Life goals bring everything into focus the way the right rug ties a room together. It starts with a list of things to accomplish by a certain year and an ambitious plan for doing it. There’s the calendar with each day, week, month, year, with room to pencil in your progress. And you are progressing, […]
LIFE GOALS: CLIMB THE LADDER, WANDER AROUND, OR BOTH
August 20, 2023 by David Gillaspie
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HOW TO DO SOCIAL REFORM SO IT WORKS
June 19, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Social reform in the good old days hardly came up in conversations. Where I come from you could graduate from high school one day, go to work in the mill the next, and retire after a few decades of picking slivers. Or, go to college and learn how to tie a tie and rake in […]
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