Do the Correct Thing When stationed with the U. S. Army in Fairbanks, Alaska, I spent a year with an air cavalry unit. We spent almost every day flying around in UH-IH "Huey" helicopters, the one seen in Vietnam War footage. On one particular mission, we flew from 2,000-foot elevation with a complement of troops and equipment and landed at 7,000-foot elevation on the side of a mountain next to a glacier. Read More The Moment Is Now I sat on a rock, overlooking The Cantwell Glacier in the Alaskan Range. I was 24 years old and just beginning my military career. My boss and I had hiked for two days across two glaciers to this Bureau of Land Management cabin. The small A-frame had been air-lifted here a decade earlier. There was a journal inside, chronicling fascinating stories by cross-country skiers and hikers from the past ten years. Read More We're Better Together Recently I scheduled a trip out to the West coast to visit with a client. My plane was to depart from O'Hare Airport at 9:00 am, arriving in Los Angeles by 11:05 am. My meeting was to begin at 4:00 pm—plenty of slack time in the schedule I thought. My cell phone rang at 6:45 am with a message from Orbitz that my flight had been canceled due to mechanical problems. Read More Pass It On The Bob Marshall Wilderness straddles the Continental Divide in Northwestern Montana. If you find yourself here, you should hike up to Sun Butte for a breathtaking site, miles and miles of beautiful aspen and pine forests. When you climb back down to the river bottom, however, your view will be altogether different. Read More Learn To Fly She was terrified. She looked frantically up and down the aisle, as if contemplating a mad dash to safety. In desperation, she yearned for open space. I shared a seat next to this woman on a recent plane trip to New York and came to understand that she was having a full-blown claustrophobia attack. Read More The Psychology of Money Money talk is tricky business. Like religion and politics, it is a sensitive topic of conversation. You just don’t know who you can trust or how your money will be perceived by others, even close family members. The following story demonstrates. Several years back, my 5th grade daughter asked, “Are we rich?” Read More How Do You Communicate? They say that communication is all about what is “heard” not about what is “said”. Take the following story for instance. A young man, Joe, began dating a nice young lady, Karen. They had been on three dates and everything was progressing nicely. Karen suggested they have dinner at her place one Friday and asked Joe to bring a bottle of wine. Read More Are you a Chief or an Indian? During my 30 plus years in the workforce I have met many memorable people. When I first left the Army and started work at a Fortune 500 company, there were adjustments I had to make in the civilian sector. During my first weeks on the job I met many co-workers and one in particular who to this day sticks out clearly in my memory. Read More The Age of Art and Heart I first learned about the great poets, composers, and painters of the Renaissance period in fifth grade. It was very exciting to learn about these great masters and their beautiful art which has stood the test of time. Then my teacher changed subjects. My school day finished with arithmetic, english, and science. Yet, I found myself daydreaming about the Renaissance period and its emphasis on the arts. Read More Are you a Philanthropist? When posing this question to clients, friends and family members the responses we hear are quite often clouded by the preconceived notion that “philanthropy is for the rich”—the Rockefellers, Morgans, Carnegies and Vanderbilts. Maybe this was true 100 years ago, but not so today. Read More