Author: OperationsManager

  • Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo

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    It’s Memorial Day and I’m thinking about Korea and about you, Max.  You and those other G.I’s they carried off on liters from that damn, beat-up powder-topped hill we called Old Baldy.  We were fighting so that the world would be safe for democracy.  Maybe we did a lousy job of it Max, because people…

  • A Quick Fix for America

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    Pundits, politicians and even President Obama are all saying that getting the economy back on track is going to take a long, long time.  This is very depressing and it’s not what the American people want to hear.  They want to hear about a quick fix for the current situation—an instant turnaround that will put…

  • Never Doubt

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    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead At the age of twenty-three, in the 1920s, Margaret Mead traveled alone to the South Sea and wrote of adolescent sexuality and guilt-free love in her now classic Coming of…

  • Art Fettig: Country Road

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    Yesterday my wife Jean and I were driving down an old country road looking for a church meeting site where I would be delivering a humor talk next week. As I was thinking about all of the picturesque country roads in this area and I thought about John Denver’s song Country Road.

  • Ross Reck: Laughter Is A Powerful Medicine

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    There aren’t many medicines that even come close to delivering the benefits that laughter delivers.  To start with, laughter makes us feel good, makes our burdens seem lighter and makes the difficult times seem less difficult.  In addition, laughter strengthens the immune system, helps you heal more quickly, reduces food cravings, reduces stress, anxiety and…