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As children, we have unbridled aspirations. We dream to be doctors. We dream to be lawyers. We dream to be a Forest Ranger. We dream to be a sports star. We dream because we can. Looking back at our childhood dreams, we remember a time when dreams had no limits, and anything was possible. For those on the lower rung of a class-based society, the reality of our desperate circumstances causes us to stop dreaming at an early age. For the impoverished, the tendency is to accept failure as something more than a simple word. It is our worst fear. The perception is what might ...
Everything You Need to Know About Success
At the age of twenty-six I passed the bar exam and started my own law firm. The Juris Doctor degree I received from law school was my first and only degree. I didn't graduate from high school or college. I never once attended the best schools. In fact the law school where I received my Juris Doctor was Woodrow Wilson College of Law, a school that was not accredited by the ABA. But I had a strong and creative talent for survival. As it turned out, that creative skill gave me a tremendous edge over other lawyers, even those who considered themselves the best ...
Impoverished Teens Need Jobs
Impoverished teens need jobs. The unemployment rate for teenagers today is a whopping 23%. That is especially bad news for teens from poverty neighborhoods. When it comes to job interviews, the middle class children will have an advantage over impoverished teens. Middle class teenagers will be interviewing with managers who are also from the middle class. The language skills and behaviors of the middle class will mirror those of the managers interviewing them. Imagine the hurdles impoverished teens must overcome to get a job. Impoverished teens do not have a rule book on how to conduct yourself in an interview with the middle class. Their casual language will be replete with bad grammar ...
How Children in Poverty Can Change Their Life?
The truth about child poverty is that these children have no idea about the social behaviors of the middle class. As they grow older, they want to have a better life—-they want all those things that children in the middle class want. However, within the culture of the middle class, there are rules of behavior which are unknown to the child living in a culture of poverty. These rules reside in the reflexive loop of middle class children—--mindless common practices that are such an integral part of the upbringing that they become “common sense.” Children raised in the middle class might ...
What Money Can’t Buy
Have you ever considered what you have in life that really matters to you? Chances are what really matters to you is something that money cannot buy. When I was ten years old my father set fire to the only house we ever owned, just to collect the insurance money. When I got off the school bus that afternoon the ashes were still smoldering. When I left for school that morning I didn't know that my father had planned on burning the house while I was away at school. My older brother later told me that the house burned faster than my ...
Judy Collins: Send in the Clowns
This is Judy Collins singing "Send in the Clowns." I loved this song the first time I heard it many years ago, and I still love it today. It reminds me of the irony of the war on poverty. The perception that our government helps the poor is far from the reality.When I think of the lyrics to this song I’m reminded of the isolation of impoverished children. I know this song isn't written for poverty victims, but they do a good job of describing the problems of children in poverty. Within the profundity of those lyrics is a conundrum, thus far unanswered. When the ...
Troubled Teen Escapes Poverty: Achieves Financial Independence
That's me, Doug Wallace, top center in the above photo. My siblings and I lived with our parents in the Kirkpatrick Homes housing projects in Granite City, IL in 1955. There were six of us children back then. Years later, our mother would give birth to two more boys. We lived in abject poverty in a crowded housing project apartment where food, shelter and safety were never assured. By the time I was fourteen years old I was firmly entrenched in the culture of poverty. In reality I was afraid of being stuck in the cycle of poverty, but you couldn't tell that by my behavior. As a teenager, my life ...
Ten Behaviors Guaranteed To Ruin Your Life
Amidst the desolate landscape of missed opportunities and broken hearts there lies the unanswered question: Why Do People Fail in Life? Could you have detected early warning signs and avoided the misery of failure? How far can will you fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable? How can you reverse course and get your life back on track? Every person, no matter their circumstances, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that says the rich are guaranteed success while the poor are not. Anyone can fail and most all of us eventually do. But, many people recover ...
Doug Wallace Live Radio Interview With the Jim Bohannon Show
This radio interview was with Jim Bohannon (pictured left) of the Jim Bohannon Show, broadcast live over 350 stations nationwide. It involves live interaction with listeners calling into the program. Though I have done dozens of radio interviews, this particular interview involved live calls from listeners and I enjoyed that very much. The thing about a live interview is that there is no rehearsal because you cannot anticipate the question. I think you will enjoy this interview very much, so please take the time to listen. If you are a teacher or a professional in sociology, or a parent dealing with a troubled teen, I think you ...
Hardbound Books are Still Available on Amazon
On October 1, 2009, Doug Wallace's Everything Will Be All Right was released by Greenleaf Publishing Company in Austin, Texas. On December 1, 2009, the book won an Indie Bound Next List notable award for best non-fiction. I was thrilled to win this prestigious award as a first time author. I know how rare it is for a first-time author to get the kind of attention this book has gotten. Such success is rare, but in today’s publishing climate, they are almost unheard of. Another important marker of the book’s success is that it has been accepted in 3000 libraries located in all ...
Indie Award For Best Non-Fiction: Reader Reviews
Aftr receiving the Indie Next List Notable award for best non-fiction my email inbox started getting crowded from readers, some who knew me from way back when, and some were people who crossed my path during my life journey, and others were from people who were touched by my story. I have selected letters from people who have written via email after reading my book. Due to space limitations, I couldn't include everyone's letter. If I omitted yours, please forgive me. The following are the reviews chosen from my email files: Letter from Book Club in Dallas, TX: The letter was written by a ...
A Mea Culpa Moment
I would like the tell the story of my own mea culpa moment, which taught me an important lesson--failure to say "I'm sorry," has the potential to seriously alter your own future success. In my memoir, Everything Will Be All Right, I write about an instructor at the Job Corps, where I was a corpsman, who for some reason, unknown to me, had judged me as an "arrogant" student who deserved to be taught a lesson. I learned that I was in trouible with the instructor when I was just weeks away from completing her course. The instructor announced to the entire class that I would get a final grade of “F,” as in failing ...
How to Escape Poverty: Gratitude
My brothers and I spent a lot of time during our teen years talking about our dreams and aspirations when we became adults. At an early age I decided that I would become an attorney. My older brother, Bracy, wanted to own a used car lot. His idea was to buy old cars, refurbish them, and sell them at a nice profit. Steve wanted to be a regional or national sales manager for a large retail store or fast food chain. My younger brother Rick was still very young, and just happy to hang out with his older brothers, and seemed somewhat disinterested in making plans ...
More Americans Sinking Into Poverty–Losing Hope
The most disturbing aspect of this lousy economy is the adversity that is coming at the American people from all directions, especially the poor. The American people can handle one crisis, or perhaps even two or three crises, but add them all up and it is clear that both the middle class and the poor are getting hammered hard. Consider the following: Gasoline prices are at the highest price ever for this time of the year. They are expected to climb higher by summer. After three years with unemployment topping 8 percent, the U.S. has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression, the Congressional Budget ...
True Life Stories of a Child in Crisis
Children in poverty are emotionally fragile; their feelings are easily hurt by the most ordinary things. The real life stories of children living in dysfunctional homes where there is a constant crisis: utilities suddenly cut-off for nonpayment, evictions, addictions, and in your face violence are more prevalent today than at any time in my memory. There are times when everyone will experience hurt because things didn’t go their way, causing emotional pain. But, envision a lifestyle in which things rarely go your way as a result of the limitations imposed by poverty. The worst thing you can do is blame yourself ...
Teens in Poverty Face Life-Changing Choices
In the poverty neighborhoods of east Nashville, we lived in a time and a place in which rules were far less important than a healthy self-image. When your sense of self-worth is constantly hammered, demanding respect is the measure by which we hold on to our dignity. If we didn't get that respect, then we fought---yes it was wrong, but it is one of the ways the poverty culture teaches troubled teens to deal with a low sense of self-worth. Respectability expands opportunities for “self-determination," and opens the doors for communicating with the other social economic classes. It was an unspoken knowledge that blending in with the ...
Troubled Teens: How Can We Save Them?
When thinking about the culture of poverty, start with the proposition that poverty is evil– people are not. By way of example, we’re all born equally innocent, a happy baby in search of the good. There is no rule that says a child born in poverty is less innocent, less intelligent, less motivated, or less important that a child born into immense wealth. So, what happens to cause children to drift away, or digress from that which humans are naturally built to do—quest after the search of good? Mike Tyson, by the age of thirteen, had been arrested over a dozen times ...
Life Choices:Free Will or Destiny
“Do you believe in destiny or free will,” I asked my wife. “Well,” she replied. “If you were meant to be shot, then you will never have to worry about drowning.” "Thought provoking response," I amused, but I couldn’t help wondering what about those babies born into poverty? Where they meant to endure hunger, violence, deprivation and inequality as their destiny based solely upon the fact that they were born into poverty? Of course not—every child born in America should have an equal opportunity for a better life. Belief in fate and destiny are major tenets of my belief system. I believe this is the key ...
How to Overcome the Odds
A university in New Jersey is using my memoir this semester as part of their studies in sociology. A couple of days ago I received a very nice letter from the Professor of Sociology at the university in which she made the following comment, ”We enjoyed reading about your struggles because as sociology majors we were able to use the sociological imagination to learn a lot and understand a lot about your life.” She sent a list of questions from some of the students who wanted to know a little more about my story. I was greatly honored that the university ...
Standing Up To My Father’s Rage
I was barely a teenager when I first learned about reducing fractions to their lowest common denominator. It’s not that I hated math. I was gifted with the ability to do many math equations in my head without the need of a writing pad. But, our family moved so frequently, from one run-down neighborhood to the next, attending schools in some of the worst schools in the area. Throughout my childhood I had limited access to a quality education as did all all eight of us children. It was rare for us to finish a school year in which we ...
Teachers at Work
When I was contacted by the Principal at the Junior High School in Llano, Texas a few months back, I was thrilled that they had chosen to use my book to study the sociology of the culture of poverty. I had no idea of the adventure I was about to experience. Students were engaged in my story in a way that I could have never predicted. They related to my story of being born into generational poverty. They shared their own stories of poverty, and they did something that neither I nor the teachers anticipated; they openly discussed their own internal fears and concerns in comparison ...
When Entitlements Hurt Children in Poverty
The US Census report for 2010 reports a significant rise in the number of people in poverty in 2009 as compared to 2008. I don’t think this is a surprise to most people. The New York Times reported in September 2011 that more people are living in poverty today than at any time in the 52 years that the bureau has been keeping records. The increasing number of vacant office buildings and empty retail spaces in small towns across America are ominous signs that something is seriously wrong with our economy. It’s not just the high unemployment rate that is causing depression ...
Character Counts
Young people generally value the opinions of their elders, and will often ask questions like, What advice do you give to someone who really wants to succeed financially? I used to ask the same kind of questions to my elders during my younger years. Out of all the advise I received, the most valued was from my college roommate's father. My roommate during early college years invited me to his parent's house in Milwaukee, WI for the weekend. After dinner, on that first night at his home, my roommate's father asked if he could speak with me privately. He pulled me aside and said, "I have some advice for ...
Myths and Inconvenient Truths About Children in Poverty
There are many unknown factors when it comes to poverty, especially if you come from a background of the middle and upper classes. Though we can't predict the future, we can dispel some myths, and confirm some inconvenient truths, that collectively affect the sense of self worth and behavior of poverty victims, and make escaping poverty far more daunting than most people realize. This post will explore some of the myths, and inconvenient truths that affect the self-esteem and behaviors of impoverished families and over time gives little incentive for them to make it in the mainstream society. Though many of these myths have some elements of truth, it ...
Sargent Shriver: A Man Who Had Been Given a Great Gift
Sargent Shriver died on January 11, 2011. Lyndon Johnson once referred to Sargent Shriver as "Mr. Poverty," because of his extensive work in creating programs like the Jobs Corps. Today, poverty levels are at an all time high. Our nation could learn a lot about the culture of poverty by studying the life of Sargent Shriver, a man who was given a great gift. The gift of understanding the real needs of children born into poverty. "If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.” These are the words of Sargent ...
Author Interview: Sociology Students Ask Questions About Growing up Poor
The Project: Students studying sociology at a northeasrtern university were asked to read the memoir, "Everything Will Be All Right", as a class assignment. They were asked to use their sociological imaginations to study the behavioral patterns of children born into generational poverty. Upon completion of the class, they were asked to submit questions to the author. The professor then picked a select group of questions from the students and sent them to me. If you have read my memoir, this post will be interesting to you. If you have not, I encourage you to read it anyway because it will provide great insight into ...
America’s Flawed Safety Net
America is facing a mountainous debt, an anemic economy with a shrinking labor market, and an alarming increase in the poverty rate. How America deals with these problems, how they prioritize them, will present a number of really big game changers that could affect the lifestyles of every American. The average American today knows something is wrong with our economy, and they are worried that it will affect their own lifestyles, as well the their children's future, but the problem is they don't know what to do about it. Every family understands the consequences when they get too deeply into debt. But what ...
The War on Poverty Can be Won in the Classroom
I know I have written several articles about the importance of mentors for children born into poverty. But, I'll say it again, without mentors, most children born into poverty are destined to remain stuck in the cycle of poverty. I know many of you, dear readers, are teachers currently using my memoir in your classrooms as a real life example in the study of the culture of poverty. I really enjoy the Q & A sessions with the students. An example of the type of questions which student's ask can be found on my website at Students Interview Poverty Victim. I believe discussions like these can take a lot ...
Teachers: The Front Line in the War on Poverty
One of the many intangibles that holds back poverty victims is the loss of dignity brought on by put-downs and low expectations. Achieving small successes, one milestone at a time, requires a lot of patience. The challenge is to bring harmony and consistency in the child's daily routine in a way that makes progress visible. This cannot be accomplished without the assistance of mentors. For me, those mentors were Job Corps' teachers. Language is one of those discriminators that isolates poverty victims from the middle class. A person can use clothes to disguise their poverty background, and they can use money to give the visual impression they have never known poverty, ...
War! Good God Y’all!
My wife's dog recently threw-up several bits and pieces of something rotten he apparently found and ate while roaming around our farm. Before my wife could clean up the mess, the dog had eaten up everything he had regurgitated. It's a disgusting thing for us humans to witness, but in the dog's world, it is normal behavior. War, like eating your own vomit, is a disgusting thing for us humans to contemplate, whether watching it live on cable news or reading stories about it in the international newspapers. But just as watching a dog eating his own regurgitation is disgustingly normal, so ...
Without Love There Can be no Miracle
Many years ago I had an epiphany experience that changed my life forever. It was a miracle. The unspoken foundation of a miracle is the presence of pure love. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not God-given laws, but if you are lucky enough to be born in a country which allows every citizen the absolute right to enjoy these freedoms, then you are no doubt grateful that you were not born in a Godless communist nation like, say, North Korea. You have the right to worship, the right to live life to its fullest, and to pursue your individual dreams. If ...
The American Crisis in 2012
The January-February 2011 issue of Harvard Magazine, speaking of America’s stagnant economy and rising debt said the following:""Most Americans have not experienced austerity in a long time, so the decade ahead may come as a shock. Expect continued high unemployment, slow wage growth, the possibility of social and political unrest, higher taxes and cuts in government services.” One would think that when faced with the reality that the car is heading toward a cliff, the logical thing to do would be to hit the brakes. Yet it is clear that gridlock in Washington means America's debt problem will only get worse ...
Moving Customer Service to Asia is a Dumb Idea
A recent New York Times article reports that "Americans calling the customer service lines of their airlines, phone companies and banks are now more likely to speak to Mark in Manila than Bharat in Bangalore." Well, this week I spent nearly four hours on the phone with a Dell customer service call center. I don't know if I was talking with either Mark in the Philippines or Bharat in Banalore, but whoever it was, the call was a disaster. I made several attempts to alert Dell that they were sending multiple computers as well as multiple monitors to my home address. My message was ...
Is it Arrogance or Outright Disrespect?
In day-to-day discourse, we inevitably encounter people who are disrespectful in their behavior towards others. I sometimes think this is a character flaw unique to humans. For example, my English Mastiff, Fonzie, gets alongs well with Fuzzy the cat. Like the store clerk who completely ignores you as you stand in front of the checkout counter ready, willing and able to spend your hard-earned money. And, not a day goes by without some maniac driver swerving their moving vehicle in front of mine, just so he/she can get one car length further down the road. Why are there so many drivers on ...
The Mayans May Very Well Have Gotten it Right
Throughout the history of mankind, the calendar has been the central organizing instrument for society to measure time. That was true thousands of years ago and it is still true today. The calendar is the indisputable instrument for organizing our global society and no one did it better than the Mayans. The way we frame, react and prioritize time impacts everything about our lives, including the patterns of our natural behavior. Similarly, we use the clock to break down time into smaller measurements, just because it enables us to frame, react to, or prioritize our calendar day in greater detail. A valid ...
It’s Called Free Will For a Reason
There are a lot of classic year-end resolutions made during this time of the year. But there is a big difference between the commitments we make and the actions we take. We say the words with good intentions and try to make sense of them according to the personal significance they have upon our feelings, our emotions, our vanity, and our present state of mind at a specific moment in time. And, for some of us, the more often you hear new year resolutions, the less faith you have in the commitments. As we grow older the process seems more old-style, ...
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Letter to Visitors of My Blog
As children, we have unbridled aspirations. We dream to be doctors. We dream to be lawyers. We dream to be a Forest Ranger. We dream to be a sports star. We dream because we can. Looking back at our childhood dreams, we remember a time when dreams ha
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Everything You Need to Know About Success
At the age of twenty-six I passed the bar exam and started my own law firm. The Juris Doctor degree I received from law school was my first and only degree. I didn't graduate from high school or college. I never once attended the best sch
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Impoverished Teens Need Jobs
Impoverished teens need jobs. The unemployment rate for teenagers today is a whopping 23%. That is especially bad news for teens from poverty neighborhoods. When it comes to job interviews, the middle class children will have an advanta
more -
How Children in Poverty Can Change Their Life?
The truth about child poverty is that these children have no idea about the social behaviors of the middle class. As they grow older, they want to have a better life—-they want all those things that children in the middle class want.
more -
What Money Can’t Buy
Have you ever considered what you have in life that really matters to you? Chances are what really matters to you is something that money cannot buy. When I was ten years old my father set fire to the only house we ever owned, just to co
more -
Judy Collins: Send in the Clowns
This is Judy Collins singing "Send in the Clowns." I loved this song the first time I heard it many years ago, and I still love it today. It reminds me of the irony of the war on poverty. The perception that our government helps the poor is far fr
more -
Troubled Teen Escapes Poverty: Achieves Financial Independence
That's me, Doug Wallace, top center in the above photo. My siblings and I lived with our parents in the Kirkpatrick Homes housing projects in Granite City, IL in 1955. There were six of us children back then. Years later, our mot
more -
Ten Behaviors Guaranteed To Ruin Your Life
Amidst the desolate landscape of missed opportunities and broken hearts there lies the unanswered question: Why Do People Fail in Life? Could you have detected early warning signs and avoided the misery of failure? How far can will you fa
more -
Doug Wallace Live Radio Interview With the Jim Bohannon Show
This radio interview was with Jim Bohannon (pictured left) of the Jim Bohannon Show, broadcast live over 350 stations nationwide. It involves live interaction with listeners calling into the program. Though I have done dozens of radio in
more -
Hardbound Books are Still Available on Amazon
On October 1, 2009, Doug Wallace's Everything Will Be All Right was released by Greenleaf Publishing Company in Austin, Texas. On December 1, 2009, the book won an Indie Bound Next List notable award for best non-fiction. I was thrilled
more -
Indie Award For Best Non-Fiction: Reader Reviews
Aftr receiving the Indie Next List Notable award for best non-fiction my email inbox started getting crowded from readers, some who knew me from way back when, and some were people who crossed my path during my life journey, and others were
more -
A Mea Culpa Moment
I would like the tell the story of my own mea culpa moment, which taught me an important lesson--failure to say "I'm sorry," has the potential to seriously alter your own future success. In my memoir, Everything Will Be All Right, I write
more -
How to Escape Poverty: Gratitude
My brothers and I spent a lot of time during our teen years talking about our dreams and aspirations when we became adults. At an early age I decided that I would become an attorney. My older brother, Bracy, wanted to own a used car lot
more -
More Americans Sinking Into Poverty–Losing Hope
The most disturbing aspect of this lousy economy is the adversity that is coming at the American people from all directions, especially the poor. The American people can handle one crisis, or perhaps even two or three crises, but add them a
more -
True Life Stories of a Child in Crisis
Children in poverty are emotionally fragile; their feelings are easily hurt by the most ordinary things. The real life stories of children living in dysfunctional homes where there is a constant crisis: utilities suddenly cut-off for nonpayme
more -
Teens in Poverty Face Life-Changing Choices
In the poverty neighborhoods of east Nashville, we lived in a time and a place in which rules were far less important than a healthy self-image. When your sense of self-worth is constantly hammered, demanding respect is the measure by wh
more -
Troubled Teens: How Can We Save Them?
When thinking about the culture of poverty, start with the proposition that poverty is evil– people are not. By way of example, we’re all born equally innocent, a happy baby in search of the good. There is no rule that says a child bor
more -
Life Choices:Free Will or Destiny
“Do you believe in destiny or free will,” I asked my wife. “Well,” she replied. “If you were meant to be shot, then you will never have to worry about drowning.” "Thought provoking response," I amused, but I couldn’t help
more -
How to Overcome the Odds
A university in New Jersey is using my memoir this semester as part of their studies in sociology. A couple of days ago I received a very nice letter from the Professor of Sociology at the university in which she made the following comment, ”We e
more -
Standing Up To My Father’s Rage
I was barely a teenager when I first learned about reducing fractions to their lowest common denominator. It’s not that I hated math. I was gifted with the ability to do many math equations in my head without the need of a writing pad. But, our
more -
Teachers at Work
When I was contacted by the Principal at the Junior High School in Llano, Texas a few months back, I was thrilled that they had chosen to use my book to study the sociology of the culture of poverty. I had no idea of the adventure I was about t
more -
When Entitlements Hurt Children in Poverty
The US Census report for 2010 reports a significant rise in the number of people in poverty in 2009 as compared to 2008. I don’t think this is a surprise to most people. The New York Times reported in September 2011 that more people are living in
more -
Character Counts
Young people generally value the opinions of their elders, and will often ask questions like, What advice do you give to someone who really wants to succeed financially? I used to ask the same kind of questions to my elders during my younger y
more -
Myths and Inconvenient Truths About Children in Poverty
There are many unknown factors when it comes to poverty, especially if you come from a background of the middle and upper classes. Though we can't predict the future, we can dispel some myths, and confirm some inconvenient truths, that collective
more -
Sargent Shriver: A Man Who Had Been Given a Great Gift
Sargent Shriver died on January 11, 2011. Lyndon Johnson once referred to Sargent Shriver as "Mr. Poverty," because of his extensive work in creating programs like the Jobs Corps. Today, poverty levels are at an all time high. Our nation could learn
more -
Author Interview: Sociology Students Ask Questions About Growing up Poor
The Project: Students studying sociology at a northeasrtern university were asked to read the memoir, "Everything Will Be All Right", as a class assignment. They were asked to use their sociological imaginations to study the behavioral patterns of
more -
America’s Flawed Safety Net
America is facing a mountainous debt, an anemic economy with a shrinking labor market, and an alarming increase in the poverty rate. How America deals with these problems, how they prioritize them, will present a number of really big game changers
more -
The War on Poverty Can be Won in the Classroom
I know I have written several articles about the importance of mentors for children born into poverty. But, I'll say it again, without mentors, most children born into poverty are destined to remain stuck in the cycle of poverty. I know many of
more -
Teachers: The Front Line in the War on Poverty
One of the many intangibles that holds back poverty victims is the loss of dignity brought on by put-downs and low expectations. Achieving small successes, one milestone at a time, requires a lot of patience. The challenge is to bring h
more -
War! Good God Y’all!
My wife's dog recently threw-up several bits and pieces of something rotten he apparently found and ate while roaming around our farm. Before my wife could clean up the mess, the dog had eaten up everything he had regurgitated. It's a disgusting thin
more -
Without Love There Can be no Miracle
Many years ago I had an epiphany experience that changed my life forever. It was a miracle. The unspoken foundation of a miracle is the presence of pure love. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not God-given laws, but if you are lucky
more -
The American Crisis in 2012
The January-February 2011 issue of Harvard Magazine, speaking of America’s stagnant economy and rising debt said the following:""Most Americans have not experienced austerity in a long time, so the decade ahead may come as a shock. Expect continued
more -
Moving Customer Service to Asia is a Dumb Idea
A recent New York Times article reports that "Americans calling the customer service lines of their airlines, phone companies and banks are now more likely to speak to Mark in Manila than Bharat in Bangalore." Well, this week I spent nearly fo
more -
Is it Arrogance or Outright Disrespect?
In day-to-day discourse, we inevitably encounter people who are disrespectful in their behavior towards others. I sometimes think this is a character flaw unique to humans. For example, my English Mastiff, Fonzie, gets alongs well with Fuzzy the
more -
The Mayans May Very Well Have Gotten it Right
Throughout the history of mankind, the calendar has been the central organizing instrument for society to measure time. That was true thousands of years ago and it is still true today. The calendar is the indisputable instrument for organizing our g
more -
It’s Called Free Will For a Reason
There are a lot of classic year-end resolutions made during this time of the year. But there is a big difference between the commitments we make and the actions we take. We say the words with good intentions and try to make sense of them according
more
