When is the last time you tried something new? Something out of your comfort zone? Something that might not work but you tried it anyway?
I put a friend on the spot the other night at my husband’s retirement party – sort of blindsided her when I asked her to come up and join the roast [...]
Kill’em with kindness. You get more flies with honey. Engage the customer.
All strange things to be thinking while sitting stage side in the Hustler Club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans but that’s how I think. The first five dancers to hit the main stage starred at a spot on the wall, never smiled and [...]
In honor of National Garlic Day, I am sharing the Justiz Family garlic salad dressing recipe:
Justiz Family Cuban Salad
2 average size garlic cloves pulverized with salt
*salt keeps garlic from jumping out of the container while being pulverized
1 TB Sour Cream (or nonfat plain yogurt)
1 TB Mayonnaise
1 TB regular vegetable oil (other oils including olive oil [...]
Another deserving family will receive a new home and be featured this Sunday on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. This particular build happened close by and I was able to drop by a few days in a row and watch the process. It really is quite amazing to watch it all happen in just about [...]
Spring Break has come and gone along with a few dollars out of my wallet. Charlie the Wonder Husband and I packed up the boys and headed to San Francisco last week. While Daddy worked, the boys and I hit every San Francisco landmark we could – Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito, Coit Tower, Muir Forest, [...]
As long as the work gets done, gets done in a timely manner, is quality work and keeps the ledgers on the profit side – do you care where your employees are or when they work? If so, why?
Despite the fact you really couldn’t call what I do “playing golf,” it is what I set [...]
Reposted from original Vollmer Voice post January 8, 2010
Stuff happens. It just does. And we all know how these things can really be blown out of proportion and drag on for days, months, sometimes even years. (Hello Balloon Boy Dad.) However, if you handle whatever mistake has happened correctly and quickly, the ‘event’ will most [...]
Two columns caught my attention over the last couple of days.
One from New York Times OpEd writer/rock star Bono. “Ten for the Next Ten.” In his words, the list is “10 ideas that might make the next 10 years more interesting, healthy or civil. Some are trivial, some fundamental. They have little in common with [...]
