UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

We are all in search of rewards and awards. Money, fame, power, honor, recognition.

Some admit it more readily than others. Some find the need to camouflage it.

But the quest is universal.

Today I went to a funeral.
A rite of passage for a man who was an inventor, created the cordless electric knife, fought for his country in WW II, became a talented artist, graduated from Cooper Union and raised a wonderful family.
His story is uniquely American. Free to dream, to innovate, to build factories, to [...]

Billy Joel says that every time he sings “Just The Way You Are” he starts thinking, “I wonder if I should have steak or chicken tonight for dinner.” The audience is enrapt in one of Joel’s greatest hits, assuming he is crooning his heart out about the only woman he has ever loved, and he [...]

It was the late fall of 1960 and John Fitzgerald Kennedy was about to be anointed by the American people as President of the United States.
I was a kid on a school bus, too young and preoccupied with an out of control family, academia and a budding fascination with girls to care a whit about [...]