by Morning Reflections | Apr 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
The average American may think that the “Big Game” is the Super Bowl, the seventh game of the World Series, or that magical hoops contest back in high school when he/she won the state championship with a three-pointer at the buzzer.But the game with the greatest...
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...
