I wanted to take a moment and reflect on 2013 and the things that happened during this past year. I also wanted to take a look at my resolutions or goals for this past year and see how I did. I didn’t just make resolutions in January of 2013 and never look back on them.…
I love Christmas music, of all kinds, and all demoninations. I love to play Christmas music whether it is playing trombone in a full orchestra or brass quartet or euphonium or tuba in a TubaChristmas concert. I love the sounds and the merriment. But I know that some people loathe it, with a passion! I’m…
We need to take time to celebrate; we need to celebrate the little things and the big things. It’s not very often that I have celebrated things at work with more than a toast. As a lawyer, I’ve worked on hundred of deals and seen many contracts signed, licenses negotiated, and so on; but these…
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…