Cinco de Mayo
Americans will celebrate anything. It doesn’t matter if it’s Super Bowl Weekend when you don’t watch football all year or St. Patrick’s Day when you’re not Irish, most Americans don’t need much of an excuse to throw a party. Today is Cinco de Mayo, which translates to “Fifth of May” in Spanish, and marks the […]
My Friday, My Monday
I’ve had the entire week off, and now that it’s Friday, I’m already dreading the alarm clock Monday morning. This week has gone by in a blur and I don’t even drink anymore. I had jury duty Monday. There were people there who I wouldn’t want deciding my fate no more than I’d want to […]
Obama Signs Health Care Bill
President Obama signed into law a national health care reform bill today. This is supposed to help approximately 34 million Americans who don’t have health care. Here are two people who may need it. Theresa Sokaitis, of Middletown Connecticut, age 87, is suing her sister Rose Bakaysa, of Plainville, Conn., age 84, for not sharing […]
Mo’Nique at the Oscars
Does anyone even care about the Oscars anymore? Sure, I know the actors and actress do, it helps validate their careers. I’m talking about normal, everyday Americans? Anyone? I tried to watch the gliter-and-glitz but they played so many commercials that I just kept flipping back and forth from the Oscars to a repeat of […]
NYU Professor Flames Student
I have grand delusions of being a college professor one day. I guess it’s the idea of sitting around, smoking a pipe and discussing deep intellectual thoughts that turns me on. That is until I read this article about a business student at NYU who showed up to her class an hour late. The professor […]
Super Bowl Commercials
Well the game yesterday turned out to be a lot better than I expected. It was a close one most of the game. Our party is filled with good cooks, so the food was great as always. And this year, no chairs were thrown and there was hardly any screaming at the TV. In Super […]
Goal Setting–Enjoy the Process
Enjoy the Process There’s no reason to rush a process. Rushing just gets you more busy-ness not business. You can try to stay on track but occasionally you’ll be all over the place. You have to get focused. There’s a poster hanging on the wall right outside my office that says, “Winners have to have […]