Is nostalgia an escape to the past?

Enjoying thoughts of times gone by does focus on what was rather than what is.  However, most people don’t live in the past, so an occasional trip back to the “good old days” is a pleasurable diversion.  This mental process may also provide a valuable perspective on how to more effectively deal with the problems [...]

Happy Birthday America

It’s been a long 235 years since a group of early American’s risked their livelihoods, their possessions and their very lives when the Founding Fathers signed The Declaration of Independence.  These were our first heroes and we learned about their courage through American History lessons beginning in the elementary grades all the way through high [...]

We can learn from IBM as the company celebrates 100 years in business

IBM has come to be synonymous with America businesses acumen for building, refining and expanding at home and globally.  The firm has thrived over a span of time that included two world wars and many lesser ones, the great depression and a number of financial bumps in the road, periods of fantastic growth as well [...]

Nobody made sacrifices like the greatest generation

Over the Memorial Day weekend just past, several movie networks paid tribute to those who served in the armed forces during WWII.  Watching these films made me realize how much they sacrificed in order for us to remain free.  Maybe we can take a page from their book and apply it to overcoming the continuing [...]

The sounds of summer

If you stop for a moment or two and focus on the carefree days of youth when school was finished and there was nothing to do but play all day long, those wonderful sounds of summer may come to mind.  I grew up in the city, so my memories might be different than yours; but [...]

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