The Human side of Humanity

Good day, good day readers and followers. The world spins around on energy, postive energy keeps it spinning forward with an electricity that brightens the world.  Every once in a while there are instances, occurrences that let all of us know that we did the right thing somewhere.  I've long said that small things aggregate, amalgamate to be big things.  Sometimes, in small places these little things result in a smile.  Remember, sometimes a smile can be the diffence in a good day and bad day to many. On Saturday as I was on my way home from the winning soccer game for the Philadelphia Union soccer club.  I stopped in the local pub.  This isn't just any local barroom, but the one that sponsored the team for which I played for several years and the club for which I coached for even more!  The current owner is one of my former teammates.  A lot of the "kids" that we coached hang out there now that they became of legal age. Saturday, when I enter...

Good day readers and followers.  Welcome to a new day.  Here in the Northeast US its another rainy Sunday.  I have to share that my days are not following any particular pattern.  I've lived such a structured and regimented life that while its not unnerving to not need to be somewhere  it is almost confusing.  I had owned a small business for almost two years with it's dizzying pace, where I had to be a weatherman, delivery driver, accountant, manager, babysitter, human resource executive and still have time to do the company laundry.  Most days I was up by 4 or 4:30 am and the days were all 10 to sometimes 15 hours long. In Human Resource parlance, I am in transition.  Winding down some business while not actively operating.  I don't have to be in the gym at 4:30 or 5 am just to get to work by 6 or 7 am.  It's the current but temporary "new normal."  Prior to owning the business I was still up by 5am and in the gym by 5:30am for...

Hello my somewhat dormant readers and followers. The last two months have brought so many issues to the surface that I didn't know what to address...but now I do.  Dishonesty, it rides mostly on a train that is going downhill- then stalls.  We have collected some honest factoids to hopefully get the engine uphill. First off, are there "Flying Horses?"   Nope!   The mythical pegasus, etc never existed.  Does  a Pegasus have gender differences, i.e. a vagina and a penis w/testicles?  NO, they are f@cking mythical, WTF?  Does the Answerman  say "I don't give a flying horse's balls what you say" for nothing?"  It is a go-to phrase when something strikes me as so unbelievable, useless or dishonest that I don't know what to say.  I don't know when it started but in a moment of frustration I just blurted that out.  Now it's just something that comes out when I'm frustrated with someone's actions/words. The truth is that ...