When Did You Realize You Were Old?

When Did You Realize You Were Old?

I remember when I asked my father “when did you realize that you were old?” He gave me a strange look and said “only when I look in the mirror.” I will be 72 next week and I really don’t feel older and the only real difference in my life is that I don’t have a “real...
Have We Reached the Point of No Return?

Have We Reached the Point of No Return?

Are you being bombarded with as many shrill, emergency sounding, requests for money from your own local politicians… as I am? The “end of the world” is here… unless you send in at least $5… or in the VERY least… $1. I don’t like it much and I suspect that most of you...
A Democrat, a Republican…or what?

A Democrat, a Republican…or what?

I used to be a Republican. Then I voted Democrat. Now? Like many others, I am “independent”. But sadly, like a huge number of others that are disappointed, angry and tired of being manipulated by countless emails asking me for money… or by the media… or any number of...

REINVENTION…”is it really possible?”

We read a lot of “feel good” articles about change and reinvention… but what does it really mean to “reinvent” yourself? Can it be done? How do you do it? Is there a set of directions? A lot of us dream about change… we dream about a new life… a fresh start without...

“I thought it would be easier!”

A large percentage of LinkedIn members are entrepreneurs and have their own businesses… whether it be products or services… …we’re basically on our own. And we all know the percentages of small businesses that fail, right? But we’re optimists…and we think that success...

“Getting Old Sucks…”

It Sucks Getting Old… The Baby Boomer generation is getting older. For a long time the world was ours. We changed history… we stopped wars… and the world as we knew it…well, we shaped it to what we wanted. We demonstrated… we marched…some of us went to war and others...

“you better hurry… he hasn’t got much longer”

Ten years ago my friend Wes tried to kill himself. He had ( at least what I thought…) was a thriving  pest control business he had started nearly 20 years ago. We were in each other’s weddings, had been there for each other through thick and thin… the good times, and...