From tornados in spring to hurricanes in late summer, we are accustomed to weather caused disasters in these United States. Environmental disasters have obviously occurred for millennia, but our societal responses have improved a great deal in recent years. My perspective comes from 20 years of personal involvement which began [...]
A couple weeks ago, I traveled with 9 other volunteers from Greater Kansas City to Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina, to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Although it has been over 4 months since the area of Western NC and Eastern Tennessee was hit with what could be [...]
While I am generally never afraid of sharing my faith in these columns, I also am cognizant of the fact that my beliefs aren’t necessarily shared by all of my readers so I try to keep my articles as secular as possible. However, recently my pastor, Neil Chesshir of One [...]
This morning, I am sitting while awaiting breakfast in Creston, Iowa, with a group of about 35. I came up yesterday as a member of a chainsaw crew of the Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief organization to cut up and cut down damaged or downed trees the tornado caused last week [...]
Have you ever gone to an expensive restaurant that appeared on the outside to be quite sophisticated and refined only to find after dining there that the food itself was less than impressive? I think sometimes the financial services industry can have a similar strategy of dazzling people with their [...]
I speak often on the behavioral differences between various generations in America. It can be seen in the way they work, the way they communicate and even the way they eat. However, I’m not sure there is more of a stark divergence than how they consume media. Traditional forms of [...]
I think after years of writing this column for the Examiner it should be pretty apparent talking about money comes easily for me. In fact, it’s something I really enjoy doing. However, recent research from Empower shows I am in the minority of people who feel comfortable talking about the [...]
My wife, Karen, and I just returned from our longest trip of 49 plus years together. We flew to Amsterdam and traveled by small cruise ship the Rhine, Main, and Danube rivers and the interconnecting canals of Europe. We visited Germany, Austria, and Hungary, ending in Budapest, over 1250 [...]
Recently I surprised my wife Rebecca with tickets to see musician Ed Sheran perform at Arrowhead Stadium. Aside from us both being fans of his, another reason I purchased the tickets was the retail price of them had dropped significantly on Ticketmaster. After buying the bargain tickets, I then looked [...]
For regular readers of my column, you may be aware that two weeks ago I paid tribute to the workers of America in a special Labor Day article. In it I expressed a need to further lift up the working class and reduce the widening gap between the middle and [...]
