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• December 26, 2025

  On Dealing with a World Gone Crazy

  ​There’s a story, which may or may not be true, that an old Chinese curse was “May your children be born in interesting times.” The curse was because, goes the story, the yearly chronicles included things like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, peasant rebellions, invasions, plagues and so on. So it meant that may your children suffer disaster.  ​We live in…
• August 16, 2021

  Batching It

  Batching It When I was a small boy, I spent a couple of months every summer with my mother’s parents, in rural Bath County, Virginia. My grandfather was editor of the county’s weekly newspaper, the Bath County Enterprise. My grandmother was a teacher, and had summers off. She had dropped out of college many years…
• August 15, 2021

  Hello World

  It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. Topics for the week Being a Mutt___History Batching It____Assorted Memories Deep knowledge,everyday.Like,comment and follow : Greg’s Business History.Happy Reading.Thanks
• May 13, 2021

  Maroon Communities

  Most people know the word “maroon” as a color, a dark shade of red, something like the color burgundy. Other people know that the word ‘maroon’ is a verb, meaning to put someone ashore on a deserted island, where there is little hope of escape—Alexander Selkirk, the real person behind the fictional character ‘Robinson Crusoe’…
• November 16, 2020

  Hello World

  I am posting again… Today’s Topics Moving Panorama ….HISTORY STORIES Mithridates VI, the Poison King…..HISTORY STORIES Mammoth Ivory…NATURE Beauty Can Grow in Unexpected Places…..ASSORTED MEMORIES Deep knowledge,and happy reading.Like,comment and follow : Greg’s Business History.