All Posts Tagged With: "Culture"
Polite Manners With Name Prefixes
How do you address others? How are we supposed to address others? The internet serves to mix cultures and polite manners. My internet friend in San Francisco calls me Mr. Tone. I call her Ann – thinking by so doing I would subtly give her permission to call me Ohg. She figured me out and [...]
12Jun2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
The Changing Face of Etiquette
As we, our culture, are catered to by technology and the marketing machine, we begin to feel more entitled to the things that we consume and the benefits of our service industry. The idea of serving others is lost on those who become complacent with being served themselves.
20Jan2009 | bryan | 0 comments | Continued
The Internet: From Organized Reporting to Organic Journalism
On the internet, articles are typically written and distributed by persons rather than organizations, Organizations tend to be intimately involved with issues, where people tend to be intimately involved with other people. Some think that this devalues the articles or the authors online, but one cannot deny that internet material is typically apologetically about the [...]
6Dec2008 | bryan | 1 comment | Continued
Wicked: A marriage of literature, art, and music
We marvel att the marriage of art and technology and the ingenuity of those who can master that integration. Steve Jobs and his folks at Apple are prime examples. In the same vein, there is a marriage of literature, art, and culture that can culminate in the same kind of experience. Probably the best example [...]
14Oct2008 | bryan | 0 comments | Continued
An Intro to the American Coffee House
From the truck stop burners to the gourmet air pots of the local coffee shop to the drive through of the Starbucks on the way to work, coffee dispensing has become more American than preemptive strikes.
Coffee has been around. It is nothing new, really. It is not even a product of American culture. In fact, [...]
5 things to do with your stimulus check
Dad,
We are in the midst of an economic stimulus program that promises to deliver some pretty big checks to American consumers. This program, however, is not going to be a fix, it is going to be a band-aid. The problems that we aer having are not founded in a lack of spending by our society. [...]
Pandemics: Colds, The Flu, and Individualism
Dad,
The cold and flu season is in full swing, and my family and I are in the thick of it. My daughter has ear infections in both ears, I have a sinus infection, my son is coughing and sniffling, and my wife is congested but is limited in the medicines she can take because she [...]
Race is perception – why it matters in politics
Son,
I am a baby boomer – that generation of people that outnumber the rest of you folks. We grew up with civil rights and anti-war protesting and counter culture movements. Today we are skeptical about those who wish to claim the mantle of leadership for cultural change. Race is always important.
We loved Martin Luther King, [...]
Workplace Etiquette
Son,
The last fifty years has seen a great economic shift in this country. Many of our factories have moved to China. Technology has proliferated, creating new jobs in the white collar world. The service industry is expanding, creating jobs. All of this translates into a fundamentally different culture for many American workers. A culture that [...]
Obama Rising
Son,
Success is often dependent on understanding environment, on understanding culture, being willing to take a chance, and having a little patience. Success requires paying attention and being nurturing. Success requires purposeful deliberation. Barack Obama has these qualities.
A good chef knows that his product is dependent on all of these qualities. So does a politician. Baking [...]
Old Dogs and Progress
Son,
Your sister had a dog, Sadie. Sadie is half schnauzer and half cocker spaniel. A pain in the ass combination. At 14 pounds that dog thought she was the boss of the world. She had springs for legs and was always jumping around, growling and barking at something – she had the disposition of a [...]
Of Mental Illness, church, and family
Son
I wrote recently about depression. Meriwether Lewis was my inspiration – a man of undaunted courage who also suffered from depression. As noted, my case is mild, requiring a daily mental and physical discipline to keep all systems balanced. The discipline also requires staying connected socially. After all, at our primitive core, we are social [...]
A letter from Barack Obama…
Dad,
I just got this letter from the Obama campaign. I want to share it because it represents why I will vote for him. I believe him.
Bryan.
______
Dear Bryan,
Six years ago, on a bright and beautiful Tuesday morning, a new kind of enemy came to America’s shores.
We will never forget the images of that terrible day — [...]
Same turkey, different flavors
Son,
As you are well aware, I like to bake a turkey. Not so much the turkey – but the turkey dinner experience. When I bake a whole turkey I like to prepare my favorite oyster dressing ( my own recipe.) While the turkey cooks I like to make my own bread (I have developed my [...]
responsible turkeys?
Dad,
I am baking a turkey for dinner. Its a lot of work. Do you think that. accounting for the amount of work and the weight of the bones and stuff, that it is a better deal to buy a turkey at a dollar a pound than to buy, say, boneless skinless meats that are more [...]
Mistakes in parenting
Son,
I feel a little embarrassed about giving advice on parenting. Your mother and I were talking last week and we both felt that our children turned out pretty well – in spite of us.
I talk today about acting out of love – but that was not really my style. I was a parent in much [...]
Protecting children from themselves.
Son,
Parenting is difficult. Your sister was in the Rainbow Honors Program in elementary school. When she was preparing for middle school she told me that she no longer wanted to be in the honors program. I asked, “Why not.”
“Well”, she said in her 12 year old wisdom, “I don’t have enough time to talk on [...]
Dump Joe Cannon as editor of the Deseret News over Pedophile Cover Up! 
I can't believe McDonald's is trying to sell "gourmet" coffee. Who the hell is going to go to a cheap ...
Why don't they do an All Star season with all the past winners. 
James Spader would be great!! I LOVE him. ANd Tim McGraw. MMMMMMMMMMMMM 
White is 'almost' the best because one cannot be the best until the sport is more than four Olympics old. 
Interesting post.
My experience with 12-step programs is that it's been more about finding the ways that you are already motivating ...
I'm moving from Central Texas back to my family homestead in southeastern Oklahoma.
The very least you could have ...