View From Here: Stock Market Volatility

View From Here: Stock Market Volatility: Fascinating. The markets are up one day and down the next. Seemingly in parallel motion and of similar numeric measure. Swooping markets,...

View From Here: Gay Pride

View From Here: Gay Pride: It is not that gays are proud to be gay so much as they are proud to be themselves like everyone else. It is assumed to be normal. When y...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: From Abraham Lincoln comes this quote:              “ This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. ...

View From Here: More Bits and Pieces

View From Here: More Bits and Pieces: A sampling of issues that have appeared on the world stage of ‘news’ lately: Spying and Snowden We all know spying goes on throug...

View From Here: Housing Clusters

View From Here: Housing Clusters: I keep thinking that housing trends are changing. I also feel that they must change . When I let my mind range freely over this topic her...

View From Here: Vision of the Future

View From Here: Vision of the Future: It is fun to think of things that might be. It is even better when thinking these thoughts we actually grasp a tiny picture of what that ...

View From Here: Bits and Pieces, Again!

View From Here: Bits and Pieces, Again!: So many news bits that beg for a reply. I know you are thinking them. Maybe you agree with the principals involved, but maybe not. Here’s...

View From Here: Racism in America

View From Here: Racism in America: Just to be clear about is, IT IS NOT OK TO BE RACIST. Now or ever. Regardless of the targeted racism, it is not OK. Many people feel ...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: A gift from Maya Angelou to ponder this weekend: "I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attri...

View From Here: Entrepreneurial Trends

View From Here: Entrepreneurial Trends: Much has been written in the business press claiming formation of new businesses is soft, down, maybe kaput. I beg to differ. From wh...

View From Here: Who Wants to be a Billionaire?

View From Here: Who Wants to be a Billionaire?: That’s a B folks, not an M! So now that we have a self professed billionaire running for President, I guess campaign finance reform is de...

View From Here: Non-profit? What’s That?!

View From Here: Non-profit? What’s That?!:    Doing charity work has its rewards and challenges. No better an example than the work many of us do to mentor small businesses and ent...

View From Here: More Bits and Pieces

View From Here: More Bits and Pieces: The Sun Shines! The Midwest US has had rain recently. A lot of rain. Two to four inches yesterday, an inch or two Sunday, and God only k...

View From Here: Fear – The Sky is Falling

View From Here: Fear – The Sky is Falling: Chicken Little remains a popular child fable. It teaches the simple lesson that saying something is so doesn’t make it so. Indeed, when t...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Afterlife Something to ponder. I am silent on the subject because of necessity. I have friends in both places. - quoted in  Mark Twain...

View From Here: Witness

View From Here: Witness: Growing up we were taught how to act right in public. You know, stand up straight, smile, stay neat and tidy, and above all else, don’t w...

View From Here: Twenty-Somethings Avoiding Marriage?

View From Here: Twenty-Somethings Avoiding Marriage?: Time magazine reports new data is available proving Americans in their twenties are not getting married at the same rate as in the past. ...

View From Here: Putin’s Trust Issues

View From Here: Putin’s Trust Issues: The G7 is meeting. That’s the top global economic powers group. They have learned to cooperate over the last few decades. Cooperation to ...

View From Here: Saving for Retirement

View From Here: Saving for Retirement: Well I did. Save for retirement. And plans were good, fruitful and long term. But you know the adage of ‘best made plans go wrong’. That ...

View From Here: Bits and Pieces, Take…

View From Here: Bits and Pieces, Take…: Some days there are too many news items to ignore! That’s when I engage in ‘Bits and Pieces’. A little blurb on each that gives the matte...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: “Know yourself; to thine own self be true.” I thought this was a biblical quotation but maybe not. As I searched through Google I soon ...

View From Here: Scheduling the Old

View From Here: Scheduling the Old: OK, I’m not old. Not at 72 in the year 2015. My age must be the new 50 or maybe 60? You hear just about everywhere 60 is the new 40. Or 5...

View From Here: To Understand Rather than to be Understood

View From Here: To Understand Rather than to be Understood: What’d he say?  Huh? Sorry, noise distracted me. What did you say? We’ve all been in a situation where you heard something that may h...

View From Here: Economy Spring 2015

View From Here: Economy Spring 2015: So, the stock markets are up and down. That’s normal, you say? Well yes and no. today’s markets are up wildly and down scarily. Huge swin...

View From Here: To Meet or Not

View From Here: To Meet or Not: Hamlet, we thought, said it all – ‘To be or not to be; that is the question.” Well, it seems there are a lot of ‘or not’s’ in our liv...

View From Here: Determination

View From Here: Determination: Maddy sat demurely in the study room of the local library. We agreed to meet there to discuss how to expand her business. But first we ne...