When there’s water all over the bottom of a refrigerator it’s a sign something is wrong. Our Samsung refrigerator has a problem, and it seems,…
JohnMOctober 6, 2021
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Surprised. Pleasantly surprised along with wonderment is how I’d describe my reaction when a lady I didn’t know came up to me gushing with thank…
JohnMSeptember 25, 2021
We all run into a lot of different people in our day-to-day business. After a while we get triggers as to how things might go.…
JohnMSeptember 22, 2021
I was a cafeteria monitor for at least my senior year in high school (maybe my junior year also). It wasn’t a bad job. We…
JohnMSeptember 15, 2021
We recently took a long-weekend trip to Denver to see a client and relax for a few days. I noticed something I often notice in…
JohnMSeptember 8, 2021
It’s not only the title of an old Rolling Stones song but the mantra of some business owners. I recently witnessed this twice and the…
JohnMSeptember 1, 2021
There’s an old story, about how if you put a frog in boiling water, it will hop out but if you put it in cool…
JohnMAugust 25, 2021
Recently I had a Rotary Global Grant approved for our ongoing work in Antigua. As I was writing the grant, I realized there are a…
JohnMAugust 21, 2021
New York City finally announced the results of the Mayoral primary. As per a variety of sources I deduced because of ranked choice voting this…
JohnMAugust 18, 2021
The Trump Organization allegedly avoided paying taxes on almost $2 million of compensation to an employee. The allegations and prosecution shouldn’t surprise anybody because: There’s…
JohnMAugust 11, 2021
Over the weekend our 14-month-old puppy Coco caught another squirrel. Dogs do catch critters but there are some things you should know about Coco. She’s…
JohnMAugust 4, 2021
You only have to read the headlines to realize there’s very little political collaboration these days. And that’s within the two parties as well as…
JohnMJuly 28, 2021
This weekend I received a postcard from the WA State Department of Health encouraging me to get a Covid vaccine. Funny because I got vaccinated…
JohnMJuly 21, 2021
The US is opening. The EU is opening. And the owner of a painting company told me he could do twice as much work if…
JohnMJuly 17, 2021
I looked at the title of a recent article by Joanna Stern in the Wall Street Journal and felt it was either aimed directly at…
JohnMJuly 14, 2021
I was on a conference call with a client whose business was hit by a triple whammy; Covid and two things that must remain confidential…
JohnMJuly 12, 2021
The other day the Wall Street Journal wrote about how, “Small Investors Look to Small-Town Homes.” One investor said he targets C-level homes in decent…
JohnMJuly 8, 2021
Exit planning gets a lot of buzz but what is it really? Here’s an example of what could of, should have been done with proper…
JohnMJuly 6, 2021
I was wrong. I’ll admit it. Go back a year and then I thought a lot of distressed companies would hit the market in Q2…
JohnMJune 30, 2021
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