Why No One Played “Followed the Leader” on The Ski Slope

My family likes to go skiing with me for the same reason people go to NASCAR races: they like to see spectacular crashes.  I try not to disappoint them so I frequently have what is termed, “double-eject yard sales,” which means I’ve crashed so hard my skis go down the...
How to Use Images to Enrich Your Public Presentations

How to Use Images to Enrich Your Public Presentations

How many Power Point presentations have you endured hoping it was still socially acceptable to hurl rotten vegetables and fruit at the speaker? The nature of my profession has parked me in the audience of countless presentations. Some, I have wondered how on earth the...
How I Learned to Give Myself Advice

How I Learned to Give Myself Advice

Driving in a fog I saw the train at the last second. If my reaction time had been a nanosecond slower, I most likely would not be writing these words.  The fog was so thick it was like looking through glasses smeared with gray Vaseline. For sixty miserable miles...