In 1968-69, Tommy James and the Shondells had four Top Ten songs on the Billboard Charts: Crimson and Clover (#1), Crystal Blue Persuasion (#2), Mony Mony (#3) and Sweet Cherry Wine (#7). Things couldn’t be better, right? Wrong. At a recent concert in Las Vegas, Tommy James revealed the BBC banned his music in 1968, punishing him for pulling out of a scheduled Great Britain concert tour. He cancelled the tour to help Hubert Humphrey campaign for President. Of course, Humphrey

I am not a handyman, let alone a master carpenter. I do have one thing in common with a craftsman though: how I view results. A master carpenter is never satisfied with the finished product, no matter how beautiful it appears or how much praise it earns. Carpenters are constantly reminded of that one blemish or that one mistake they had to fix. No one else even knows it’s there, but any misstep tarnishes a craftsman’s high standards. I feel the same way about my business. Whi

Circle K is pumping out the bananas. This week, I pulled into a station and headed inside (where the company makes its profit, not at the pumps). My mission? Hot coffee and a banana. You’d expect a gas station to sell coffee, but bananas? After opening the door and walking into a two-foot banana display, it’s safe to say Circle K is now in the banana business. That’s a change, and here’s another: a newspaper headline at the cash register proclaimed, “Warehouse space is more v