Sobs pierce the predawn darkness on the narrow cobblestone street. One wonders if it is a drunk that is hunched over in the doorway. It is certainly someone who is emotionally overwhelmed. Such a well-built, well-kempt man does not normally weep so violently at this hour of the day. Observers wonder: “What could be so disturbing as to make a grown man cry like
It is one of the few things I remember from that early era of my life – half a century ago. On November 7, 1972, early election returns were already showing a clear trend. Although the polls had only been closed for an hour or so in my home state of Montana, Richard Nixon was being re-elected for a second term – in what
Life can often leave us scratching our heads… trying to sort things it out. “Why did that happen? Where did that come from? Why can’t I seem to get a handle on that? Why can’t I ever seem to get it together?” It is something that happens all the time, to everyone. Consider this example from the corporate world. According to an article written in
I grew up just 70 miles west of Custer Battlefield in Montana. Colonel George Armstrong Custer was an officer in the American Civil War and American Indian Wars. The battlefield and museum tell the story about June 25, 1876. Custer, while leading the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, in Montana Territory, against a coalition of Native American tribes, was