I’m trying to put a legacy book of essays together for the grandchildren. They said they enjoyed it. —Elmer Everyone has a sign around their neck saying “Make Me Feel Important.” When our Harley Davidson motorcycle club rode to visit Guide Dogs for the Blind in Bradenton, we all sat in a big circle on…

Regardless of how you choose to make a living, conducting business is part of life, and how you conduct your life is even a larger part of how successful you are in business. Simply put, if you want to have a successful business—start with a successful life. I am blessed to have 14-year-old twin grandsons,…

Our dad taught us kindness, giving, and best of all hugging. He was a bear hugger. He owned his own business and treated all of his employees as family. We went to church weekly. We didn’t have much when we were younger but we knew no different and it didn’t seem to matter. Dad was…

Yep, I am a cowboy by choice and I am branded for life—I have worked as a cowboy all over the country—I worked for the rancher or cattleman and still do. I am 72 years old and still a cowboy because I have never owned a cow—when you own cattle you are a rancher or…

As a subscriber to The Epoch Times, I read with interest your published letters from readers offering their advice or experiences to the younger generation. It brought back an incident that I was involved in during basic training, July 1966, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, that may be of interest to your readers. With the…

Learn to know yourself. For myself, I learned that if I worked and took some college classes, one of them would suffer. I took a couple of night classes while working, but didn’t do well because I wanted to work. So I realized that to do justice to them, I had to do one or…

Dear Next Generation, Are you seeking wisdom? An American writer Clarence Budington Kelland (1881-1964) once said, “My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” I was able to profit from watching my father as he lived life. I saw a man who demonstrated creativity. My dad…

Dear next generation, I would like to tell you to not be afraid to strike up a conversation with an older person. I have worked and volunteered with a lot of young adults who are silent when I’m around them. I’ll break the silence by starting a conversation, and then they will suddenly look away…

Dear Next Generation, I am an 81-year-old retired pharmacist. As a pharmacist, I have held many different positions, both within the realm of pharmacy and other fields (e.g., licensed insurance agent, V.P. of pharmacy services for a public company). I helped design the first electronic claims processing system for pharmacy claims and established an electronic…

There is a “woke” belief that once our post-COVID nation completely reopens, the unprecedented opportunity will exist to reinvent the workplace. The argument? The modern work-office environment we have today was created after World War II, by men for men, while the wife handles the duties at home. The “woke” obviously never met my grandmother….