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Green beans…my favorite vegetables. Always have been. Southern style; not the northern way where the beans are lightly cooked and still crunch like celery. Growing up I had green beans at least three nights per week. I still remember the cases of large cans of green beans that my grandparents stored in our basement. Fresh green beans are good…
It seems that most advisers are always telling us to “see the big picture.” In the 1990’s, a couple of management gurus even came up with the term Big Hairy Audacious Goals to describe how we should “think big”. I’m not sure if it has been a blessing or a curse, but I think that “the big picture…
My best guess is that it was 36 years ago when we first vacationed with our girls on Holiday Isle in Destin…a tradition that continued almost every year that they were with us. A highlight was the daily walk down the beach to “The Rocks” (as we called the East Pass Jetty) where we would climb around and…
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Always has been. It seems that everything about this year has been different, and mostly in a bad way for many. COVID-19 has changed the way we have been able to live our lives. And now the preparation for and the celebration of Thanksgiving has been affected as well. We are having most of…
In the late 1960’s, it would often be near midnight when several close friends and I would come back to my house on June Drive and begin basketball games on the blacktop court that doubled as our driveway. As I think back on it, I can only imagine how irritating the rhythmic pounding of the ball against the…