With a three-day meeting of the Conference Board’s Government Relations Executive (GRE) Council* scheduled for the latter half of this week, rather than wait until the last minute like I’m doing now, my idea was to get started and complete this week’s blog post on Monday.
It’s weird how the mind works. Earlier this week, as I attended a home dedication for a post-9/11 veteran, while sitting outside in wind chill temperatures in the 20s, Cicero’s On Duties, a book I last read as a philosophy major, came to mind.
I was in Phoenix for SCOA’s annual Credit Manager’s meeting. Beyond presenting my take on the U.S. economic and political outlooks, the trip offered me the chance to visit Sunstate Equipment, North America’s sixth largest construction equipment rental company, and touch base with many of SCOA’s other subsidiaries.
I’ve begun to receive a few questions about what next month’s off-year elections may portend for the 2026 mid-term elections.
October 1 was a beautiful day in downtown Washington, D.C. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, the temperature was a perfect 75 degrees, humidity was low at just 36%, and winds were light at 9 mph. What’s more, traffic was minimal, and I had my choice of seats on metro rides both to and from work.
My wife has been on me for months (well, years) to consolidate our two storage units into one. We have a small storage unit in the building we live in and maintain another one in a nearby town close to the home we sold when we decided to downsize.
September 26, 2025 Read More »
Among others, September is National Coupon, National Preparedness, and National Library Card Sign-Up Month…
September 19, 2025 Read More »
Earlier this week, my thought was to write about turning 60, what that means in Japanese culture, relate my celebration of Kanreki to French historian Fernand Braudel’s three cycles of history (day-to-day events; paradigm shifts; and longue durée), and finally link those cycles to current political and public policy trends. However, the aftershocks ripping across political Washington of Turning Point USA founder and conservative star Charlie Kirk’s assassination are just too big to ignore.
September 12, 2025 Read More »
Yesterday, after breakfast, my wife said to me, “Don’t throw those bags out…I need those bags to put my bags in.”
