Fruitful Detours
Connection is critically important for all of us. We are social beings, dependent on others from the time we are born. But it was not until recently that I discovered just how dependent I am on my cellphone to keep me connected. I grew up with an old fashioned wired phone on the wall of […]
The number of great ideas in our world is unlimited. We barely scratch the surface of ideas as we study in school. I’ve always been curious and am constantly on the lookout for helpful theories or new subjects of interest. Here are a few great thinkers that have had a big impact on my life so […]
To start at the beginning, click here. They went to a small room. Several people had apparently seen the confrontation between the cowboy and the drunk aide.“You didn’t know the man?”“Never met him before tonight.”“Why were you arguing?”“We weren’t. He made some dumb comments, and we left. I don’t think I said anything.”“What kind of […]
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzger gave a commencement speech at Northwestern University in June, 2023. There were several entertaining parts of the speech. I learned a new word — “cheugy.” (It’s pronounced choo-gy.) According to the Urban Dictionary, cheugy is the “opposite of trendy” and is used when someone follows out-of-date trends. Pritzger says it means […]
The following chart gave me a shock. It doesn’t look like much at first. But then I started thinking, and doodling, and checking off boxes. I encourage you to print this first blank chart, and do the same thing. Then my chart looked like this: As I checked all these little boxes, several things stood […]