Category Archives: Writing & Social Commentary

Getting Half Way Up The Mountain

Suddenly, my legs stopped working. A moment later, painful cramping. I couldn’t move. Not one [...]

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Music Store Clerk

It must have been around 1910 when sixteen year-old Baby Dodds got tired of banging [...]

The John Rose Farewell

Setting in time and place  The date was September 10, 1953. I was in the [...]

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Jazz, Rock and Roll, and the Revolution in Psychotherapy, 1950-1975

Background-Why now?  Writing this dissertation was one of the highlights of my life, a real [...]

PowerSpeaking Book

Introduction  From passion to technology, from soul to strategy’it’s all here. In PowerSpeaking© : How [...]

So long, Rick

“So long, Rick” by Rick Gilbert Snot was running down her face. My mother’s eyes [...]

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Speaking Up

Speaking Up: Surviving Executive Presentations by Rick Gilbert   You are a smart, high-potential middle [...]

I Have a Dream

“I Have a Dream” was The Greatest Improv in the History of Speech Communication Martin Luther [...]

Don’s Final Barbershop Song

  Dear friend Don Schaller was just a few days from death. Don had been [...]

Don’s memorial

  Saying Good-bye Saying good-bye to you Don is saying good-bye to a lingering sigh. [...]

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ADELE SCHEELE INTERVIEW

Interview with Adele Scheele, author of Skills for Success   Imagine you are in a [...]

Storytelling

Good Storytelling Storytelling is hot. Management and leadership books abound with advice about how leaders [...]

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Blood on the marble floor

In my 40 year career as a speech coach and trainer, I’ve heard 100,000 speeches. [...]

A Bridge to the 21st. Century

The new east span of the Bay Bridge After watching this bridge take shape for [...]

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What CEOs and Robert Redford have in common

In the world of entertainment, Robert Redford is truly a “Big Dog.” About as big [...]

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