Posted January 9, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 9 January 2020 At one time, handbaskets were common. Briefcases (cases originally designed to hold legal briefs) have basically replaced them other than for the use of the term, “going to hell in a handbasket.” Both handbaskets and briefcases are small and relatively easy to carry.
The saying about going to hell in a “handbasket,” implied a quick […]
Posted April 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 April 2019 Debra’s opening quotation is from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a novel in which the “pigs” get fat and prosperous and the “horses” are worked to death. In the novel, “pigs” and “horses” are metaphors for “capitalists” and “workers.” Animal Farm, an extended allegory, was written and published in 1946. In general, those were “dark days,” […]
Posted March 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 March 2019 I’m an old-fashioned guy, and I believe in words—verbal communication. I had read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick twice by the time I was out of high school. I’m also the only guy I know not some-kind of minister who has read the Bible twice. I read it once out of curiosity while I was still […]
Posted February 27, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 27 February 2015 Richard Bandler described what has become known as “The Fast Phobia Cure” in his 1985 book, Using Your Brain for a Change. It is my favorite NLP technique because it is quick, easy for both practitioner and client, and effective. If that were the only technique you knew, you could help all your friends and […]
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