’Reilly program on Fox News. Hours later he got a brand new show on that same network for more money than he was [...]
In my last post on the topic of communications, I pretty much said that no one is obligated to have to talk to anyone else if they know there are divergent beliefs where no one will change their mind unless it’s work related and things have to get done. Today I’m going to add to [...]
