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TRUST BOOMERS EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE DOES. HERE’S WHY:

November 24, 2020 by

When there’s no one else to trust, trust boomers. What have you got to lose? ‘Mid-century modern‘ is such a design craze, what’s more mid-century than baby boomers. We’ve done the things that nostalgia looks back on, listened to classic rock the first time around, and made it out in one piece. What more could […]

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EXPERIENCE + KNOWLEDGE = TRUST, (if trust matters)

March 25, 2020 by

Who hopes the person collecting checks has enough experience to know what to do? I trust the automatic teller at my bank. I put a check in a pneumatic tube, push send, and a face comes on the screen, a face I automatically trust. If the bank trusts them, I trust them, even though we’re […]

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REALITY vs STAGED: TRUST YOUR JUDGEMENT MORE THAN THE DREAM

December 4, 2019 by

Who hasn’t had reality bite them on the butt when they see a new place and say, “I thought it would be different.” It’s a companion piece to, “This doesn’t look like I imagined.” Not to leave out, “I’m still glad to be here.” When I visited Versailles I had expectations, which were fueled by […]

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How Older Men Express Themselves When No One Is Around To Call BS

July 18, 2018 by

  I knew older men who’d been everywhere, done everything, and could drive any car ever invented.   They’d had every job from sales executive to mailman, to factory worker, to fighter pilot in three wars. Sometimes it was true.   One of them said he was shot down and imprisoned on a Japanese held […]

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TRUST THE PROCESS FROM THE START

January 29, 2018 by

    Starting a project, a diet, a savings plan? Trust the process.   The first day is all magical. One screenwriter said a days work at the beginning of a new script means putting a title on a piece of paper and putting it in a drawer for tomorrow.   Cutting carrots follows a […]

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MODERN BLOGGERS BY THE NUMBERS

June 16, 2016 by

FOR SALE: modern bloggers and their markets. Go to any bookstore or library and get ready to be overwhelmed by the selections of the printed word. From the looks of it people can’t stop writing, talking, talking about writing, writing about talking. And then there’s the hook. The more you learn about the writer, the […]

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BABY BOOMER YOUTH GAMES

October 20, 2015 by

Could Kids Today Benefit From The Game Of Stretch Or Mumbly Peg? If Millennials and the rest of us want to meet on level ground, we must learn to share our games. A game on television is the easy part. Click a station, then another, until you find a game you both want to watch. […]

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