(Akiit.com) I absolutely understand why you didn’t get the new Beyoncé album. *Newsflash, honey* it wasn’t made for you… and I’m going to need you to be cool with that. Now, I found quite a few of the comments in your piece to be highly “inflammatory and agitating.” As a ...
(Akiit.com) Last month, I celebrated the beginning of my 81st year of life. For nearly half that time, I have been writing a nationally syndicated column on many topics generating reader responses that go from supportive to quite ugly. So I thought a column making my vision, values and views ...
(Akiit.com) We’re turning into a world that seems to have a lot less training for the realities of life than before. The up-and-coming generation of millennials shows less awareness of many of the financial realities that will govern and change big parts of their lives. However, they’re not the first ...
(Akiit.com) Fast food, chocolate bars and soft drinks; these are all things that we know should not be in our diet. But what about the things that absolutely should? With so much information out there, it can be tricky to know what is really a superfood, and what just has ...
(Akiit.com) Every day I wear a pair of medallions around my neck with portraits of two of my role models: Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. As a child I read books about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. She and indomitable and eloquent slave woman Sojourner Truth represent countless thousands ...
(Akiit.com) Change (verb): To make the form…of something different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: …to change the course of history. (Dictionary.com) I accept as completely valid that all things will inevitably change – and that change isn’t necessarily bad. Accordingly, I’m pleased ...
(Akiit.com) When I first heard that Prince Rogers Nelson had died, it felt like music died. Again. I have been in an extended season of mourning since the March 22nd death of Malik Izaak Taylor, better known as Phife Dawg, one-fourth of the legendary hip hop group A Tribe Called ...
(Akiit.com) The modern entrepreneur is expected, to a degree, to be able to apply their knowledge and expertise to all kinds of fields. One of those fields that is becoming a place of more interest to businessmen today is the food processing industry. Because of its high volume and marketability, ...
(Akiit.com) Educating employees is essential for business owners who want to take the next step. It’s impossible to improve an organization without first investing in the most valuable people. Considering that, it’s no surprise that company bosses are spending a fortune on training in 2016. However, most of them are ...
(Akiit.com) Let’s look at the political angst over trade deficits. A trade deficit is when people in one country buy more from another country than the other country’s people buy from them. There cannot be a trade deficit in a true economic sense. Let’s examine this. I buy more from ...