by Artie Isaac | Oct 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
I’m sure you are passionate about this Presidential election. You ought to be. Are you as passionate about it as the fellow in the photo with me? His name is Peter. (More on Peter later.) We’ve not faced a more important moment in my life. Two economic...
by Artie Isaac | Oct 4, 2008 | It happened, Living an engaged life, On Creativity
Perhaps you have simply forgotten. You might be too young to remember. Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope secretly stretched between the tops of the World Trade Towers on August 7, 1974. Truth Or Fact?At times, I wonder about truth that cannot be proven as fact,...
by Artie Isaac | Oct 2, 2008 | Living an engaged life
My father died when I was 30, recently married, before our kids were born. I was, it seems now, just starting out. There are many times that I’ve longed to hear his advice. (Of course, while he lived, he almost never gave advice. It was as if, with me anyway, he...
by Artie Isaac | Oct 1, 2008 | It happened, On Ethics
So I’m at my book club and we’re chatting with the prolific author, Gene Logsdon, who made a cameo appearance with wife Carol. We’d read his 2007 novel, The Lords of Folly. At some point, I must have said something candidly self-deprecating —...
by Artie Isaac | Sep 30, 2008 | Uh, Artie?
Back to the mailbag.Uh, Artie, As a newly single twenty-something, I had my first rite-of-passage blind date experience last night. We were set up by mutual friends, met for drinks and dinner, and proceeded to bludgeon our way through forced conversation for about 45...
