Archive for August, 2011

Leadership is the skill of knowing how to let people find their own way to greatness but being there to help them when they need it. I can’t remember where I heard that but it’s been on my mind lately as I’ve been going through the process of helping my family get things done for […]

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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By the time you see this post I’ll be on my way out of town to see my mother, grandmother, and my grandmother’s brother. My grandmother is in a nursing home, something I think I’ve talked about before. You know, I’ve been in health care more than 28 years now, and though this isn’t the […]

Last week there were some spontaneous protests in San Francisco surrounding the BART system. Someone there surmised that protesters were mobilizing themselves by using their cell phones and decided to turn off access to their signal. This generated claims of censorship, with many people saying their freedom of speech rights were being violated. It seems […]

My wife and I had an issue. One day she asked me “How come you won’t use the dish rag when you’re cleaning up?” I responded “Because the dish rag always feels icky (yes, I said icky) because you like just leaving it in the sink with all sorts of stuff being spilled and thrown […]