Leadership, a definition May 13, 2012

Leadership is the act of getting someone else to do something you want done and he wants to do it because you want him to.

Addenidum April 29, 2012

To my definition of a Christian as someone who is useful and compassionate, I’d like to append that, of course, there are many non-Christians who are useful and compassionate.  In my book, the true Christian performs even in moments demanding personal sacrifice.

What is a Christian? April 29, 2012

The best definition I’ve come across is someone who is useful and compassionate.

Test post 4/28 April 28, 2012

To see if this gets added..

April 10, 2012 April 11, 2012

This is a test entry.  I have a sense that some of my items are not going through and am testing to see if this one does.

Raise? or a title? April 6, 2012

Lately, have you noticed in the press, television, movies an upgrading in professional titles of people in the professions and business??  New names have replaced old ones:  a dentist’s assistant is now an hygienicist.  A secretary is not necessarily that, but a personal assistant.  A decorator is now an interior designer.  Personnel departments are now [...]

Small vices March 29, 2012

Don;t know how many small vices readers may have, but Yours Truly has a slew–nose-fiddling, skin-picking, mirror-watching, mind-changing, sitting too much.  It’s not that I like doing them–they just occur, without choice.  Fight each one as it comes?  Will try, but as soon as I stop, I will forget my resolve and do it again.

An apology to the Dutch March 20, 2012

The people of Holland, also known as the Dutch, have a hard time of it.  Why?  Because the word Dutch is used in so many disparaging phrases.   Someone is in Dutch, meaning in disgrace, in trouble.  Dutch treat  is no treat at all, everyone pays for himself. Dutch courage is courage inspired by drink.  And so [...]

Cat or computer? March 17, 2012

A big decision may be looming, a choice between  the cat, Aurora Borealis, and the computer.  Aurora has taken a dislike to technology and shows it by squatting on the keys and not budging. Yours Truly has moved to the dining-room table to handwrite this, hoping to record it properly when the feline moves.

Parents and kids March 14, 2012

It strikes Yours Truly that Americans have a special relationship with their children, one that isn’t evident in other cultures.  They play with them, help them with homework, join them on the merry-go-round.  Are we grown-up kids?  I remember summers when the papas in the neighborhood, mostly foreign-born, did not bat the ball with their [...]