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This is my January 2020 column for the Kitsap Business Journal and Kitsap Sun. I'm celebrating 10 years as a monthly columnist. In fact. my first column was January of 2010! Many thanks to the Kitsap Sun for a great relationship. On to the next 10 years! Welcome to...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKv1hwR8AK0&w=560&h=315] In just a couple of days, we will pass into a brand new decade. While some may say it’s just another year, we humans have made a custom of dividing out these ten-year increments for...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M67iuG1N6L4&w=560&h=315] A funny thing happened when I went to write my holiday special today. I found last week's Extra Points sitting in a draft status. Because I was at a client's location in Montana, I realize now...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWwcOHm5mZ8&w=560&h=315]   This past weekend, I traveled to Victoria, BC to meet with fellow Rotarians in my Rotary district to interview high school students put forward by clubs for an exchange program. The students...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6BqJkPk5RM&w=560&h=315] This past weekend in college football was Rivalry Week. In essence, it’s that weekend when arch rivals clash and fan bases get crazy. Sometimes, too crazy. I follow Twitter to keep track of all...

  Re-printed from 2018...Happy Thanksgiving! Being Thankful. It’s pretty easy to immediately think of the things I’m thankful for every Thanksgiving. My beautiful wife of 32 (now 33) years; my children that have grown into wonderful adults (and I include my...

As I turned in my final Kitsap Sun column for 2019, it dawned on me that this would be a perfect time to enlist ideas from my community for me editorial calendar for a new year and decade. As I begin plotting my topics for 2020, you can help me. What topics would you...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dudMBke88H8] I remember my first real television. It was the mid-1970s and this big, brown, boxy Zenith was in the center of the living room. We had exponentially less channels than today; the local affiliates of ABC, NBC, and...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYYuiNZjbUE&w=560&h=315] I'm preempting my normal missive to do something a little different. In past years, I've written on the history and significance to me of this special day. This year, I'd like to honor and...