Posted in Blog on May 28th, 2010
The veteran was neat as a pin, freshly shaved, wearing Mr. McGoo glasses, complete with the character’s confused sweetness. He was dressed in a lint-free, wrinkle-free sport coat, trousers, VA baseball cap, his cane and bedroom slippers. He talked with the bus driver for quite some time. I was late of course and needed to [...]
An odd twist of circumstances led me to live for two months in a bungalow where I shared a kitchen with two other housing units. A Punjabi Indian couple, completing their residencies at local hospitals, lived on the first floor with their beautiful eight-month-old daughter. An engineer lived in the basement apartment, a refugee from [...]
Posted in Blog on Oct 15th, 2009
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell’s new book splendidly portrays what can happen when brilliance meets advantage and opportunity. And what doesn’t happen when brilliance runs into the brick wall of family dysfunction. Gladwell’s premise is that those who spectacularly outperform everyone else were not just brilliant, they were also able to take advantage of the opportunities that [...]
Posted in Blog on Sep 4th, 2009
The economy is no longer in free fall – GREAT! Too many of our countrymen are on economic life support or should be – BOOHOO! Speculation about the jobless recovery is chilling. Many predict that our old ways of spending are gone forever. That is necessary, appropriate and painful. By not spending, less money is [...]
Posted in Blog on Mar 20th, 2009
Wall Street’s betrayal of the American public triggered the worldwide economic tsunami that threatens millions worldwide.