Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Philadelphia, PA…Philadelphia, PA…Poor Richard’s Wisdom from 1736 continues Ben’s soft sell of the budding American Dream. Common Sense, Hard Work & a bit of Humor, Enjoy:) Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination […]
Philadelphia, PA…Poor Richard’s Wisdom from 1735 still echos down through the ages and in the ethos of that is the American Spirit. Early to Bed & Early to Rise, A Little House Well Filled & much, much more…enjoy. There is even a subtle jab at Kings. Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t […]
Philadelphia, PA…Somewhere along the line we have lost the core mission for our country. At 250 years of age a bit of reflection is long overdue. According to many studies we reached peak happiness in 1957. As we move further away from an analog world we are not happier, healthier & wealthier. If our goal […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Arnold, CA…We originally posted this for Father’s Day in 2006. My father would turn 110 this year if he were here today. This poem was my father’s favorite. This one is dedicated to my Father…Jay S. Hamilton. Dad was born in November 22, 1916 and died in May 1, 1991 of a Glioblastoma brain tumor. […]
Edinburgh, Scotland…Adam Smith 16 June, 1723 – 17 July 1790. Author of Wealth of Nations and father of modern economics. “Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by […]
“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frankfort, KY…Daniel Boone November 2, 1734 – September 26, 1820. American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. “Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead” Daniel Boone
Concord, MA…Sometimes a reminder that the posts of apparently wonderful lives of everyone on social media can be a nothing more than a mask to wear in public. A quote from Thoreau is a reminder of that… “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Henry David Thoreau
Montpelier, VA…James Madison, March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the […]
Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]
Philadelphia, PA…Somewhere along the line we have lost the core mission for our country. As we get closer to our 250th Birthday a bit of reflection is long overdue. According to many studies we reached peak happiness in 1957. As we move further away from an analog world we are not happier, healthier & wealthier. […]
Notre Dame, Indiana…Knute Kenneth Rockne March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931, Football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame. The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. Most men, when they think they are […]
Orlando, FL…Louis Leo Holtz, January 6, 1937 – March 4, 2026. Football Head Coach and television analyst. “Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them.” ― Lou Holtz “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ― Lou […]
Mount Vernon, VA…George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799. The first president of the United States and a founding father of our country. “It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” “Be courteous to all, but intimate […]
Los Angeles, CA…Entertainer Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974. “My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.” “I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and […]
Mansfield, MO…Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder, February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957. “So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had […]
London, UK…Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. “The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is […]
Los Angeles, CA…Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004. A Bit of Wisdom from the 40th President. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~ […]
Los Angeles, CA…William Clark Gable, February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960. The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He’s got to have some inner standards worth […]
Philadelphia, PA…A Bit of Wisdom for today from my favorite founding father. Considered the first American by many. He also through his writings and Poor Richard’s Almanac created the uniquely American identity. “He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.” ~ Benjamin Franklin […]
London, UK…George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, 22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824. British poet. Major figures of the Romantic movement. Regarded as being among the greatest British poets. There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and […]
San Juan, Puerto Rico…Karl Wallenda January 21, 1905 – March 22, 1978. High wire artist, founder of The Flying Wallendas. “Life is on the wire, and everything else is just waiting”
Beverly Hills, CA…George Burns January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996. American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television. Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. If you live […]
Arnold, CA…Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine […]
London, UK…John Bunyan, November 28 1628 – 31 August 1688. English writer and nonconformist preacher. Best remembered as the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ― John Bunyan “In prayer it is better to have a heart without words […]
