i’ll call her lucy

i’ll call her lucy

She was speeding around from table-to-table like a bee to flowers, all 4 feet of her, her gray hair in a buzz cut.    I’ll call her Lucy.  It was a warm summer afternoon in 2021 and the pandemic era shut down was slowly beginning to ease.  We still wore masks and held...
roar on!

roar on!

In the early years of my consultancy I readily worked for very little or no money. I thought, as a newbie in the marketplace, this was a good way to get my name out into the business community. As straightforward as this logic appeared to me, within the first five...
the thing about change | part 1: like? dislike?

the thing about change | part 1: like? dislike?

On March 12, 2022, virtually all the media airwaves were reminding us of the 2-year anniversary of the world shutting down due to COVID.  In every proclamation, there was another C-word that was being used even more than Covid and that word was CHANGE.  The frequency...
Spring Bargains

Spring Bargains

My flat-screen TV shares a wall with two big windows, one on each side, that look out into my backyard. This wall had been little more than a great design concept until an early morning in March 2021 when it transformed into a laboratory of existential discovery. It...

The Difference is in the Middle

Think of your favorite sandwich or maybe you are a bigger fan of America’s favorite dunkable cookie – the Oreo.  The best part of those pleasurable packages is in the middle.  One might say “the most valuable part”.  The middle is also where we can exercise the most...

The Power Of Speech

It has been over 2 years since I spoke at TEDx Dayton.  Evidently, the message is timeless in that it still resonates. Recently someone emailed me after watching my TEDx Talk for the first time.  He had some questions after watching my story and wanted to share his...