Successful lives and businesses are entirely built on interdependence. In both, the key ingredients are time, self-awareness, and forgiveness; of myself and those on whom I must rely. The alignment...
Over the holiday, our granddaughter asked Alice and me if we could reject her “new cousins” who will enter the family upon her aunt’s marriage - two girls with whom...
The last thing I expected when I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science was that I would have a successful business career. My pursuit of a...
Editor’s Note: Warning: Do not read this book if you don’t have a strong stomach for explicit language and homosexuality, which I don’t by the way and yet the...
In honor of college football season, I recall the funniest actual quote from a football coach I’ve ever heard. About 25 years ago at the Big Ten season opening news...
Alice and I stood with Caitlin and her boyfriend at a music festival along the Chattanooga River. The lights came on, a church-sounding organ began, and a man’s voice filled...
In my first job out of college, I worked with a fifty-something bachelorette named Alice Shoenholtz who often made me think and just as often, made me laugh. Once I...
Shakespeare’s “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” and the Bible’s “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave of the lender” have been entirely ignored by...
Our mother called humor “medicine for the soul”. My brother, Terry, easily the funniest McCarthy, is currently in hospice and I overheard this exchange while the nurses were working...
