Rebuilding Eden

Providing that you didn’t fail miserably on the first task that I set out for you in my previous article (See Becoming Successful: Getting Started) , you should be on your way to starting your new venture. As we discussed earlier, this venture does not necessarily have to be a business. It could be that [...]

“I’m going to the store, can I get anyone anything?” That’s how most Mrs. Gravocks visits to our house started when I was younger. It seems that even though we think of our youth as a “simpler time in life”, people were always on the run. The difference however was that they announced it ahead [...]

Earlier today I was reflecting on the fact that over the past few years I have been approached dozens of times by people who are looking for a little bit of help getting their project, business, or idea off the ground. It just seems to happen. I’m not sure that I’m the kind of person who brings out [...]

Last night as I was headed into the local Wal-Mart for yet another load of groceries for my always hungry crew I grabbed a cart on the way in as I usually do. Next to me, a mother and her three kids were walking in and the eldest boy says to the mother “Mommy, should [...]

I have cause today to sit back and reflect a little bit upon the course my life has taken to this point and what I have accomplished thus far in my life. At first glance it appears to me that I have not really accomplished much. If I were to die today, what would my [...]

My name is John and I make lists. The crowd answers back in unison, “Hi John”. If there is anything that I have a need for in my life it is the list. Without it I am quickly reduced to a scatterbrained non-thinker. Even without a list on paper, I almost always have a list [...]

I just wanted to get a short note out about the recent death of Scientist Bruce Ivins. He is the latest American scientist to be accused of the  Anthrax incidents involving Ton Daschle and the Washington Post. For those of you who have been hiding under a rock, or were too busy watching MTV, he [...]

On my way out this morning I happened to notice a trailer parked underneath a bridge underpass as I was going down the highway. A quick glance was all I needed to see that this wasn’t a break down parked on the side of the road, no this was the “Butler County Sheriffs Department Chain Gang” [...]

Polls and Statistics, statistics and polls, I just can’t take it anymore! If I get one more phone call from someone “conducting a political survey” I think I am going to be sick. The bias intertwined within the questions themselves is enough to make any sane person wince, but the questions themselves seem to be [...]

If you’ve read my recent posts then you know that I spent a day in Washington, D.C. visiting my to oldest children at their school recently to celebrate my sons induction into the schools student government as the President of the Class of 2010. With the focus of our visit being a pseudo-political event, I  may [...]