Summer and Cotton Candy

Summer and cotton candy just go together… Like: Hot dogs and baseball games Beer and pretzels Kids and mud puddles Swings and smiles Thunderstorms followed by rainbows Neighborhood walks and ice cream cones Family visits and happiness Vacation and beaches Read More …

Ideas As Inspiration

Using ideas as inspiration to take action is really what creative thinkers hope for each day…each hour even. Keep thinking. Keep evaluating options and eliminating them if they don’t work. Keep doodling. Keep sketching it out, trying different options. Keep Read More …

Fill The Schedule

If you have direct labor and overhead that you want to cover in your business, you may need to fill the schedule – that is, of course – if you are a scheduling based business. Today, an e-mail came out Read More …

Apple Rings

When we were kids, we could be surprised by a snack in our lunch box that was simply apple rings – thin slices of our favorite apples – de-stemmed, de-cored and de-seeded. Yum. Maybe if we had kept eating them Read More …

Disconnected

It is strange to feel disconnected. While we have decided to “cut the cord” that doesn’t even have anything to do with the feeling. We have been attached at the hip to mobile phones for decades, even as far back Read More …

Hey, Is That The Same Car?

When cars get old enough, antique enough, they stand out. The other day, we saw an orange VW Beetle in a parking lot. Today, walking through town, we saw another one and thought, hey, is that the same car? I Read More …

If You Are Keeping Score

It depends on the scenario whether it is good or bad if you are keeping score. If you are making tally marks: against your kids – bad. against your competition – good. against your spouse – bad. against your opponent Read More …