My dad passed away on June 16, 2002 at 4:45PM. That was yesterday, and I knew at 4:45 yesterday that it had been 9 years. I was also contemplating something that happened only 2 or 3 weeks earlier, something that seemed to change my dad, at least in my mother’s eyes, and kind of in […]
Communications
When last we left we were talking about the problems that crop up when two parties don’t negotiate in good faith. Although sometimes I think some people do that on purpose because they enjoy the conflict, overall I tend to believe that most parties would rather find ways to talk to each other and get […]
There’s an interesting uprising going on in Wisconsin these days. The state is having money problems, like every other state, and the governor of the state is ready to take some moves that may or may not be legal. Of course the people against it aren’t happy and there are daily protests occurring, sometimes a […]
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 […]