Author name: Jim Boeglin

If we can believe the newspapers, evening news, and talk shows, misery, poverty, violence, corruption, drugs, abuse, fear, and anger permeate our society. Politicians prefer partisan attack to problem solving; sexual predators are everywhere; religious intolerance has become rampant; the “haves” and the “have-nots” are at war with each other. And yet, in my little […]

The American capitalistic system has spawned a great variety of business ventures. Not all organizationsfollow the same business model. Just like individual people, businesses take on characteristics andvalues (a culture) that make them unique. We all know business organizations and professionals whose sole mission is to “make a pile of money”.A slum landlord would be

America’s Founding Fathers created a liberal, democratic, representative form of government that replaced the traditional authoritarian governing styles of Europe.  This American experiment in governance has lasted well over two centuries.  Since the end of WWII, the American form of democracy has spread and thrived in many other parts of the world, including North America,

Albert Einstein once said: “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” For me, this is such an important message that I may return to it in future blogs. When I was about 12 years old—roughly 67 years ago—my 89-year old grandmother lived with us. I liked her a lot, and

A Letter to the Editor I wrote that was recently published in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022: When a person’s behavior is inconsistent with, or contradictory to, one’s stated beliefs, that person is known as a hypocrite.  For most of human history, hypocritical behavior has been considered shameful.  In the