From Tampa Florida - Connecting Through Music

By 1999, I had spent almost two decades as a manufacturer’s representative in the lawn & garden and hardware industry. It taught me many aspects of marketing and design in terms of packaging and promotion. It was then that I was going through a divorce from a 29-year marriage, which was the start of an early on-depression. In the following three years, my mom was diagnosed with colon cancer, my dad attempted suicide over the thought of...


Been caught stealing: tribal spiritual misappropriation

Yet another celebrity is feeling the internet backlash for appropriating a Native American headdress: this time it’s hockey legend Wayne Gretzky’s wife, Janet. Her Instagram photo features her four daughters in headdresses, as reported by Vincent Schilling in India Country Media Today. In recent years,...


Digital Destiny

 

Writers deal with editorial calendars, topics for articles, subjects for thought pieces. We try to plan ahead, storing paragraphs, sentences, resources, interviews; or an idea to follow up on or expand upon, thinking it might add that special something to make an article that much better.

With Destiny as the topic, numerous thoughts came to mind. We had a cat by that name, because it was destiny that she came into...


Lynn Berger: Finding the Right Fit for Life and Work

 For more than two decades, Lynn Berger has been helping people find their workplace bliss.

“When I first joined the workforce I was studying business and finance and then I realized I was more interested in what was going on with the people and organization,” she says. So, in graduate school she majored in Organizational Psychology and went to work in Human Resources and Consulting, utilizing the understanding of organizational...


Millennials Mapping the Way for a New American Workforce

Roughly defined as a group of individuals between the ages of 18 and 34, the “Millennial” generation is now projected to surpass Baby Boomers as the largest living generation in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 national population projections.

Disillusioned by dwindling long-term employment options and dismal...


What’s With All the Kindness?

I have seen people actually get mad because they did not get a “thank you” for holding the door for someone.

So what if you didn’t get a thank you! You held that door because you felt like doing something nice. You were not asked to hold the door; you did it from the kindness of your heart. If you voluntarily do a favor you should not be looking for any kind of gratification. Watching someone taking advantage of your favor should...


Is Your Organization Grant-Ready?

There are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations and more than 350,000 registered congregations in the United States, many of which exist for the purpose of helping those in need. Most of these organizations rely on donors to provide the funding they need to fulfill their missions. Many also look to state, federal or private grants for financial support. Unfortunately, most people are misinformed when it comes to the availability of...


How Much Authority Is Enough?

The issue of civil rights has gotten a lot of play of late in the media. Police behaving like thugs, the TSA practicing "risk-based security," the right of the LGBT community to marry, the NSA listening in – all of these issues raise legitimate concerns about our relationship with authority.

                  It has always been a push-pull with us; there are always “bad guys” looking for an unfair advantage. On the other hand, we...