Blind to Bleeding- 2015 Chubb Insurance was acquired by Ace Insurance. The promise from the incoming CEO was meritocracy. Fact is, he was less than honest. He brought a culture that was damaging and highly destructive to a workforce that was averaging 30 year veterans. I was reminded of a post I had written in […]
The Big Skrabibile
Have you ever considered that you go through your entire life without ever actually seeing yourself? Yes, you can see a reflection and yes, you can mirror that reflection but you never actually see yourself as people outside of you see you. At the very same time, no one but you can see or be […]
From C to See Ya Later
I have been working since I was 11 years old. I had a paper route for the Coop city times at the start of it all. They would drop literal bales of papers for me to cover 3 apartment buildings with 12 apartments on each floor and 30+ floors of drop offs. I would get […]
Thank You for Being Candid
People say to me all the time how much they appreciate my transparency. They thank me for my honesty. They thank me for being open. While I appreciate people recognizing that I am being open, it is difficult to understand why this is a thing. Are we in place now where everyone is lying and […]
What I heard about Poetry ~ I don’t know
I was recently at an event where there was a speaker sharing his personal experience and perspective about how poetry impacted his life and the lives of others. He asked us to look at ourselves in the mirror and find the words both within ourselves and through the words of others experience life. While admittedly, […]