Henry

To Badmouth or Not To Badmouth

Recently I had the intriguing experience of listening to an unabashed, full-throated badmouthing, an occurrence I had not witnessed in some time particularly when considering the circumstances. An ambitious, resourceful entrepreneur who years ago founded a startup was presenting to all who were curious as to how to recover and bounce back when that startup […]

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A Teen Consumer of Criminal Justice

A very bright friend recently presented a question that provided me an opportunity to enter into one of my most favorite pastimes: listening to myself speak. a-HEM. Actually, I thoroughly enjoy waxing philosophical and deep thinking, and the question asked of me was: are teenagers’ lawbreaking tendencies more extreme these days?   As one who

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Enlightening the Mind

As a written and spoken communicator, I learned during my undergraduate years that one of the best contributions that factors straight into the quality of what we produce is what we consume. That is, we read directly influences how we write. And speak. With that in mind, some of the more memorable books into which

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Regarding ‘The Danny’

Amid the news about the owner of Washington’s professional football team exploring a sale, a pointed memory surfaced. Known as the Commanders since early this year and the Washington Football Team the two years prior, the team previously was known as the Redskins. For short, they also were known as the ‘Skins.

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Gentleman Defined

One of the kindest men I’ve known, a gentleman from Northern Illinois whom I met in the mid-2000s and whose wry, colorful, off-center sense of humor did not change since then, died Monday morning. He was 95-and-a-half, he told me during our final conversation on October 12.

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Mall Assault: The Disposition

The older man who physically assaulted me early this month in a Boston mall has not caused additional trouble, is now on the city police radar, and is eligible for criminal charges should he return and continue assaulting people, the mall’s top security authority told me early this week.

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