The Holidays have always brought out the worst in people. The out of control commercialism and intolerance permeates the air as much as pine needles and egg nog. Family traditions like trimming the tree and caroling are joined by new activities like alcoholism and spousal abuse. We kill ourselves year after year after year to … Continue reading The Holiday Doc is in session.

It's a pretty powerful word. A very powerful idea. Dictionary. Com has this to say.... a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit. And all the descendants of a common ancestor. I'll start with the second one because this hits on generational wealth. GW is a very hot … Continue reading Family

A great man had a dream once. And if I ever get high with dead psychics I will have them let Dr. Martin Luther The King know we are still moving towards the mountain top. It's a difficult road the closer we get to the top. The opposition has left traps and snares. The road … Continue reading Dream

One of my favorite things is to find the unintended, unthought of and/or unwanted results of an action or whatever. That way you can't get caught off guard. A long while back in the early days of the new melinium I wrote an essay on the other things, besides not wasting billions of We the … Continue reading Law of Unintended Consequences or “We didn’t think this through very far. Did we? At least we meant well.

People who come to work every day. On time every day. With their A game. Everyday.

So many problems to be solved in this area. Any political bias aside, any cop who at this point in time continues to be extra with black folks should be terminated. Immediately, if not sooner. If you as a law enforcement officer who can not process what's going on in our society and make the … Continue reading Law Enforcement Accountability Act. LEAA.

The person who decided public schools would be best served by being funded primarily by Property Tax should be shot. Many many times for many many reasons. When I found this out, I couldn't believe it. It's so obvious what would happen. Poor hoods = poor schools. Duh. Whoever designed this could not have been … Continue reading Universal Minimum Funding – Education Edition

There are no normal holidays, Wyatt. There are just The Holidays, you celebrate them!So go grab that person you love and celebrate them with all your heart. Wise words possibly said by Doc Holiday, in my Magic Nation. With a name like that he should know

When creating a new menu first you have to select what you want to serve. Does it fit the overall theme? Is the recipe confusing for your cooks? Can it be consistently done right? By any of the cooks? After you have finalized the items, recipes and procedures. It's time to get some taste testing … Continue reading I’d like to welcome my taste testers.

And what is painfully obvious to me. Is probably not as painfully obvious to someone else. It hit me one day in the kitchen. I was training a new cook. He just wasn't getting it. It was such and easy recipe. For someone with my experience and knowledge. Of course! His journey through the culinary … Continue reading Everybody isn’t me.