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I was asked to post my optimist joke from Tuesdays' presentation at Changing Hands Book Store. Sometimes you just have to be able to READ stuff. An Optimist and a Pessimist walk into a bar on 2 for 1 night. The optimist says, “Bartender, drinks for my pessimist friend...
On Saturday, June 15th (National Smiles Day) Contagious Optimism was officially "released" by Viva Editions. I am proud to be listed as 1 of 100+ "co-authors" in this 1st volume and I urge you to not just buy/read the book, but to contemplate the message being...
I just got back from 3 days at the Albuquerque Book Fiesta where I did a "reading" from and promoted the new book "Contagious Optimism" for 3 days. In general the conference was poorly attended and many authors were angry and frustrated. Sitting at table with an...
I believe it was John Naisbitt back in 1982, forecasting that the combination of technology induced isolation coupled with the ability to selectively access information that re-enforces your personal bias, would lead to more and more individual acts of terrorism. ...
Here’s to Delores King, the quintessential mother bear who, for over 65 years, fiercely defended her 10, YES TEN, offspring against all who would dare to even think about doing them harm. While diminutive in stature relative to her towering husband and 6 sons, the...
I'll admit it. Shakespeare makes my head spin. To read it is to ache in head as the hammers of a thousand smithies pound the sense of it into that which author may have intended. To hear it is to succumb at once to wicked deafness of babble uttered in tongues...
Out here in the Southwest desert we have a puffed pastry called Sopapilla. Per our friends at Wikipedia (the only large scale NON-PROFIT engine of Information exchange) "It is generally served as a dessert with honey poured between its two layers...(sometimes...
Last week my wife's new Kindle Fire arrived. We call her "Easy Reader" because words on a page are more than she can resist. She still insists we subscribe to a Daily Newspaper for her reading comfort, but it is now clear to me, that she has been won over by eNews...
We just got new mobile phones. I still call them mobile phones because to me "Cell" phone conjures up images of Jimmy Cagney talking to his mouth piece thru the glass at Sing Sing. But Mobile Phone is so archaic, heretofore I will use the term Mobi (pronounced...
Two weeks ago my granddaughter completely forgot about her Karate Banquet. So did her mother. 24 hours later tears were shed over the missed opportunity. She so wanted to go back. And, nine and half years into her life she came to the realization that yesterday is...
In the fourth grade, I learned more about what I didn't know than in any other single year of my educational career. The wit and charm that had served me so well during my first 4 years were no match of the stern gaze of Mrs Maloney. "eGods and little fishes, Mr...
When I started this blog back in 2007 it was, I thought, just a good way to promote my book. Over the years it became a way for me to deal with the rush of technological change altering not just how we read but how we gather our information. More recently, while...