Monthly Archives: August 2025

We learn at a very young age how a small number of people (often less than 10%) can redirect energy and stymie progress with noisy disruption and irrelevant distraction. And when there is no accountability and there are no consequences … Continue reading →

In today’s America I believe opportunity is more equally distributed than in decades past BUT only within each stratum of wealth, and the further one’s stratum is from the greatest wealth the more unequal opportunity becomes, and the opportunity gap … Continue reading →

My last day as a bank teller is Monday, August 18, 2025; that is 169 days employed in the position. I have learned a lot. In my letter of resignation I cited as the predominant reason the fact that we … Continue reading →

Touchstone: “something that serves as a standard or basis for comparison.” It is more than that. For me, a touchstone is larger than a simple benchmark or point of reference. For me, a touchstone grounds me; it brings me back … Continue reading →

I am in the process of writing a Cookbook. My thoughts in the paragraphs below are written to this specific end. Writer Norman Maclean on page 161 of his book “Young Men and Fire” makes the claim that “the problem … Continue reading →