Panic It was my senior year in High School. I was presenting a book report in English class. When I was embarrassed, I would blush and feel hot. I was not embarrassed. Embarrassment would have been a relief. My friends said I was as white as a sheet of paper. And I...

My Childhood Fascination with Radio What got me interested in podcasting? Thank you for asking. I made my first radio. It was a crystal set on a wooden board. I was ten years old. The faint and scratchy sound coming through the military headphones was magical. My...

Reality When I left the cubicle at age twenty-three and began business development work, I began activities taking me far from my comfort zone, but deep into my interest zone. My role was to get business for the company. I was calling on architects, engineers,...

Lessons Learned Last week I wrote about Mr. Ely loaning me a set of Earl Nightingale cassette tapes named Lead the Field. The lessons from those six tapes gave that young me the motivation and courage to get out of the isolation of my cubicle. Jumped the Gun While...

Withdrawing In my early twenties, I worked at a civil engineering firm. I produced drawings and calculations related to highway and water treatment plant design. My tasks didn’t require me to interact much with others outside my cubicle. As the months went by, I...