Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year in the United States.  On that day profits are higher for the retailers than any other day in the year.  (The word ‘black’ is an accounting term which means profits instead of loss—sales being in the ‘black’ versus being in the ‘red’.)
 
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The 2009 American Idol was named last Wednesday evening and not without a great deal of controversy.  Kris Allen, the 23 year old referred to by the media as the “guy-next-door”, is the new American Idol.  Adam Lambert, the 27 year old whom the media dubbed the “guyliner”, is the runner up.  Leading up to [...]

This afternoon I was driving along and listening to If Today Was Your Last Day by Nickelback.  Since it is one of my favorites, I listen to the song frequently but for some reason today as I listened I felt a desire to write about it.  Now as I sit here typing, I’ve decided that [...]

Most people in the U.S. are aware that this Sunday May 10 is Mother’s Day and most people are still in a quandary as to what to give their mother.  Every year we hear people saying they just do not know what to “buy” their mother.  Well, we strongly believe there is one gift that [...]

Running a front-of-room leaders’ program this week I was reminded of the simple, yet multi-layered book called “Who Moved My Cheese?”  It’s been around for a while now yet provides us with both a metaphor and microcosm of what surrounds us day-in, day-out.
Life is an unfathomable maze and if we dare to step out of [...]