The Adults Now

Alisa and I have survived all four of our parents, of blessed memory. In doing so, we have become members of the oldest living generation in our families. (As the youngest children in our families, we seem young for this status.) Anyway, Alisa looked at me and said,...

Summer School 2014

I like to keep a List Of What I Don't Know. I learned this from Rob Emrich.  The good news: the list never goes away. No sooner do I learn something — and scratch it off the list — then up rises one or two new questions. And there they go, onto...

Creeper

I can't believe I've never told you this story. Perhaps I've told it to you in person. But I don't see it here on Net Cotton Content. So this might be news. So One Day,I was walking home from the school bus stop, a couple blocks from home. I was maybe...

Celebration

Do you celebrate?  This was a question posed to an arena full of entrepreneurs by Jack Welch. The GE CEO asked two thousand young entrepreneurs: How many of you have, during the past few months, recognized a victory? Maybe you stopped on the way home to pick up...