India Part II

By Dean Whittaker After the seventeen-hour plane ride over fifteen time zones, life at 40,000 feet finally landed me in the hustle and bustle of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) Airport.  The 1:00 AM arrival followed by the hotel chauffeur rescue at the airport left me...

India Part III

By Dean Whittaker As my memory of my trip to India begins to fade, I was reminded of the essence of the experience when I read the report by Rand titled “Labor and Population” (www.rand.org), in which the authors describe the forces that will shape work in the United...

Time Travel

by Joel Burgess Have you ever considered time travel as an influential tool to promote the economic well-being and livelihood of your community? Before you boo me off the stage, let’s take a moment to entertain the thought. While some may argue time travel to...

MegaChanges

by Joel Burgess It is not our feet that move us along-it is our minds. – Ancient Chinese proverb As we approach Christmas and the harsh Michigan winter, I was thumbing through Charles Swindoll’s aptly named 1985 book, Come Before Winter .and Share my Hope....

Happy Place, USA

by Joel Burgess Adrian White, a psychologist from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, recently produced the first ever world map of happiness. This interesting survey attempts to determine what happiness consists of, and more importantly, who has it?...