Curiosity often gets the blame (or the credit, depending on your point of view) for killing cats, but more often it leads to learning. Take this morning, for example, when I was fortunate enough to have Presidents' Day* off and learned that someone named Eamon Loingsigh from New York had started following this blog. I'm … Continue reading Curiosity, Irish history and the gombeens
Tag: History
Gateway Arch a poor choice to symbolize this stark divide
A family trip to St. Louis in the mid-1960s was the first thing that came to mind when I saw Meredith Talusan's post about the December 8 cover of The New Yorker. The Gateway Arch was not quite finished. Two graceful arcs of gleaming stainless steel reached into the muggy summer air toward a single point in the … Continue reading Gateway Arch a poor choice to symbolize this stark divide
Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia – NYTimes.com
A great debate raged in London: Would it be wrong to feed the starving Irish with free food, thereby setting up a “culture of dependency”? via Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia - NYTimes.com.
Save your company’s history: You’ve got the words
Businesses run on words. Next to people, they may be your most important assets. Think about everything you store or distribute in the form of words: Ads, brochures, news releases, web copy, tweets and blog posts are just a few examples. Collectively, those words tell your company's story. Think about organizing them now to save … Continue reading Save your company’s history: You’ve got the words
The Smith Compound 