Chasing Hamburgers
My Grandfather Ben, Dad’s dad, survived the horrors of the Holocaust, as well as the endless heat and mini-malls of…
Speaking Disasters and Lessons Learned
Scott Bekun is writing a book for O’Reilly Media, due out in October, called Confessions of a Public Speaker. He’s…
Someone’s Always Listening
I was working for a tech company that will go unnamed a few years ago, and I had a bad day. A really bad day. So that night, I went out to a favorite restaurant with a couple of friends and got a bottle of wine.
Tamed By the Beast
A snowmobile is basically the biggest, meanest chainsaw you’ve ever seen, with two skis bolted to the front and a…
Regina Powazek 1919-2008
Regina Powazek is my father’s mother. She was born in Dobre, Poland, in 1919. When she was 20, the nazis…