April 13th, 2010 More Aunt Wisdom Twins Samella and Rosella moved to Chicago in 1959 and 1961. Trained as nurses, Chicago offered better employment opportunities. Aunt “Sam” is an angel, the definition of unconditional love. She offered lots of hugs during the times when I needed them the most. Most of them came after run [...]
I was never taught about credit cards before or after I left off to college and the average American doesn’t. I had to learn about credit cards the hard way. I thought making the minimum payments each month would be fine but that was the problem, I did not pay them on time. Before I [...]
April 6th School Years, Our Values, My Aunts Aunt Betty: Aunt Ida and I bumped heads daily. I’d ask myself, “Why is Aunt Ida so hard on me? Why should I have to do all this hard work when all my friends are at the play ground playing baseball and tag?” Aunt Betty was the [...]
3/30/2010, Elementary & Middle School Years, Value System Set, My Aunts Aunt Ida: I’m not sure if my grandfather assigned my Aunt Ida the task of making sure I completed my homework and did well in school. Ida was his youngest daughter. Ida was a “warrior” type personality. Direct yet loving. There was no misunderstanding [...]
Judging from the title of this post you might think that I’m correlating a relationship between having a good business with a prerequisite of having a good education. That’s partially true, but that’s not what we’re going to discuss today; today I want to expand on the idea of educating your customers and clients on [...]
I learned early in life that loaning money to family and friends could ruin valuable relationships. It is not the best idea to loan money to friends and family if you do not have it to lose. I personally feel that the best thing to do is to give the person in need the money [...]
3/23/2010, The Elementary & Middle School Years, Lessons from My Grandfather Ernest and I organized all our little league baseball and basketball games in the community. Ernest arranged for us to play teams from other communities and I would help recruit some of the local players. In our neighborhood, baseball was “King” so we always [...]
In the beginning of my 8th grade year my mother moved our family to Minnesota without her husband at the time. The man of our house was in prison, which wasn’t the first or last time that he was there. Minnesota was for the better in my mother’s eyes because she had more opportunities there [...]
3/16/2010, Chicago, 1963 Grandfather left Arkansas and found work in a paper factory. He rented a small apartment on Chicago’s west side. He sent for us in 1963: Grandmother, my aunts Betty and Ida, and me. Houses and apartment buildings; jammed together. Constant street noise from traffic and the conversations of thousands of people. No [...]
According to the reports and statistics from the media, we live in a recession and about 10.4% of Americans are unemployed. It’s not surprising when you think about, if I had to make a guess I would think that a majority of those unemployed Americans weren’t satisfied with their jobs to begin with. It was [...]
