If ever I’d thought that deluge would roar;      That blistering blizzard of sleet. . . If ever I’d thought those winds would blow;      Those ravaging waves complete!    Could I ever have thought I’d deliver us all;      With safe passage through that heat? What arrogance would I have shown;      As if it was [...]

I remember, years ago, taking the est training. It was way back and certainly within the first decade of its infancy. I can remember any number of takeaways and many stay with me today. As a matter of fact, I can probably say that the primary life drivers for my perception of reality today came [...]

It occurred to me that, at a certain point in one’s life, you go from crafting your own originality in your earlier younger years to being concerned about being trapped by that originality years later. It’s as if the early originality becomes your personal prison if you can’t break free of it later. The French cuffs and [...]

A Few Introductory Comments Jordan, just out of the 9th grade, is in a summer composition program at Lake Highland.  He was asked, as his opening assignment, to write an essay on a topic which affected him personally. He wrote it, and after it was finished, he asked me if I would read it. I [...]

You know, for the longest time, I simply published to the blog.  I didn’t treat it as an interactive communciation.  And I didn’t even check what was written. Now that I continue to look at it…and interestingly, for every one comment I get directly on LifeInBusiness, I get anywhere from 25 to 50 private or personal messages. A [...]

When I sit out here tonight, I’m reminded of the hitchhiking trip Dave Strobel and I took from Notre Dame to New Orleans for our spring break 1970. It was a long time ago, of course. And yet, as I sit on the dock and feel the air tonight, I feel the exact same sensation. [...]

Definition of God as the set of all sets; namely infinity.

She rounded the bushes at 141 Trismen from the Iofreddo house, as if she had dropped in from a different dimension in time.  She looked at me, at 6 years old, and started talking.  She started talking, as she always did.  “Daddy, you wouldn’t believe what just happened today.”  It’s not that anything that happened today was [...]

I’ve never been in the military. My Dad was. He was Air Force. He fought in World War II . . . in Italy. He took his discharge after the war, spent two years in civilian life, and went back into the military with my mom, the first Italian war bride. He spent the next 20 [...]

I got an email the other day from a friend. I thought I would share it with you. Let me give you the context of why I thought it worthwhile. As I have been fighting the demons of this dark period over the past several months, I’ve been attempting not only to deal with the day [...]