Listen to “Paper Losses” by Fred Smith Several years ago I read an article using the research of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Twersky to illustrate the brain’s reaction to [...]
Listen to “The Great Wave of Schism” by Fred Smith Once upon a time, according to geologist Alfred Wegener in his 1912 book “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, all the [...]
Listen to “His Mother’s Son” by Fred Smith Over the holidays I had time to think again about images of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Traditionally, what is our picture of [...]
Listen to “Sisters: A Christmas Story” by Fred Smith I’ve been reading this week about the disaster of Sumner Redstone’s family. While Sumner built great business ventures in [...]
Listen to “Haters” By Fred Smith Facebook is not the place for subtlety and we all know that. Yet, this week I posted a spoof from the Babylon Bee and several good friends [...]
Listen to “Quo Vadis?” by Fred Smith Haley was five when she came to me and said she wanted to set up to sell lemonade in the front yard. Not being the craftsman my father [...]
Listen to “The Thing With Feathers” By Fred Smith Watch the SYFY channel and one of the obvious changes you’ll see is the apocalyptic nature of so much science fiction [...]
Listen to “Fifty Ways To Leave” by Fred Smith When I began writing this blog almost eight years ago, John Kelly was my editor. He told me, “Don’t worry about being relevant or [...]
Listen to “I Stand Relieved” By Fred Smith Almost ten years ago, the Board of The Gathering and I started thinking about succession. Clearly, we did not consider it an [...]
Listen to “Crossing The Line” by Fred Smith One of the most pronounced trends in the non-profit world in the last ten years has been the number of men and women in business [...]
