I hope you had a great holiday season. I had a significant scare just before Christmas that is now behind me. My wife discovered as we were hustling the garbage cans out on December 19th that I wasn’t responding to her. She announced, “I’m taking you to the ER.” While Read more…
The commute in San Francisco Bay Area is obscene. It’s gridlock. It’s killing people’s spirits and driving people to leave the area. For many, the morning drive into Silicon Valley starts at 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. The morning commute doesn’t die down until 11 or 11:30 a.m. By 1:30 pm, Read more…
Many women have been wondering why men don’t speak out about sexual harassment and sexual predators. Please indulge me. For the past couple of years, I’ve felt nauseous hearing about sexual harassment and sexual predators—people who use their power over the opposite sex to obtain advantage. It’s the notion of Read more…
Like many of my readers, you awoke to the news of the horrific act of domestic terrorism in Las Vegas this past Sunday. While I had an issue of Thank God It’s Monday written, I pulled it. It wasn’t a day for “business as usual.” I see a lot of Read more…
In the July 11, 2017, article in Fast Company.com called Are Your Ready To Consider That Capitalism Is The Real Problem, Dr. Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk write: In February, college sophomore Trevor Hill stood up during a televised town hall meeting in New York and posed a simple question Read more…
What happened this past week in Charlottesville, Virginia, could have happened anywhere in the U.S. The rallying point was a decision of the local government to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, general of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the U.S. Civil War. The agitators in the Read more…
I’ve been thinking a lot about approximately 90 people who were willing to risk their lives by travelling in a non-air conditioned semi truck trailer for hours in the Texas heat. Aside from having no seats, no seat belts, and no air conditioning or moving air, the ride would have Read more…
There’s a saying: “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” I’ve had a lot of teachers and professors in my time. I’ve not thanked them enough. The standout of all my teachers was Ruth Chapin, my sixth-grade English teacher at L.C. Curtis Junior High in Santa Clara, California, for Read more…
I remember 9/11 it like it was yesterday. 10 months after the horror of 9/11, I joined E-ONE, a fire/rescue vehicle manufacturer in Ocala, Florida, to help them implement mass customization. We had fire/rescue vehicles on backorder for the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) as a consequence of that Read more…
Every week, I ponder what to write about for “Thank God It’s Monday.” Somehow, I hope to come up with something that will be of interest to you. Over the past month, it seems the world has gone mad. I’m sure you are feeling this, too. We’ve seen: 49 people Read more…