I’ve often told budding entrepreneurs that success in business is a path laid with bricks of failure. You must train yourself to see each failure as one more hurdle you’ve overcome to get closer to your success. Failure has incredible value. “I’ve made every mistake in the book,” is a common phrase you will hear […]

My mom has been dead for a couple years now. I still haven’t really clearly understood the emotions of that experience. It’s like a punch to your spirit, I guess. Like an emotional flu. It’s not anguish. It’s more like a depletion. Like someone cut a limb off. I bring it up because the emotions […]

Last night I was berated by Akron City Councilman Mike Freeman at the weekly city council meeting. You can see his lecture to me here: https://youtu.be/JV2-4vDxMp0?t=4140 (you have to click on the link because they won’t allow us to embed the video on our site. It will take you directly to his speech.) This dressing […]

These are the official numbers from the City of Akron’s project to house all our homeless people at our tent village: 23 Housed 8 Self-Resolved – these people disappeared. 14 Not Housed This is those numbers visually: These are not inconsequential numbers. 31% of our people are currently not housed. Another 18% have just disappeared. […]

Sometimes I think we forget the country in which we live. A group of Americans once wrote: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That is the […]

He was shocked out of a deep sleep with her screaming at the tops of her lungs. It was early morning and still pitch dark. As his eyes slowly focused he could see her holding a golf club over his head. He was about to be teed up as the first hole in an early […]

One of the reasons I’ve been exploring my own personal spirituality is to help keep my anger from welling up. I’m always looking for the faith, love and hope path. But as we get closer to you closing down our shelter it becomes more and more difficult to keep my anger and frustration tamped down. […]

Our marketing agency was at its peak around 2008. We had about 25 employees. We’d do the things all flush with cash tech companies would do. We took limos to other states to go gambling. Every new employee would be asked what their favorite drink was and we would supply it free of charge. We […]