I know being cynical is bad for me. I’m sure it’s even worse for my health than all the arsenic in my rice. It’s probably killing me slowly and softly, as its tentacles snake into my...
Investing in distraction
By
Gary Tetz
Dec 20, 2012
I’m concerned that some nursing home administrators don’t seem to have enough to do. You would think that with survey and census and deer crashing through windows, they’d be able to keep...
Memory tricks
By
Gary Tetz
Dec 05, 2012
I’m a little mad at Jim Berklan right now. The usually trustworthy and compassionate editor of the McKnight’s fine family of publications pulled the old bait-and-switch on me this morning....
Meditation management
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 21, 2012
I start each day with half an hour of meditation. I find it gives me something to fail at first thing in the morning, which helps avoid dangerous surges in self-confidence.
Election log: Time for Change—or just a time change?
By
Gary Tetz
Nov 07, 2012
Dear Diary: Tuesday’s election raises so many questions, including: Will Obomneycare live or die? Will the anger, polarization and poor spelling that rears its head sometimes in comments after McKnight’s...
No rockets’ red (or blue) glare
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 29, 2012
Like sitting in a tub of hot cocoa on the shore of an enchanted mountain lake while listening to a choir of violin-wielding angels. That’s about how it felt to spend some quality time last week at...
Joe’s teeth
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 12, 2012
Paul Ryan’s big, sad eyes were mesmerizing, I’ll admit, but were nothing compared with Joe Biden’s teeth. They were gleaming, Clorox white. Whiter than the White Cliffs of Dover, my Canadian...
You ‘Like’ me!
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 01, 2012
It’s not necessarily a bad thing, or a good one either — kind of like Rice-A-Roni or the music of Yanni. But instant customer feedback, and the expectation of immediate response and action is where...
Presidential caregivers
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 13, 2012
I won’t know what to think about polls until I find out how other Americans feel about them. Until then, put me down as undecided. But, seriously, here’s one that intrigues me, because it actually...
Thank you for not yolking
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 20, 2012
I had a newspaper in one hand and an Egg McMuffin in the other when I got the news, and I dropped them both like they were deadly poison. Canadian researchers have apparently determined that eating an...