Happy New Year! We hope the final weeks of 2022 were full of rest and joy for you. It was, and this is atheme of the 2020s, quite the year. A major global superpower brutally invaded a neighboring country, Covid-19 was a continued presence, inflation spiked to 9%, stock and bond markets experienced broad declines,…
“Big things come in small packages,” and the 1% Change is precisely that tiny package. What does a 1% Change do for you? A great example at the highest level is the Professional Golfers Association (PGA. Looking at the top 25 golfers in scoring average, the difference between #1 Rory McIlroy and #25 Billy Horschel….
Southern manners always suggest that one should never talk about politics, money, religion, and sex at the dinner table. We will probably touch on a few of those in the following words. If I offend you, I suggest you email me about how I have offended you. You should know that I appreciate a conversation…
College campuses will soon fill with students and families making the college trip for the first time, the Freshman arrival of the Class of 2026. This transition from child to adult is exciting, emotional, and dangerous. Do you remember the 18th birthday your child celebrated in the past year? Eighteen changes everything. Along with them…
Since the January 1987 Super Bowl where winning quarterback Phil Simms is asked “Now that you have won the Super Bowl what are you going to do?” The reply that has become a nearly 25-year advertising campaign is “I’m going to Disney World”. That is where my family spent the last week of January 2022. Heather…
Whether the Super Bowl is entertaining or not, there is always Halftime and the Super Bowl Commercials. Which might interfere with all the Valentine’s Day emails and advertisements that are showing up in every social media feed I have. This confluence of the advertising with Valentine’s Day and the Super Bowl back to back has…