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Rescue Dogs Can Make Good Pets. Take One Home and Give A Dog Life.
Rescue dogs can make great companions. Most no-kill shelters allow the would-be owner to take a dog home on a trial basis. The same may hold true for county or city sponsored animal control kennels. You can save a dog’s life by looking at animal control kennels, but brace yourself for the encounter. Rescue…
Read MoreAgeism in America is Unconsious and Virulent
Ageism in America is deeply imbedded, largely unconscious and hardly ever confronted. A reader recently sent me a series of cartoons about elderly people. Each panel poked fun at the commonplace inconveniences or afflictions of old age; i.e. incontinence, forgetfulness, general decrepitude, impotence, diminished libido, ineptitude with new gadgets, etc. The subjects were depicted in…
Read MoreBlogging Requires an Unrelenting Search for Posting Topics
Blogging becomes a strict task master after posting a few dozen articles. I started out with the notion that blogging would be a gratifying creative outlet. It has been. I also thought that it would help make people aware of my novel, Deadly Portfolio: A Killing in Hedge Funds, and there is some evidence that…
Read MoreDuck Hunting was a Weekend Pursuit When I Was a Boy
#hunting #duck hunting #pheasants #shotgun Hunting ducks always comes to mind as the autumn season deepens. My dad was an avid hunter. He could not wait until my brother and I became old enough to accompany him on his weekend excursions into the South Dakota countryside to hunt ducks and pheasants. I remember going with…
Read MoreTeaching Was a Year Round Vocation in Small Town Mid-America
#teaching #Yankton #littleleaguebaseball #highschool Teaching was my vocation of choice. Upon entering college, I initially chose business administration as a major. Somehow I imagined a career where I would rise to become a captain of industry. Never mind that there were no major companies in my hometown of Yankton, SD to give me any inkling…
Read MoreSales Training — Counselor Selling was Wilson Learning’s Flagship Program
@salestraining @counselorselling #wilsonlearning @larrywilson Sales training and interpersonal skills training are still offered by Wilson Learning Corporation. The following article is the second in a series covering my professional experience at Wilson Learning Corporation in the 1970’s. Nobody was allowed much time to settle in at Wilson Learning. I had to hit the ground running.…
Read MoreReviewers Cannot Make Allowances When Writers Self-publish Without an Editor’s Help.
If a person wants to become an electrician or plumber, entrance to the trade is gained by becoming an apprentice. Before being licensed, the apprentice takes classes and works with an experienced journeyman until a command of the basics is tested and certified as having been achieved. Not so for writers, however. Aspiring authors are…
Read MoreMystery Deepens When the Author is Truthful in Every Detail
The article that follows was published several months ago on a web site that promotes articles for authors of mysteries and thrillers. For the last several weeks, I have been reviewing books for Norm Golden’s web site bookpleasures.com. Many of the books I am asked to review are an initial effort by the author.…
Read MoreSelf Publishing Often Sidesteps the Role Editors Play in Producing a Quality Work
Time once was that an aspiring author fought to catch the attention of a publisher in order get a book to market. The chances of getting a book considered were slim. But once inside, an editor was appointed to work with the author, suggest revisions, and shape the story so that it would be more…
Read MoreWilson Learning, My Career Crash Lands Safely in Larry Wilson’s Company
#larrywilson @wilsonlearning #counselorselling #saletraining Larry Wilson, the founder of Wilson Learning Corporation, died last April. (2013( Word did not reach me until a few weeks ago, however. I wondered in recent years whatever became of him. He was not on Facebook. When I googled, I found that there hundreds with his name, but none with…
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