Come Together, Right Now
Over the past 6 months we’ve been bombarded by a bewildering uncertainty. Pandemic, self isolation, quarantine, social distance and mask...
Stockholm Syndrome
I witnessed a heated conversation between a Trump supporter and Trump critic. The conversation, which oddly had nothing to do with...
Debt Comparison
Our debt had always been in lieu of something significant and justifiable. WWII was the last time we accrued debt as enormous as todays....
Kids
We were living on the 6th floor with a view of a mega daycare. At recess times the playground teemed with tyke mayhem. Beings of like...
Fiscal Child Abuse
Blog 36 Our debt and what it means to future generations is nothing short of fiscal child abuse. This abuse is every bit as damaging to...
The Success Sequence
Blog 35 There is wealth to be found in expectations. One formula that has proven effective is ‘The Success Sequence.’ With a foundation...
Gather at Normal
Blog 34 We as a nation are consumed by a hyper-sensitivity which cannot be ignored. Now, more than ever our problem solving must be...
Same Page
Blog 33 The deficit for the year 2019 was around 1 trillion, which was the amount spent over the allotted budget for that year. Like it...
Gotta TRY!
Blog 32 Diarrhea kills over 2000 children a day. What makes this particularly tragic is that the prevention is well known, inexpensive,...
ILL-Timed? I Think Not.
Blog 31 The Dare To Be Audacious Tour might seem ill-timed, what with an election, the pandemic and world wide economic upheaval, but...
TAXED
Blog 30 Our tax code is complicated and thousands of pages long. The result of this is hundreds of billions of tax revenue that goes...
Pearl Harbor
Blog 29 By-in-large, we go through our daily lives working, playing, shopping, worshiping and intermingling together civilly. The fact...
Be Counted
Blog 28 Say what you would like (or don’t like) about the debates - “My guy won!!!” These people are not like us…they are not Normal....
WE Will Get There...
Blog 27 Reardan, Davenport, and Harrington made up the communities of the first stop of the Dare To Be Audacious Tour. We’re in farm...
Tax avoidance
Blog 26 The only thing I found surprising about the revelations of President Trump paying little in taxes over the years, was that some...
Dare to Be Audacious Tour
Blog 25 Ya know something? I really like “Us”, we’re just great! And our nation’s debt does not reflect who “We” are. The debt is in fact...
Stop The Presses
Blog 24 I spoke to a friend who has been enjoying his newfound retirement. He pointed out that his life had not been significantly...
Social Closeness
Blog 23 I once read about the community of Roseto, Pennsylvania. Roseto was made up of Italian immigrants that seemed to defy medical...
EXPECTATIONS ... PLEASE
Blog 22 There are those who have accused us as a nation of apathy. It's suggested that we’d rather plant our head in the sand and...
Do No Harm
Blog 21 I wrote a blog that asserted that our debt and what it means to future generations was a sin. Betsy, our editor, cautioned that...