by Morning Reflections | Apr 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
(c) Getty Images “It’s all a big lie.” That’s how Wall Street icon Bernie Madoff broke the news on December 10, 2008, to his two sons that his world-renowned investment fund was actually a gigantic Ponzi scheme – the biggest financial fraud in...
by Morning Reflections | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
It seemed like such a great idea.The creators of Happy Days, America’s top-rated TV show, decided to launch their fifth season by sending the fictional Cunningham family and their closest friends to Hollywood. What adventures might ensue?Arthur Fonzarelli (“the...
by Morning Reflections | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
The origins of state nicknames are a bit of a mystery.As social historian Bill Bryson points out in Made in America: “No one can say for sure why Iowans are called Hawkeyes, why North Carolinians are Tarheels, why Kansans are Jayhawkers (there is no such bird), or why...
by Morning Reflections | Apr 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Viktor Frankl yearned to make a contribution to humanity.As a respected young psychiatrist in Vienna before World War II, he had meticulously prepared the manuscript for a book that he dared to believe might help change the world. Since he and his wife were not...
by Morning Reflections | Apr 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
On two occasions more than 40 years ago, the whole world almost had a very bad day.At mid-morning on November 9, 1979, watch officers at the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, were shocked to see their early warning screens...
