Confidence & Freedom

Play In Your Sweet Spot

Thumbnail image for Play In Your Sweet Spot by Michael Katz February 3, 2012

You’ll get a kick out of this. About once a month, I receive a phone call from someone in the food services industry – usually the owner of a restaurant – who wants to know if I can come over and fix a malfunctioning piece of equipment. It’s typically regarding a broken oven, but I’ve [...]

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Embrace Your Inner Springsteen

Thumbnail image for Embrace Your Inner Springsteen by Michael Katz December 2, 2011

My son Evan is a freshman this year at Rhodes College in Memphis. (School motto: We’ve never heard of you either.) For me, having a child in college is turning out to be a déjà vu-ish experience: It seems that the older my kids get, the more vivid are my own memories of having lived [...]

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Singing In The Rain

Thumbnail image for Singing In The Rain by Michael Katz October 14, 2011

It was raining yesterday morning when I left the house to go running. Not sort of raining, either. I’m talking full out, full blown, Cecil B. DeMille* raining. The kind where you drive your kids to the bus stop even though it’s directly across the street. The kind where you hesitate at the door of [...]

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