Writing from the Heart with Brian
Think, Laugh, & Cry Each Day
I’m generally not one to run from milestone birthdays or special events. I’ve always loved celebrating my birthday. I couldn’t wait to turn 16 to drive and looked forward well in advance to turning 21 so that I could legally drink. When I passed the 30, 40, and 50 birthday marks, I waved goodbye to... Continue Reading →
Axios HQ, a global management firm, surveyed 540 executives and over a thousand employees earlier this year and estimated that the cost of ineffective business communication annually in the U.S. runs companies more than $2 trillion. The number grows exponentially when you factor in the billions spent each year on business communications training courses with names... Continue Reading →
When my dad was in his early forties, he had a major heart attack that damaged much of his heart. He was lucky to survive the attack and he later needed a quadruple heart bypass. The surgeon took an artery from my father's leg and inserted it in his heart, creating a new path for... Continue Reading →
I'm really confused. If you were able to see me right now, you would see me scratching my head and a look of puzzlement across my face. I look at the numbers and nothing makes sense. I've been looking at my WordPress views and visitor totals for the year and two specific trends make no... Continue Reading →
The pounding outside the house was loud and constant. Workers were digging up the neighborhood updating the fiber optic lines and one worker operating a loud jackhammer (I believe it's called a pneumatic drill in the rest of the world) seemed to be coming from the next room, even though he was far down the... Continue Reading →
When I was a young kid, I was fascinated with record books like The Guinness Book of World Records. My friends and I joked about how we wanted to be famous and own a record. We brainstormed ideas. We came up with a day of doing nothing but jumping jacks or jumping rope. We tried... Continue Reading →
It's that time of year. Students across the country are heading back to school. Of course, it occasionally means another kind of story, a sadder one. It means stories like what happened Tuesday in Ohio, where a student was killed and 23 were injured when their school bus crashed on state Route 41 in German... Continue Reading →
Most of the guys sat in the back of the van. We were on a youth group trip to a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game. On the way to the game, two of the guys talked about ditching the adult chaperones and trying to get served beer. There were a few girls, but most of them... Continue Reading →
When I was a young boy, I was scared of the dark. We lived along a rural lane and I was convinced that ghosts and goblins and other scary things came out to play at night. It didn't help that a large walnut tree right outside my window would creak and saunter back and forth... Continue Reading →
Writing from the Heart with Brian 
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