My car Franky

“Culture resides in our minds, in the stories we tell ourselves”, so says Peter Senger author of The 5th Discipline.  If that is true, and it resonates with me that it is, then changing culture is about changing the stories we tell ourselves. Let me illustrate. One of the cars I drove was a 1995…

The UP escalator

The down escalator is faster than the up escalator.  That’s the saying of a friend of mine.  The first time I heard him say it, I was caught off guard.  “What was that?  The down escalator?”  He was referring to the ability we have to accumulate debt versus our ability to accumulate savings. Compare your…

Getting ready for ?

When we adopted JR, there was no internet, no YouTube. I wish there had been. I was really busy travelling in those days and was out of the house a great deal. So poor JR did not get much training and of course the truth of the matter is I didn’t get much training to…