Category: Life Lessons

Here’s how. At least it works for me. When old friends e-mail you with the latest scare, tell them — no, prove to them — they’re full of baloney. E-mail panics and their close cousins e-chain letters usually come from folks who live out of town. Why e-mail in town? Actually, a lot of my […]

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock I’m ready for my nervous breakdown, Mr. DeMille Saturday, Jan. 29, 2006. Modern science, specifically that financed by pharmaceutical companies, continually comes up with new medicines, new cures or at least new treatments for symptoms. That’s why they whine about government or anything else that slows them down. Lives could […]

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. Waiting. Some Enron executive pleaded guilty today to being a crook. Enron? Wasn’t that way back? (Wait here, I’ll check.) The corporation filed for bankruptcy in 2001. He’s a criminal who hurt thousands of employees, yet imagine waiting four years to learn how long your prison […]

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Next Big Thing, on down the line The next big thing: Is there some age where there is no Next Big Thing? In your 20s, to say nothing of college and before that the high school years, there’s always another brass ring for which to make a grab. From high […]

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005: Apparently, I spoke out of turn. I didn’t mean to cause a stunned silence but rather say something I thought was not out of line, not unusual. I said the same thing to two different audiences, and got this same reaction: A look of incredulity with […]

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005: In contemporary language, we Americans say we love take-charge people, yet we resent controlling people. Are people one thing at home and another at work? This approaches Walter Mitty. Let’s think, no, people are as they are all the way through. Except that the worldly leader […]