Personal Behavior

Many years ago I went with a friend of mine to a Syracuse University football game. I haven’t been to a lot of football games over the years, which is why I seem to remember them better than I remember all the basketball games I’ve been to (except for the Pearl Washington shot). My friend […]

I love the Janet Evanovich series of books with the main character named Stephanie Plum. She’s a bounty hunter, though not a good one. She has these series of misadventures as she goes along trying to catch whomever she’s been designated to bring in, and many of the misadventures are indirect results of something she’s […]

Are we as Americans getting ruder? I wondered about this one evening when another consultant and I were on an elevator. It stopped on the next floor, and a woman got on who was speaking on a cell phone. My friend and I were talking, and she started speaking louder because, obviously, we were ruining […]

It seems that many people have found a way to get around their stance against politically correct speech. They say or do what they want, then when they’re called on it they apologize after the fact. But the apology is not only false, but they don’t apologize for what they’ve done. Instead, they apologize if […]

I spend a lot of time telling people that they need to have trust and faith in themselves if they want to succeed in life. I also tell people that if they believe in themselves then it doesn’t matter what anyone else has to say; go out and give it a shot. While I still […]