Weekly Thoughts

  "This is our job as leaders: to offer positive solutions and empower people. Our duty is to tackle our problems before they tackle us...

“The best way to ensure that something is done correctly is to do it myself.”   OK, raise your hand if you have heard someone say this.   Gr...

We just finished up celebrating Hanukkah, also referred to as the Festival of Lights.   Naturally, the celebration includes fried foods, suc...

I have been personally affected by COVID.   That’s affected, not infected.   I am pretty sure that we have reached the point where most of u...

Even though the elections are over, fingers are still being pointed about the final outcome.   And so, the Blame Game has begun.   We are i...

“I got this!”   How many times have we heard this?   How many times have we said this?   There are two outcomes – you got this, own whatever...

Dining outside (or eating al fresco), people laughing together and children running up and down the sidewalk – clear signs that summer is he...

Imagine the year is 1519 and we have been sailing on a ship crossing the Atlantic for weeks on end.   We know that we are going to lan...

I have barely stepped outside this week.   No, I am not infected nor under quarantine.   Nor am I afraid of getting sick myself.   It is ...

To close or not to close…that was the question plaguing me all week long.   As President of our synagogue, I looked towards President Tru...

As a young adult, I found out that there was a family curse, one that possibly lead to the death of my paternal grandmother years earl...

As a president of an organization, I have had to ponder two concepts – leadership and delegation. Oxford Dictionary provides the foll...

I am not following the Impeachment Trial, but I am bothered by the choice of words being used by both sides and easily gleaned from the h...

Entitlement: “The fact of having a right to something,” or, “The belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treat...

Do you ever stand naked in front of a mirror?   I know this sounds like a line from the movie “Airplane”.   I mean this more in a phil...

It is funny to think that our weekends can be as busy, or busier, than our weekdays!   Recently, I was reminded that the weekends are the...

Team Leader, Manager, Counselor, Head Usher, Supervisor, Chairman, Director, Vice President, President, Business Owner.   Here is a list ...

I procrastinated!   My father was great at pointing out when I procrastinated while growing up.   I am sure there were other adjective...

We are all familiar with the saying, “Clothes Makes the man.”   There was a point in my life where I did my best to prove this wrong -...

I have to confess – being a president of an organization is not easy.   Keep in mind the plaque that Harry S Truman used to display, “The...