If you’re reaching out to officials in your town, or county, I sure hope they’re responding to your phone calls, or emails…
Author: Harvey Radin
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.
HMPRESENTLY: Imagine, Knowing Where Your Tax Dollars are Going
Are your hard-earned tax dollars paying for something on a Navy ship? Bits of a bridge? A highway? Are they paying for pothole repairs on roads?
HMPRESENTLY: Be Thankful You’re Not Florida
Life in Florida was so much simpler, decades ago, roasting in sunshine on warm, sandy beaches. Avoiding a painful sting from a Portuguese man o’ war…
HMPRESENTLY: When Tendrils Spiral Around Good Intentions
I’ll be wondering, now, whether the Foundation is influencing some of the news coverage and commentary I’ve been reading…
HMPRESENTLY: Snapped Up
That’s been the way of things, lately, with homes selling in an instant. With people shopping for homes, racing to outbid others…
HMPRESENTLY: Given a Choice of Nations…
In warfare, there are atrocities, and I’m now realizing there are atrocities in communication, as well…
HMPRESENTLY: Captains & the Kings
What a waste! … my father must have been thinking, while he was thinking some other things, I’m sure, about the person in charge…
HMPRESENTLY: The One and Only Poem I’ve Ever Written
The thing about poems, I remember from school, is their meaning, often, is open to interpretation. Someone interprets them one way. Someone else interprets them in other ways, entirely…
HMPRESENTLY: Pitch Perfect?
What Aeschylus had to say about truth, for some reason got me thinking about eternal vigilance being the price of liberty…
HMPRESENTLY: Repetitive Ads… Along With Breaking News
And there’s an ad about a product that, apparently, can sharpen a mature individual’s mind. And, sure enough, mature folks do seem to be as sharp as tacks, in the ad…
HMPRESENTLY: Stopping Those Rocks, and Such… Takes a Lot of Grit
It does take a lot to be heard, and to alter the course of things…
HMPRESENTLY: ‘A Harmonious Effect’
About that problem on the planet he’d mentioned, and his hopes for the future…
HMPRESENTLY: Owies… and the Fog and Folly of War
But soldiers are supposed to be tough, you know…
HMPRESENTLY: Love in a Sometimes Opprobrious World
One thing that isn’t getting stigmatized, right around Valentine’s Day, is candy…
HMPRESENTLY: So Stimulating!
Those old downtown buildings… I’d just stand there, gazing at them, totally transfixed. They were so svelte…
HMPRESENTLY: Groupthink… and Groupdo, too?
Even in social media, focusing on business, and on business people, and people seeking to have some role in business, there’s groupthink…
HMPRESENTLY: Pulling Nails Out of Walls
To be fair to downtown LA, there’s also some interesting architecture out there nowadays, but this was years ago when the comedian was poking fun at LA’s downtown area…
HMPRESENTLY: All Jargoned Out?
How many times, do you suppose, would you have to click down on a tally counter, to count the number of times someone is saying the word ‘disgraceful?’
HMPRESENTLY: Getting Pelted and Belted by… Beliefs?
When religions imbue people with goodness, hope and love, that’s something to be thankful for…