That’s Life
Life Can Be A Rim Shot “That’s Life” Please don’t let it pass you by You may have noticed as time fleets by we folks experience some vagaries which manage to jump out at us. Some can actually be mild blips that become merely a momentary bumpy swatch on our road toward success. Others come...
Read More A Blessing On His Soul
It was this past Tuesday, April 25th, that Harry Belafonte passed away from us. He was ninety-six years of age. And though I never had the pleasure of meeting the man, his work will remain with me emotionally forever as an activist. Harry was a man amongst men. Shari, our love goes out to you....
Read More Global Gadfly
“Global Gadfly, That Would Be Me” Hello everybody, Today, as you may assume by my erstwhile title of the latest attempt at logic, this is coming at you regardless of the part of the world you happen to be in at this very minute. What you haven’t been told, or explained, I’m here to learn...
Read More Try Bracing Yourself
“Try Bracing Yourself” Today, I happen to be wearing a back brace. Some pain to complain about, but, an awful lot to be happy and prayerful about as well. It could have knocked me on my ass except for a couple of facts always there to battle, whomever and whatever it is, whose solitary goal...
Read More Sh*t Happens
“Sh*t Happens” As they say… “In life, sh*t happens!” And when you become an aggravated recipient of the same, you might often feel like a receptacle for what a higher being ordered up for you. The older we become, the greater our chances are of having any number of games recklessly thrust upon us. For...
Read More Billy Rose
“Billy Rose” Helping to build the industry we’re in today! His life, his work, his love of flair for performers, and their life and times —always in a faster lane than most! “Rose was born in New York City. While in high school, Billy studied shorthand. He won a dictation contest taking over 150 words...
Read More In My Travels
“In My Travels” I write many of these things because, for such a very long time now, I find myself unhappy with the many of my brethren who honestly don’t give a damn about history being a continual restoration of vigorously being repeated over and over again… “Oh, yeah…who put you in charge?” complained a...
Read More For Adults & Children of All Ages
For Adults & Children of All Ages “Pronouncement” (not necessarily to be believed) I’ll begin another of my harangue-type of Sunday communications to all of my favorite people out there in “reading land”, who mercifully have fallen onto my bandwagon of followers. Please be advised, mine is the form of wagon one becomes hooked...
Read More Things That Make Us Smile
Things That Make Us Smile It’s early in the morning of a typical work day This cold morning “the sun is a shining to welcome our day” As the brits would say, come to the fare Yours, or savor alone Come to the fare this morning Whatever you think it means...
Read More Because You Asked…
“Because You Asked…” QUESTION ONE: From the mouth of a former student after completing his Working Pro class — six weeks with Cathy Kalmenson — during our Q & A. The student raised his hand and proceeded with what he thought was an important question of me: “Da harv, how did...
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