Social Issues and Debatable Topics
From the wilds of Ecuador and Peru come Monkey Orchids, beautiful flowers with monkey faces (when you squeeze them the right way) If you don’t see why this orchid gets its name, move back from your screen a few feet and take another look. Close up, the similarity is good. From a distance it’s incredible. [...]
Finding an Effective Employment Sales Strategy Over ten years ago, when I was managing call centers and sales departments, I developed a solution sales and marketing strategy called PBFA. The strategy was universal in that it could be used to better understand people’s needs and help them find solutions. While I implemented the strategy primarily [...]
Mitigators Invading Google Plus Circles Mitigators, a growing breed of socially active people are joining Google Plus in droves. After a thorough study of social networking Americans, I’ve concluded that the elite in Google Plus circles and elsewhere are the greatest users of the words mitigating, mitigated and mitigate. No pie reciples online here; these [...]
Too Many Unknowns–Including the Weather Tonight, while playing with my Nexus S, three words appeared at the top of the screen: “Weather is unknown.” I have a mobile app that spits out insignificant news stories and the weather. When it launches, the weather forecast pops up for a second. Usually, it’s “45 cool overnight, 66 [...]
Selling Gold Scrap to Pay Bills? As the U.S. economy staggers along, many people are selling gold jewelry to pay their bills. In bad times, precious metals rise in value, especially gold, now selling at over $1,700 per troy ounce worldwide. Google’s index for “sellling gold scrap” now numbers over 14 million. The elderly get [...]
Time passes and I had forgotten about Jackie Evancho, a young woman with an angelic voice, who has on PBS specials with David Foster. The producer and musician who brought us Josh Groban, Foster has helped dozens of young musicians launch successful entertainment careers. Not any type of career. But music–an art form that brings joy and [...]
In these pages, I’ve written about the power of singing. Several thousand miles away in South Africa sings out a Future Hope–the Soweto Gospel Choir, kicking off their North American tour this month. Different styles, countries away. But both St. Victor’s Catholic Church in San Jose, CA and the Soweto Gospel Choir sing in their [...]
Parents and Love of Children During our lives, we meet many people. Some we admire, others not. Some bring us joy; others, sorrow. But no people form us more as human beings than our parents. I’m fortunate to have had two caring, loving parents who helped me and my sister grow up with integrity. In [...]
