Our senior dog has cancer

Eight days ago, we were a happy household and expected our almost 11-year-old senior Scottish terrier, Hudson, to be with us for another four or five years. Six months ago, the vet surgeon was confident that she had gotten all the cancer. He was due for another...

Seeds for Thought

I’ve been told I have a “popcorn brain.” The motor in my popcorn machine is always humming and lots of ideas pop out. They’re thought seeds. Sometimes the conditions are right, and I cultivate them. Several of those seeds wind up as posts in this blog. Other seeds...

An Inspiring Story

Too much of the news focuses on “Ain’t it awful?!” There are other, positive, stories that the media rarely tells. Here is one of those stories. Last weekend my wise bride and I went to a fundraiser, an auction, and a musical performance. It was not our first such...

Transitions

In the next 50 years, you will make several transitions, some by chance and some by choice. This post is about predictable shifts that we’ll experience in the next half-century. Which of the following applies to you? If you’re working, there’s a pretty good chance you...

Opportunity

Here is what I choose to believe about opportunity. I believe that opportunity comes to both the prepared and unprepared, the wise and the foolish. Often opportunity is disguised as a problem or calamity. Henry J. Kaiser said “Problems are only opportunities in work...

Make Me Richer!

Most months several potential investors contact me to buy apartments. The task is harder than most of them realize. They expect to win and are often baffled when they don’t prevail … quickly. They don’t understand the San Diego market is a tougher league than most of...
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