Of Fleas and Flies When Thomas was a kid in early grade school, he would come over to stay with me and we would often work together on writing projects. I don’t know if he liked doing it because he is a natural writer or if he just wanted to mimic me, but he still writes a bit, so I like to think he at least enjoyed it. I think it was while I owned…
Ethical Dilemma As I prepare for my ethics course starting in a month, I am spending time thinking about the root issues of business ethics and how best to present and then teach that material to best effect. I’m fairly clear that the best method will be to force debates that engage the students and make them think through the issues I define for them. Obviously, I want to provide a framework and guidance on…
MLK and What It Means to Me Tomorrow is the national Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Holiday, commemorating the civil rights activist that was born Michael King Jr. on January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia and who preached and led the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He advocated non-violence during a violent time in America’s history and he used civil disobedience and the resultant publicity that came…
Back on the Hilltop We flew in from Florida yesterday and I cannot express how good it felt to get back home. I know that especially as we age, we become more inclined to being homebodies, but in addition to that and being around all my “stuff” (as the great George Carlin would say), I have also genuinely come to love the climate and environs of our San Diego hilltop. I have spent my life…
Life As I Know It It is the morning of January 6, 2022, so I am both keeping an eye on the news for any important developments, but at the same time I do not want to engross myself in the ongoing and continuous rehashing of the January 6th Insurrection that took place a year ago today. It is less that I don’t want to hear it or want to somehow ignore it, but rather…
On the Water Today we are spending the day with Frank and Barbara at their recently purchased home in Daytona Beach Shores. It has been explained to me that the Gulf Stream that hugs the Eastern Coast of Southern Florida, departs and heads out to the deep blue Atlantic somewhere around Jupiter, where I was a day ago. That means that the weather up here in Daytona is supposedly markedly cooler than it is down…
The Chateaux of My Mind This morning I am waking up in a lovely French Chateaux on a small tributary of the Loire River. I expect to see a riverboat with wine country tourists lounging on its deck coming past any minute. No, wait, why is there an egret high-stepping through the mangrove roots, they don’t have mangroves in France. Oh yeah, this particular Chateaux is not in the Loire Valley. I am on John’s…
The Fountain of Eternal Life We are now on the flight from Atlanta to Orlando. We had a “normal” layover in Atlanta and our flight there was not really late in arriving, but we landed at the E concourse and were taking off from the T concourse. While that’s not quite as bad as the letters make it sound, its still pretty bad. We had to take the train from E to D to C…
Swamp to Swamp This week I am hopping from swamp to swamp here in Florida, visiting friends while Kim spends more quality time with her cabaret pals at Disney, in the middle of the Orlando swamps. I have at least eight sets of friends littered up and down the East Coast of Florida from Delray Beach up to Daytona Beach. I lunched in Palm Beach Gardens with Terry and Paula and dined with Kevin and…
Nothing Can Stop Us Now Well, I am back in my Disney hotel room recuperating from my one day at Disney, in this case the Hollywood Studios park specifically. Thematically, this is where the rides, attractions and related merchandising are all connected in some way with the movies. I had forgotten how tiring a day at Disney can be. According to my iPhone step-meter, I did slightly more than what I do on a very…