Yesterday, a group of people I know were going out to lunch and asked me to join them. Unfortunately, I was tied up in another meeting and unable to attend. But I was a little hungry and they were kind…
I came from a family that didn’t have an extraordinary amount of disposable income. We didn’t live in poverty or anything, but Grandpa used to say that Mom could spend more with a spoon than Dad could make with a…
I drove down to Evansville late this afternoon in preparation for meetings in the morning. I get to head back to Indy after work on Tuesday and then work locally for the rest of the week. After days of rain,…
This past Friday, Janet and some of her friends were having lunch together at a local restaurant – The Original Pancake House. The place is not open for dinner and closes after the lunch crowd is finished – in the…
Lately, I have been asked some pretty tough questions and to be sure, I don’t know the answers to many of them. But, unfortunately, that doesn’t change the fact that people come to me and pose quite a number of…
Tuesday evening, I spent the night down in Evansville preparing to visit the client I work with on the east side of town. A co-worker of mine also was down in the area working at another location and since we…
Last year, Janet and I started watching a new series on television entitled, “The Blacklist.” It stars James Spader, among others, and he became one of my favorite actors several years ago when he and William Shatner played opposite each…
I’m on a rant today. I guess it’s the culmination of a bunch of stuff that is going on in our personal lives that is incredibly frustrating. And just because it will be cathartic for me, and perhaps some of…
As most of you know, Janet and I spend quite a bit of our lives together – we are rarely apart and if we are, it isn’t for very long. In fact, I think for the first 30 years of…
I received a call from our grandson, Connor, last Sunday and he wanted to know if I could help him with an assignment for school. Apparently, he had to write a composition on somebody in the family and there were…