Brad Roller, our Vistage (peer group) Chairman, kept a stuffed toy potato within reach during our meetings. Here’s why. Part of the Vistage discipline was how we processed issues. A...
Truly Funny : Our family has many large humans, mostly men, whose size has drawn some funny lines over the years. One favorite was the clothing salesman who greeted my...
In business, all I own is a hammer, so everything looks like a nail. That hammer is supply and demand. I measure it for every product or service I invest...
Truly Funny | Lost in Translation: Toddler Edition
By Tim McCarthy
August 4, 2026
Truly Funny : Reminder to all parents to write down words your toddler gets a little wrong! On our annual family vacation this past week, our 18 month old, Isla,...
“As you discover something you are encoded for and you love doing it, then you can’t help but want to do it more, which means you can’t help but get...
PT Barnum famously said, “there is a sucker born every minute”. If he were still around, he would love the new investment “products” that have become multi-billion-dollar business categories since...
Truly Funny : We no longer wonder who our daughter’s 15-month-old girl, Isla Maeve, will be like when she grows up. Recently she was sitting on the grass at the...
My Uncle John was a prominent physician in Lakewood, Ohio, practicing from the 1930s through the 1970s. His wife Ruth was a sociable woman who loved entertaining. One afternoon, she...
This morning I sat in a training room preparing for my tenth year as a precinct election official — my fifteenth election day, give or take. Somewhere between the review...
