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As our North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue recently put it so well, here in North Carolina we just dodged another bullet. Hurricane Earl came and went and most of us here in North Carolina are none the worse for it. Interesting is the best way to describe the news coverage of this event. The weather [...]
I went to a yard sale and picked up a half a dozen Og Mandino books for just $3. I read five of them already and I was reminded of a conversation I had with Og many years ago. I believe it was at his home and he had an open house for members of [...]
I have a sort of an anniversary coming up on August 13th. The other night I did two thirty minute stand up comedy shows here in Hillsborough and a friend said to me, “Do you realize that your initials as Almost Andy are AA?” It triggered a memory and when I arrived home I looked [...]
I got up early for an early appointment with my eye doctor and as I was driving east on Interstate 40 in fairly heavy traffic it suddenly dawned on me that many of the drivers around me were taking a trip that they take five days a week…week in and week out and they report [...]
Sometimes when I get mad at a big corporation I forget that there are a lot of fantastic, wonderful, caring people who work for that organization. Perhaps you have done that in the past too. I remember doing some presentations for Exxon at Baytown back when we were all upset with that oil spill in [...]
Eighty One years old today and just what have I learned in that time? Not a whole lot. I can’t understand the war in Afghanistan. I can’t figure out how BP did such a rotten job of safety nor can I understand why they can’t figure out a way to stop the flow. Maybe they [...]
Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what we know that gets us in trouble, its what we know that just ain’t so.” I can’t figure how I survived in my career as a professional speaker for so long not knowing all that I do. It just seems that the more that I learn, the less [...]
“Learn to unlearn.” Benjamin Disreali. I had a friend named Ray Motsavatge and he was a memory expert. Every week he would memorize the entire current issue and then he would tear up the magazine passing out the pages and members of the audience would call out their page number and he would tell them [...]
I went to a five family yard sale out in the country today. It was about eight miles from my home. For two dollars I purchased a Sears Solid State Cassette Recorder in perfect condition. At a different spot at the sale I purchased a six tape album of The Secrets of Power Negotiating by [...]
If you don’t toot your horn then who will? One of the many schemes I employed when I worked for a corporation was to team up with a fellow who headed a different department. We were in charge of each others PR. When he or his department did something worth cheering then I lead the [...]