Today I have a guest blog by my great grandmother, Gloie Mae Flora. No, she’s not alive still, but this is a write up of her notes from her drive from Elwood, Indiana to Seattle, Washington for the 1962 World’s Fair. I love the agricultural observations throughout her notes. The language and notations are a…
Thanking people who helped you can be really important. I don’t think we do enough of that in our daily lives. I want to take a moment to thank a few people who have helped me over the last 15 months. I started Retrofit on Christmas Eve in 2012 (no reason to wait, really) and…
I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate for dinner for two at the French Laundry at our Vistage All-City Meeting last September. It took several months to schedule this dinner as the reservations open two months in advance to the calendar date. I dutifully called for weeks. When the lady taking reservations kept…
Have we learned anything in the last 150 years? Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was given one year after the famed battle, in the middle of the Civil War, to dedicate the battlefield as a cemetery. The speech lasted a mere 2 minutes. It was preceded by a speech from Edward Everett that lasted an agonizing 2…