Last week, in the daily email from Amazon with book deals, was the first self-improvement book I ever bought. The Greatest Salesman in the World was written by Og Mandino. It was published in 1968, and I guess I bought it in the early part of the 70s. Og Mandino was,...

The old lodge room smelled faintly of oil and dust. Candles flickered in their sconces, and faint beams of moonlight drifted through the high windows like forgotten prayers. A few aging Brothers moved quietly around the room, straightening columns, polishing the...

John Grogan chuckled at the comments he received when he came to work wearing a suit and tie. The IT company he worked for had long ago adopted a casual dress code so anyone wearing clothes that gave the appearance of “dressing up” brought good-natured kidding. John...

Watching a recently posted Masonic YouTube video led me to write the following. Sorry if it is somewhat academic, but the subject matter is relevant if you are looking for answers to why you might find it difficult to attract men to join your lodge and Masonry. Why...

  I have followed the Gallup organization’s annual employee engagement survey for several years. Gallup says, “This survey measures the involvement and enthusiasm of employees in both their work and workplace.” So, the happier and more fulfilled the employees...

Last week my wife showed me a short video of a football coach reading an inspirational poem to his team and that poem was penned by Brother Edgar Albert Guest. Brother Guest moved from England in 1891 with his family to Detroit, Michigan, where he lived until he died....

On the left is Most Worshipful Brother Carter's pin. It has a unique design and has some meaningful symbolism. Click on the pin to understand the meaning behind the design.The newly installed Grand Master of Ohio. William M. Carter, III, has adopted the words Be...

One of my purposes for continuing to write 365aMason is to make all Masons aware that unless we display, by our actions, our values to others, then we have failed to promote the fraternity in a way that preserves its reputation, honor, and welfare. This Thursday,...

I recently watched the movie First Man, about Neil Armstrong and the United States' achievement of landing men on the moon and safely returning them to Earth. This movie reminded me of the tremendous effort undertaken to meet the challenge President John F. Kennedy...

Paideia (pi-daya) is the classical Greek system of education and training, which came to include gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, poetry, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, astronomy and the physical sciences, history of society and ethics, and philosophy....