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This is a strange Christmas for me. For the first time I won’t be spending a Christmas with any family members. Since my grandmother passed away in August my mother has decided she’s spending the holiday with her best friend. My wife decided to spend the weekend with her single friends, who often spend their [...]

On this blog I mostly write about things that pertain to business in some fashion. Most of the time the articles have to do with things I do in business, but every once in awhile it’s about general business decorum or motivation. Occasionally I go a different direction, and today is one of those days. [...]

Today is the 10th anniversary of the worst day of terrorism in American history. The first plane hit one of the World Trade Center towers at 8:46; the second plane hit the other tower at 9:03. On one of my other blogs I’ve posted a video at the time of the first plane attack giving [...]

On 8/25/11 around 10:40 in the morning, my grandmother, Hazel Beverly, lost her battle for life, passing away peacefully at the nursing home I’ve talked about lately. The only saving grace to the entire affair is that she left the world without turmoil and wasn’t alone, although the family wasn’t there. She was 90 years [...]

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Today is the 10th anniversary of my officially starting my business. It came 2 weeks after my last “regular” job ended and I had taken some time to think about it. I actually hadn’t come to the full belief that I was going to end up being self employed, even though I was getting my [...]

I have intentionally avoided mentioning anything on Father’s Day for years. It’s because my dad passed away on Father’s Day in 2002, though the date then was the 16th instead of the 19th. I’m not a father, and I probably will never be one. I’m an only child so I’m not an uncle either, although [...]

Wow. Last night I was going into the kitchen to clean up from a lot of cooking done earlier in the day. I decided to turn the TV on in there, and since it was about 5 minutes after 10PM I decided to go to CNN since, as far as I knew, all sports activity [...]