Archive for June, 2010

On June 16th, 2002, Father’s Day that year, my dad passed away at exactly 4:45 PM. This is the 8th year that he’s been gone, and I can’t say that things have gotten all that much easier without him around. Last year was the first time I’d ever written about it on this blog; this […]

My wife had an incident at Macy’s at Carousel Center Mall this past week. She went in to pay a bill. The woman at the counter was taking care of this older couple before her, so she waited. She stated that this woman was really friendly to the couple, talking and smiling and laughing with […]

I’ll never get used to this sort of thing, and I’m happy for it. One of my posts has made another leadership list, this time on a blog called Business Pundit, in an article titled 50 Tips To Make You A Better Leader. It’s not a ranked list, but the author has categorized the list. […]

This past week I heard that there were plans for allowing a mosque to be built near the place where the Twin Towers came down. I immediately didn’t like it one bit. I don’t know that there’s many people who believe in diversity more than I do. I’ve written about it often here and in […]

In a comment I wrote on my previous piece, I briefly touched upon a theory that a manager I know at one of the local hospitals has regarding employees. It’s her belief that employees need to recognize that they’re hired for a job and that they need to do that job, and do it well. […]