by Gene Sanders | Mar 7, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
I’ve spent most of my professional life as a shipper but I love carriers. Why do I love carriers? Lots of reasons. The best health benefits I’ve ever had at any job paid 100% of the cost of the birth of one of my amazing daughters and my employer was a parcel carrier....
by Gene Sanders | Feb 22, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
Back in the olden days, when I was a counselor at summer camp, Sea Dog and I used to have a little routine whenever someone did something memorably idiotic. We would excuse ourselves from the mess hall while the tables were being cleared, and return just in time for...
by Gene Sanders | Feb 8, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
Heck, I wrote it. You may have heard the United Kingdom and the United States referred to as “two countries divided by a common language”. Even if you haven’t heard it, I believe there is some truth to it. I found myself in a DGSA preparation class with some American...
by Gene Sanders | Jan 25, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
“Hey, Gene”, I was told, “you missed the point on that reverse logistics column you wrote”. Well. A deep breath. No one can learn from their mistakes, if they don’t know what their mistakes are. Heck, if I’ve been learning from every mistake I’ve ever made, I should...
by Gene Sanders | Jan 11, 2016 | From The Porch Swing
Madam, I’m Adam. Oops, I wrote that backward. It should have read madA m’I ,madaM. Oh, wait, if we ignore the punctuation marks and spaces, it still says the same thing! It’s one of those palindromes, meaning it’s the same in either direction. Sort of like the current...
