by Steve Riege | Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
I was spending the afternoon riding in the car with a good friend. This long trip could have been more expedient with a short flight, but my host was a road warrior, and he loved the drive. As we cruised comfortably at 70, I realized he also had an another...
by Steve Riege | Nov 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you are near to my age, or as Florence Dusty might say, a “baker of my generation”, multi-tasking has a distinct meaning. When you hear someone say they are multi-tasking, you think of a list of several “to-do’s” that you focus on today. Or...
by Steve Riege | Oct 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
My Boss is a jerk. I really don’t like my Boss. What gives him the right to treat me this way? She has a bad day and I suffer. Ok, enough already. Do you know that’s what they really say? Do you know they are talking about...
by Steve Riege | Oct 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you are looking for the latest discussion of Napoleon, Nicholas Rostov, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, Natasha Rostov, or Princess Helene, you’ve googled the wrong War and Peace. Tolstoy needed four volumes to tell the of the disastrous 1812...
by Steve Riege | Sep 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
Have you ever experienced the calm before the storm? As I gaze out the window on the train, I can see the purple and black billowing clouds far away in the west. But here, with my world re-sized by headphones and my laptop, there is a peaceful calm,...
by Steve Riege | Sep 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
When I asked Tim what was on his mind, he really opened up. “I love my job. I really do. But there are some things that make it really unbearable. I mean, I’m really good at what I do. Well, that’s what my friends tell me. The...
