Private investigator contact

On Saturday, I received a call from a private investigator in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, I was not at home and the message he left was garbled in places and I did not get the phone number to return the call. So, “John,” I’d be happy to speak with...

Deadly Habits vs Caring Habits

Honoring a request from one of my readers, here are all seven of Dr. William Glasser’s Deadly Habits with corresponding Caring Habits. Remember, a major axiom of his Choice Theory is that the only person whose behavior we can control is our own. In a previous...

Guilty by external control?

Years ago, I attended a seminar led by the brilliant Dr. William Glasser. His philosophy of “Choice Theory”  affected my outlook on education dramatically and I’ve been thinking lately that it likely might help our understanding of what happened to...

Murder Scenario # 1-An Update

I extend my apologies for the passage of time between blogs-life sometimes gets in the way, especially around this busy season! In previous postings, I’ve mentioned that, barring any stunning new developments such as an arrest of the murderer of Stacey Burns, I...

Close but no cigar! Tucson Festival of Books

Here’s a quote from an e-mail I received from the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. “Congratulations on being chosen as a semi-finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards competition. We received over 550 submissions, and the...

Four with motive, means and opportunity!

Perhaps it is the busyness of the season but I was certain that when I mentioned in a blog (which I boosted to a wider readership) that I could write four scenarios, each one containing a different suspect in the murder of Stacey Burns and each with motive, means and...