Many are invited but few accept

March 21, 2011 Dear Marketplace Friend,     Blame the Boomers. Count me in, I suppose. My – our – generation has insisted that we examine the whole sociological/cultural thing… and renegotiate everything. “Start with a clean page” is the First Commandment in the Boomer Top Ten. We don’t accept anything as a “given;” except, …

The Crisis in the Land of the Rising Sun

March 14, 2011 Dear Marketplace Friend,       The headline was sourced in Canada, not in the United States – or, Japan: “No Doomsday Seen in Recent Quakes, Just ‘Bad Luck’.”     The focus of the following article was purely scientific: “Powerful killer earthquakes have rocked one corner of the globe to another …

Winning a Lost Someone

March 7, 2011 Dear Marketplace Friend,       I was tempted to announce that I would no longer be producing this weekly digital discourse, created at one of Starbucks’ 10,000 US locations before sun-up; instead, I’m trying to grab the timeslot on the VideoCam Network just after “Charlie’s Korner.” Why not allow my Point of …