Future Vision
My cousin Cliff usually posts silly jokes on Facebook. For example, he offered one that said, “If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving’s not for you.” Hilarious. But today he…
Category: Success
Jesus: Introvert, Part 4
And your point is . . . ? I saw somebody recently wearing a hat that carried that snarky question. Tuesday night, as I sat in a meeting and listened…
Jesus: Introvert, Part 3
Dog person? Cat person? To my mind this split in the human psyche is one of the great moral indicators of our time. I’m an unapologetic dog person, and frankly…
Jesus: Introvert, Part 2
“Blake just doesn’t say much.” I must have heard my mother say this 20 times about my taciturn nephew. Indeed, Blake is not a big conversationalist. He’s not one for…
Jesus: Introvert, Part 1
The job applicant, K., came in and made such a tepid impression on me that I assumed we were wasting our time listening to her for the next hour. By…
The Needle Detector
Confession Time: I fled my house today in order to avoid a visit from the mother of my former son-in-law. Actually, I wasn’t exactly fleeing. I just didn’t want to…
Frosties or Sugar Puffs?
I only got a couple of minutes into Bandersnatch, the dark Black Mirror-related interactive movie on Netflix, before I had to pause it and sit, paralyzed, staring at the screen. You see,…
¡No Va!
They say that when the Chevy Nova was introduced, it didn’t sell as well as expected in Latin America. Why? The name means “doesn’t go.” The fact that this little…
