Lessons from Everyday Life

Portland, Maine— It was a beautiful spring day in Pasadena, California. The wisteria and lilacs were blooming, the air was crisp and the...

Portland, Maine—Recently, after reconnecting with the good folks at Dockerty Health Care in Michigan, I decided to give them "a leg up"...

Watching this year's exciting Super Bowl with the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams reminded me of my attendance at Super Bowl XVI...

Portland, Maine— On Dec. 31, 2021, I woke up with a hopeful feeling. After the deaths of three good friends in 2021, I was looking...

Portland, Maine — Almost every industry in the U.S. today is dealing with a shortage of workers. The delta and omicron variants are...

Portland, Maine—I had just received my first hospital assignment at Leland Memorial Hospital in Riverdale, Maryland (just north of D.C....

Portland, Maine-- At our favorite breakfast restaurant here in Portland, one of the better wait staff just walked off the job, blurting...

Portland, Maine— My wife Sharon and I just completed our first road trip since the start of the pandemic. The distance between South...

Portland, Maine – Growing up in a home of faith facilitated my belief in God at an early age. My father, a great English teacher, writer,...

Portland, Maine—The day after attending the “Three Tenors Concert” in the historic Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan in July 1999, I...

Portland, Maine— Traveling for the first time since the pandemic, my wife and I booked a flight down to the Maryland-DC area. Prior to...

Having another hospital in Guam's medical portfolio has brought several advantages to the island’s residents At the end of 2019 prior to...

I'm tired of wearing a mask. I'm tired of social distancing. I miss New York's Broadway.I miss breakfasts at First Light in Scarborough....

Hong Kong. That mystical place where east meets west. That unique history-filled beautiful territory owned by the British for 100 years...

Portland, Maine — I had my first introduction to fame in 1977 during our Andrews University Band trip to Romania, where concert-goers —...

Portland, Maine — My participation as part of a musical group began in my high school band days at Adelphian Academy in Holly, Michigan,...

The 2019 holiday season was inspiring, festive and full of good cheer. 2020? Not so much. Starting at Thanksgiving and ending on New...

Portland, Maine— On this gorgeous fall Sunday in Southern Maine, my wife and I enjoyed our first cup of coffee and flipped on the TV to...

Portland, Maine-- Two of my favorite places, Guam and Maine, both had their first confirmed case of Covid-19 around Friday the 13th of...

Portland, Maine— A Johns Hopkins’ study published in 2016 estimated there are at least 250,000 annual deaths in U.S. hospitals related to...

During the time of Covid-19, most of us have had significant increases in our average time spent watching TV, Netflix, Hulu, etc. A...

Portland, Maine— In this unusual time of great need for physical healing, jobs, financial help, and, in many cases, food on the table...

Portland, Maine — Let's face it, anyone over 40 has been thinking, even if remotely, what if? What if I test positive? The older we are,...

"Never does the human soul appear so strong when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.” - Edwin Hubbell Chapina In Part One...

Portland Maine--Last night one of our neighbor families got into a real loud fight. The husband was yelling, the children were crying,...

Portland, Maine--Where America's day begins and begins. Guam, a U.S. territory, west of the international dateline likes to say that this...

Portland, Maine — It is only human that when an injustice occurs to us, we want to get revenge. However, my father taught me the biblical...

The first wave of a powerful tsunami has already reached Guam, and the second and third waves are on their way with exponentially...

Portland, Maine— Congrats to Kansas City Chief and San Francisco 49er fans. Your teams have had a phenomenal year and this will be an...

Portland, Maine — I was fresh out of receiving my MBA from the School of Business at Andrews University. After spending a year or so...

Portland, Maine—In 1990 I enjoyed my first cruise aboard the QE2 (Cunard ship Queen Elizabeth II). What a classic ship and what a great...

Portland, Maine — In last month’s column about legendary physicians, I was reminded about the talents of Dr. Jorge Garcia, heart surgeon...

Portland, Maine — Recently I got a phone call from my personal physician, Myron Krueger of Brunswick, Maine, who wanted to let me know...

Portland, Maine — One of the neat things about every job I've had is the friendship that has always developed from unexpected sources. Of...

Portland, Maine — Once upon a time, the State of Michigan was the world leader of the auto industry and the center of research, industry...

Portland, Maine — After a recent trip to Washington, D.C., where I ran into a former colleague whom I hadn't seen for some time, I was...

Chicago, Illinois — This story is about seeing an old friend after several years, and then realizing I had never said thank you for...

South Portland, Maine— 1968 was arguably the most tumultuous year in modern U.S. history. Jan. 23: North Korea captures the USS Pueblo...

South Portland, Maine — I read the news today, oh boy! "Uber driver hospitalized after throat slit by passenger.” "Pregnant Lyft driver...

South Portland, Maine — Growing up in Michigan following in my father's footsteps, I loved sports, especially football, baseball and...

South Portland, Maine — Sometimes in life we are ready to write good people off as having no value without seeing the positive side of...

South Portland, Maine — The 2018 Super Bowl on Feb. 4 was a big event in New England as Tom Brady and the Patriots had an opportunity to...

South Portland, Maine —In management, the most effective C-Suites I've seen had great diversity, from the standpoint of sex, age and...

South Portland, Maine — In 2016, after 20 years of work experience and success in the C-Suite of several large healthcare organizations...