A friend of mine told me a story he remembered from his days in high school. He lived, for a little while, with a friend and his friend’s dad. The dad was a well-known eye … Read the rest…
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I read that, as of yesterday January 17, 2024, his net worth is somewhere around $2.9 billion. And he recently spoke at an event in Dallas, Texas. He told the audience that when he’s about … Read the rest…
Have you ever heard of Peter X. Kelly? If you follow cooking shows or the Food Network, maybe you know who he is. I don’t really follow any of that enough to name names. But … Read the rest…
Vizzini, the little kidnapper villain in “The Princess Bride,” kept saying, “Inconceivable!” And he thought of himself as brilliant. And he took every opportunity to brag about it. But he had never conceived of the … Read the rest…
Information about Isaac Newton is probably somewhere in your head. Even if you hadn’t thought about him until right this minute after I mentioned him. Remember how he sat in the shade of an apple … Read the rest…
Most people give credit, for the following quote, to Dale Carnegie. And just in case you never heard of him. He was the guy who wrote “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” And he … Read the rest…
It’s Tuesday morning. And if you’re like most people it feels like the first day of your week. Right? Because yesterday was the first day of the year. But it was a Monday. And nobody … Read the rest…
I dare you to find a year in your life when you didn’t have any problems. Because if you live in the real world, you’re gonna experience real problems. And that’s in spite of the … Read the rest…
If you haven’t followed me for a while, you might have missed some of my poetic moments. And if that’s the case, somebody cue the sad music. Because some of them weren’t half bad. Like … Read the rest…
OK, by a show of hands, who here is old enough to remember Chubby Checker’s version of “Limbo Rock?” No one, right? Yeah, me neither. But apparently there WAS a guy with a song by … Read the rest…