by mmooney | May 21, 2021 | The Friday Message
I watched a news segment this week that highlighted the life of William Felton Russell. Russell had just been inducted into the NBA Coaches Hall of Fame. Most of us remember him as Bill Russell – an American basketball player with the Boston Celtics. Bill...
by mmooney | May 14, 2021 | The Friday Message
I haven’t mentioned my Uncle Dick for a while, but he returned to mind this week in a circuitous route. As I have mentioned in past messages Dick loved a good joke, most of them were a bit on the bawdy side but he also had a fondness for the shaggy dog story. The...
by mmooney | May 7, 2021 | The Friday Message
I take this new addition to our language personally. A perceptive teenager started using this word back in 2013. It was intended to describe people who “were slightly off trend.” There was no word that described the condition accurately, so she made up the word. ...
by mmooney | Apr 23, 2021 | The Friday Message
It was another excellent morning in Boise, a bit cool and windy but the sun was out. My golf partner, lets call him Frack, and I were walking the front nine at our golf course. On the sixth hole, a longish par five, my ball came to rest about 100 yards from the green...
by mmooney | Apr 16, 2021 | The Friday Message
I have recently had many conversations with my friends and business associates who are fed up, even frightened by the Idaho Legislature. It is one thing to be conservative and fiscally responsible, it is destructive when paranoid, baseless beliefs and actions...
by mmooney | Apr 9, 2021 | The Friday Message
I wrote two Friday messages on Thursday night this week. This is the second version. The first was a focus on the frightening rhetoric and law being proposed and in some cases passed by the Idaho legislature. I hope you will take the time to review the...
