Bruce Lee said it: strip away the distraction of things you don’t need and you make room for what matters. This principle applies to business and life as well as it does martial arts. This exercise may feel unproductive (it is not) – you can’t distinguish the wheat from the chaff while multitasking or juggling […]
With a kind request that you all … Keep politics out of my childhood memories
One lesson I continue to learn is the value of preparation and diligent research. The temptation to cut corners is a constant in modern life. Technology makes surrendering to rote copy and pasting even easier than when I was in school. It is never a good idea. President’s Day reminded me of a story about […]
The American justice system’s bedrock is accountability, enforced by citizen juries guaranteed by the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution. Every day, individuals in American courtrooms are held responsible (or not) for their actions – in criminal and civil courts. The day any one person – or group of people – are considered immune from this […]
Do we know more and understand less more quickly in the age of the internet? With a fraction of the effort consumed by library trekking in the past, platforms like Wikipedia now give us immediate access to “answers”. As we know, these sources hardly bear the authority of the Library of Alexandria. – but the […]
James Brown took to the bridge. Robert Plant, too, was looking for the “confounded” bridge when Jimmy Page borrowed a James Brown riff on Led Zeppelin’s song, The Crunge. In music, a bridge represents a change that separates and connects the front and back ends of the song. For the listener, it adds variety and […]
You packed your bags and all alone you wanna ride You don’t want nothing, don’t need no one by your side You’re walking tough, baby, but you’re walking blind To the ties that bind Glue and cloth, providing a strong cover that holds pages together. A chemical reaction, solidly joining like compounds. A fastener, combining […]
Finally, we outline possible clinical disorders associated with vaping on pulmonary health and the recent escalation of acute lung injuries, which led to the declaration of the vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) outbreak. It is clear there is much about vaping that is not understood. Consequently, until more is known about the health effects […]
Every kid grows up with the right to strut their stuff without apology or fear.
When I was a kid, Pete Maravich was the first basketball player to have his own shoe line. Its hard to imagine that there was a time when athletes didn’t have their own shoe contracts. All I knew is that I wanted a pair and wanted to be able fill the hoop like Pistol Pete. […]
