Tag Archives: gratitude
Celebrate Columbus Day, Honor Columbus
Let’s not forget Columbus. Continue reading
A Fan’s Obligation: 12 Life Lessons From Being a Red Sox Fan
This is not going to be a fun day. Continue reading
Filed under Daily Life, Education, Leadership, Literature, Love, Professions, Religion and Philosophy, Sports
Ethics Quiz: Does The Golden Rule Ever Make You a Sucker?
A son abandoned by his mother has to decide whether to support her in her old age. Should he? Continue reading
Filed under Around the World, Family, Law & Law Enforcement, Love
Labor Day Ethics Dunce: The Muscular Dystrophy Association
The lesson is an old one: don’t allow someone to become essential to your very existence if you are not willing to grant whatever demand, favor or task he might ask in return. The Godfather might ask you to show your gratitude by whacking a rival don; the Devil will surely want your soul. All Jerry Lewis wanted was to stick around until he decided it was time to go. Continue reading
A Tale of Two Heathers
Heather #1: Ethics Hero Heather Elliott, who saw two small boys locked in a car parked outside a Kroger store in Indianapolis. The temperature was in the 90s and climbing, and the boys looked red-faced and hot. One was screaming and crying, and banging at the closed window. Elliott decided to take action, and began to try to find a way to open the car doors.
Then Heather #2 came along… Continue reading
Filed under Ethics Dunces, Ethics Heroes, Etiquette and manners, Family, Law & Law Enforcement
“Twelve Angry Men,” A Million Angry Fools, and the Jury System
The million or more angry fools who are protesting and signing petitions calling for the Anthony verdict to be overturned or for a new trail (and proving that they prefer mob justice to jury trials and have no clue regarding such fine points of our legal system as double jeopardy) are threatening the jury system, which is both a microcosm and bulwark of a participatory democracy. Continue reading
Thanking Dick Williams…Finally
If you are not a baseball fan, or under the age of thirty, you probably never heard of Hall of Fame manager Dick Williams, who died yesterday at the age of 84. I never met Williams myself, but I have been indebted to him for four decades. I never told him the immense difference he made in my life, just by doing his job. Continue reading
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Leadership, Popular Culture, Professions, Sports, Workplace
Ethics Hero: Lincoln School in Spring Valley, Illinois
All around us, every day, are fellow citizens who do the hard, sometimes dirty, always underpaid jobs that make business, commerce, and daily life possible. We thank our soldiers, celebrate our firefighters and salute out teachers, but seldom give a second thought to our janitors, custodians and cleaning staff. Lincoln School could have named its gym after a prominent alumnus, or a local sports hero, or a rich donor. Instead, it used the honor to say to a man who dedicated his entire life to the school. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Daily Life, Education, Ethics Heroes, Professions, U.S. Society, Workplace
