Archive for July, 2008
The year was 1976 and life had knocked me down on my (you know what). Things were not going well. I was married with two children and had absolutely no direction. Then someone suggested I go see a movie named, ” Rocky”. I actually had never heard of the movie or the actors or had [...]
The headline of the front page of the USA Today on Wednesday, July 17, 2008, was this: “Signs of a growing crisis – ‘Relentless flow’ of bad economic news suggests there’s no easy way out.” The headline continues by summing it up this way: “Dow – Blue-chip stocks down 21.2% in past year — Inflation [...]
When my daughter was 8 years old, we bought a house with a swimming pool. Being young and foolish, there were two things that I wasn’t sure of: 1) I wasn’t sure how I was going to pay the mortgage; and 2) even though there was an in-ground swimming pool in the backyard, I [...]
