Last weekend Lynnda and I were in Las Vegas, Nevada, for Influence 2021, The National Speakers Association’s Annual Conference. This year at Caesar’s Palace. The plane to Vegas was packed and late for the 4.5-hour flight. The temperature when we landed was 116 degrees. Humidity was ...

First impressions are pretty important. That’s why so many of us do our best to make our first encounter with someone a positive experience. Whether we are seeking to make friends, find a new job, get acquainted with a new neighbor or establish ourselves in a particular role, the first ...

A friend of mine decided to take a last-minute vacation to Florida this month before school starts. I have some travel resources and offered to help him. Finding a hotel for his narrow time period was hard with everyone traveling again. Finding the nice accommodations he wanted for his wife ...

America is unique in the world. This nation has been able to accomplish the incredible. To win our independence we had to defeat England, the most powerful nation on earth in 1776. The number of ships, planes and tanks we manufactured after we entered World War II in 1941 was amazing. We ...

Two hundred and twenty-seven miles of the National Road run through Ohio. Groundbreaking for this portion of the first federally funded road took place in St. Clairsville on July 4, 1825. This was after George Washington and Thomas Jefferson decided that a trans-Appalachian road was necessary ...

Each time I go out these days, I feel like something is missing. Despite the fact that only about half of the United States’ population is vaccinated against COVID-19, it seems that more like 90 percent of the population is going unmasked. That causes a great deal of concern for me, since I ...