I had been to Birmingham in the 1980s on business and concluded there was no reason to go back, but in the early 2000s I read that the historic, downtown area of Birmingham had been refurbished and was quite nice, with busy upscale bars and restaurants and rehabilitated historic buildings. So I decided to stop there for the night.
Q: My two teenage daughters, 13 and 15, are constantly begging me to buy them clothes.
Coercive power offends. But, power isn’t a dirty word, with it you get things done. Without power, nothing gets done. Power is the ability to change things.
Have you noticed that mulling something over and over and stewing about it can make you nuts?
I got an email from someone recently that included a simple phrase about something personal … and that phrase took me down twisted paths where I got lost in assumptions, conjecture and all sorts of other mind-numbing nonsense.
