Anyone out there remember how excited we were in 1972 when Atari introduced the Pong video game? We attached this to our television sets and the very basic game consisted of a ball being hit back and forth between 2 players. This was the very first video game, and over the ensuring 50 years, we […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
I am not a coffee person but I sure wish I invested in Starbucks way back when. The company was founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington but the major growth occurred after Starbucks went public in 1992. In 1996 the company expanded outside the U.S. and shortly thereafter became the world’s largest coffeehouse chain in […]
When I am watching a baseball game and hear the word “SACRIFICE”, the image that is conjured up is a hitter squaring around to bunt in order to get the baserunner from first to second or second to third. Basically, the batter is “giving up” his at bat for the good of the team. […]
The summer season is almost here and with so many of us suffering from CFS (Covid Fatigue Syndrome), we are licking our chops to attend social gatherings that have been on the back burner since the pandemic. Graduation […]
For those baseball fans out there, especially ones that follow the New York Yankees, you may remember their great Hall of Fame catcher, Yogi Berra. Yogi made the All-star team 18 times and played in 10 World Series for the Yankees during his illustrious playing career. Despite being a great player, Yogi was/is probably best […]
Here is a definition of “Tenacity”: Extremely persistent in adhering to or doing something; stubborn or relentless. If you were to “self-score” your own “tenacity level”, what would that be? I suppose the concept of self-tenacity needs to be broken down to different aspects of our lives. For example, some people can be very […]
There is no one, and I repeat NO ONE, that decides to lose weight and then proceeds to lose weight every week without weeks along the way when the weight goes up. If a person’s weight loss was plotted with weight on one part of the graph and time on the other, a straight line […]
I would bet that pretty much all of us, at various times of our lives, have uttered or heard the expression that included the term “Night and Day”. This term is often used to describe a clear change or difference between two things. Let’s bring the concept of “Night and Day” to the weight […]
One of my favorite movies is the Tom Hanks’ classic, Forrest Gump. The film was released in 1994, won 6 Academy Awards and made almost $700 million in revenue. For those of you that have seen the movie (I have watched it probably over 20 times) there are many poignant as well as funny […]
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