pride

It was worth waiting for…

It is really human nature to maintain a bit of pride in one’s work or status. We are taught from a young age to be proud of what we do, but to do so without discounting the works of others. I have witnessed first-hand growing up in a small rural town what happens when the [...]

Jackson Baker notes some striking similarities between Tennessee’s junior Senator and the GOP’s Presidential nominee:

The other evening, my nephew challenged me to a game of Memory.

As I am in the habit of doing, I stole this idea from someone (this time it happens to be Chris over at Arrowhead Pride (who, incidentally, stole it from someone else)).  The question before us is Why are you a Tennessee Titans fan?

With everything that’s been going on with the city hall here in La Vergne Tn, I am beginning to wonder if our city officals have any pride? I know that some of the top officals and supervisors don’t even live in our city. Are they embarrassed by our city that they have to live elsewhere? [...]

My last post looked at a bootstrap culture as I have been writing about it for my new textbook on bootstrapping. There are four steps that can be taken to help build and maintain a bootstrap culture as the business grows. The first of these steps is recruiting for a Bootstrap Culture:

Flag Day June 14th

Fly the Flag with Pride this Summer - VFW
Flag Etiquette
The federal flag code says the universal custom is to display the U.S. flag from sunrise to sunset on buildings and stationary flagstaffs in the open, but when a patriotic effect is desired the flag may be displayed 24-hours a day if [...]

I am all kinds of broken up watching the coverage of (American journalist) Tim Russert's death, I'm not even sure why.

One reason, is that I simply cannot imagine what it's like for these NBC people to have to immediately begin national television coverage of your friend's death right after it happened in front of you.

Dear Pastor Osteen,