by Matthew | Mar 12, 2022 | Leadership
Harry Truman famously said of his successor Dwight Eisenhower shortly before Eisenhower took office: “Poor Ike, he won’t know what to do. He’ll sit here and bark orders but nobody will listen. It won’t be a thing like the Army.” Harry had...
by Matthew | Feb 2, 2022 | Christianity, Movies and TV
“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing mattered?” So asks Bill Murray’s jaded meteorologist Phil Connors in the 1993 film Groundhog Day, after realizing that he is inexplicably trapped in...
by Matthew | Jan 17, 2022 | Sports
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger salutes the crowd at Heinz Field after playing and winning his final home game on January 3, 2022 (Getty Images) It was the fall of 2004. Rookie phenom “Big” Ben Roethlisberger, first round draft pick out...
by Matthew | Jan 5, 2022 | Ideas, Leadership, Writing
“What three people, living or dead, would you invite to a dinner party?” So goes a popular conversation starter. Sometimes the number varies, usually between having dinner with just one person or up to five or seven, but three seems like a good number....
by Matthew | Dec 23, 2021 | Christianity
In an effort to write more, I am going to try something a little different and occasionally post collections of brief thoughts gathered in something approaching a theme, instead of waiting until the inspiration for some thousand word topic strikes. With Christmas upon...
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