Last Updated on February 4, 2014Many years ago, I worked in public relations for the JCPenney Company. James Cash Penney, the founder of the now giant retailer, based his business philosophy on one simple notion: “do unto others as you would have others do unto you” –The Golden Rule. In fact, his first store was […]
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Last Updated on October 31, 2018 Thousands of years ago when men were carrying clubs and wearing little fur loincloths, adrenaline was a life saver. You could count on its rapid fire results to propel you through the hunt or when some wild beast was hunting you. Adrenaline still gives us that jolt of energy […]
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Last Updated on November 6, 2018Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they […]
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Last Updated on January 2, 2016When was the last time your age stopped you from doing something? For me it was recently when I was wearing a particular outfit, and I saw the look of horror on my teenage daughter’s face. My brain doesn’t even have to catch up with the notion that I’m too […]
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Last Updated on November 1, 2018I’m reading the book Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I think I’m the last person on Earth to read it, and now I know what all of the hoopla is about. It’s a delightfully engaging book about feeding the body, feeding the soul, and feeding the heart. Ms. Gilbert […]
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Last Updated on March 19, 2019We all want love. We are hard-wired to want it. From the moment we leave the womb and enter the world, we are kicking and screaming for love and care. Babies demand love, and mothers are programmed to provide it unconditionally. (Thank God, right? Those crying, pooping, eating machines don’t […]
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Last Updated on January 21, 2017What would happen if you decided to arrive at work no earlier than 9:00 in the morning and left at 5:00 every day? Maybe you already have that kind of job, and if so, you’re excused from reading this post. But this isn’t most of us. I was talking to […]
Continue ReadingLast Updated on November 1, 2018So we are in the thick of it now. It’s mid-February, and we are hovering in the windy, dark corners of the winter season. The holidays are a distant memory and spring seems still buried under the cold, hard earth. Here in Atlanta we have seen more rain and snow […]
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