Archive for April, 2006

(originally posted November 17th, 2005) On Sunday, the wrestler Eddie Guerrero passed away at age 38. He was an active wrestler on the present WWE touring schedule, and I had just watched his performance Friday night, though it was filmed the previous Tuesday. Eddit was a supreme performer who had to overcome some of his […]

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(originally published April 28th, 2005) One of the issues of independent consultants is that sometimes you have to quibble over small things in order to get the big things done. For instance, I know that my professional time is valuable; someone else may not agree because they may not fully understand some of the things […]

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(originally published November 27th, 2005) It’s interesting how even a holiday like Thanksgiving can show how people have different perspectives on things. For me, Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. It was the only day of the year my entire family, of which there was 3 of us until my grandmother moved in, sat […]

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(originally published April 18th, 2006) I can’t even repeat my first thoughts from earlier today when I heard that the Alabama legislature had given final approval to a bill, called “The Rose Parks Bill”, that sets up a process to “pardon” Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr, and others who had been convicted of violating […]

(originally published April 11th, 2006) Yesterday I was talking to another consultant about something we’d gone back and forth with for about two weeks. I asked him if he’d called the party that I said he should call to verify the information before I did what he was asking me to do, fully knowing that […]