As helpful as friends and family can be, often times they cannot provide the understanding you need because they don’t know what you are going through after suffering a devastating loss. In “The Road to Recovery” you learn that you come to a crossroads in life when you lose someone very dear to you. To [...]
Adding the Five Percent
February 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
by James Hale, In an interview with authors William Doyle and William Perkins, a successful partner in a management consulting firm credits attention to detail for her success. She says, “I believe that battles are won and lost in the last five percent of detail. Everybody gets the first 80%. Most people get the first [...]
How to Stick to your New Year’s Resolutions – 7 Steps
January 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Well, it’s January 11, 2013 already. How are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions? The Today Show on NBC recently featured some helpful tips on not only setting but also keeping your New Year’s resolutions far beyond January. Most people tend to quit after the first month of the year. Let that not be [...]
Bond Voyage – Scene 6
January 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Trial Commences Bond felt very conspicuous and ashamed as he sat in the orange leather chair. Although he was not directly responsible for the slew of slayings, they probably would not have occurred had he not taken this much needed holiday. Even if they did, he would do nothing more than read about the sadistic [...]
Bond Voyage – Scene Four
December 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Judge Haverford As dawn approached, James finally dozed. All through the night he attempted to reconstruct in his mind how all the bloody pieces fit together. To his consternation, they did not; and he had no hard evidence to aid his speculation, save the fact that the killer was an expert in administering morbid deaths. [...]
Bond Voyage – Scene Three
November 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Incrimination, That’s the Name of the Game Waterlogged and shivering from his damp experience, Bond was rescued by a young couple roused from their nuzzling on a deck chair by the splash in the pool. Despite his misadventures, Bond remained clear-headed enough to ask the enamored twosome if they had noticed anyone leaving the area. “No, sir, you [...]
Five Truths: Part 5, Luck Favors the Prepared
November 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In 2004, Pixar and Disney Studios released a brilliant movie called “The Incredibles.” It was an animated film about a family of superheroes and their struggles to live in normal society. There is a minor character in the film named Edna Mode. Ms. Mode is a half-Japanese, half-German fashion designer specializing in custom-made outfits for [...]
Bond Voyage – Scene Two
November 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Hello, Fifi. Goodbye, Fifi “Miss LaChance. Miss LaChance.” The knocking on the door and accompanying voice confirmed to Bond that he was not having a bad dream. Dazed, he stumbled to the door and opened it to view the room steward, immaculately dressed in white. Upon noticing the occupant’s indisposed condition. He excused himself and [...]
Bond Voyage – Scene One
November 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What began as a pleasure cruise was turning into a nightmare for Bond and the 350 passengers aboard the S. S. Santa Paula, Grace Line’s premier ocean liners for romantic and luxurious cruises to the Caribbean. As he boarded her on that cold, bleak, wintry New York day, Bond had an ominous feeling. Earlier he had accidentally collided with a fellow [...]
