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In my new role as Corporate Health and Safety Coordinator for Coastal Industrial Services I oversee a staff of three safety techs and one safety manager. Our company provides heavy duty industrial hydro-blasting, tank cleaning, heat exchanger repair and vacuum ...

I don’t know how I dodged the bullet as long as I did, but as a high visibility public servant I escaped public attacks on my character and professional reputation….until New Year’s Eve, when I learned someone had publicly attacked ...

Well, it has been three months since I retired from the public sector fishbowl.  Since I left, lots of folks still on the job ask me two questions:  1. How is the new job going?  and 2. Do you miss ...

Along with many Americans, I wondered what the NRA was going to say yesterday  in response to the Newtown massacre.  In what I thought was a shrewd move, the NRA was unusually quiet this week, including shutting down their social ...

I’m writing this while sitting on the deck of a golf resort, overlooking an uphill tough par 5 hole that I’ve only reached in two one time in the dozen times I’ve tried.  All day long, foursomes of hackers like ...

Ever since I was a kid I religiously read National Geographic Magazine.  My grandparents kept issues dating back to the mid 30’s, and I looked forward to reading these mini-time capsules.  As I got older I added encyclopedias to my ...

I had a sobering discussion with my son last night.  He is 23 years old, works as a part-time firefighter, and also serves as a resident volunteer firefighter.  He is testing everywhere, intent on “winning the lotto”.  I have no ...

I was recently asked to participate in an upcoming rememberance ceremony for 9-11.  Thinking I was going to be asked to make a short speech, I penned the following.  The agenda changed, but my feelings didn’t, so I’m sharing my ...