Through out my fifty-some years on this earth I have had the opportunity to make casual acquaintance with several wealthy people.  Some I have worked for and talked to on a daily basis; others from a more distant perspective. I like to group the wealthy people that I have met…

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down, I had the radio on, I was stocking.  Wait a minute, those words are accurate, but sound vaguely like my favorite Tom Petty song. It was a beautiful day in September.  One of those rare Indian Summer days with the temperature…

COMB OR BRUSH I was trying to help an elderly gentleman by pulling his shopping cart to a shorter line and I wasn’t making much progress.  The harder I pulled the harder he pulled back.  I said “I’ve got a shorter line down here that will save you some waiting…

I took about four deep breaths and tried to relax; the GRAND OPENING was over !!! It all started four weeks earlier when the great minds at the corporate office on the east coast decided that our company needed a change in image.  The announcement came down:  YOUR STORE WILL…

Remember when you were a kid and you made up shows or plays to put on in the neighborhood.  What, you never did that?  Boy did you miss out.  I think that is where my creative juices started flowing.  I remember pretending to be Pat Boone, crooning out the latest…