Most mornings that Diane and I are in town, now that Spring is here, you’ll find me on the little balcony outside my home office enjoying a cup of coffee with my reading. You are welcome to join me…really…just need to get here between 6 and 7:30. If you can’t make it, we would…
We all carry around in our minds famous quotations that have stood the test of time. Some are good to know and good even to follow. . “ The unexamined life is not worth living”. (Socrates) “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” (Ben Franklin) Some might be good in…
Spring. 1958. It was a bit cool, and a misty fog had settled over the driveway when my Pop hurriedly hitched the trailer pulling his 16 foot Aluminum boat to his 57 Chevy. We were rushing a bit because it was later than we would normally leave on a Saturday morning to go fishing on Old Hickory Lake. We reached…
I was a new HR Manager for Frito-Lay in 1977 when I took the flight to Miami for a three day introduction to the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale sales region. Jerry Cavitt, the Division Sales Manager, met me for lunch at the Airport Holiday Inn where I was staying. The lunch was a really good start to my work in…
It was a nice, warm, early evening in February 1978 when I touched down at the Tampa Airport, got my rental car, drove out to Clearwater Beach and checked into The Hilton Resort. Although this twenty-eight-year-old, up and coming HR Manager needed to prepare for the following morning when I would conduct training for two of…