by Joe Garrison | Nov 22, 2024 | Politics, Words with Joe Garrison
Logic doesn’t sell. It doesn’t matter if it’s kids’ toys, business services, financial planning, or political races. No matter how logical we think we are, people don’t make decisions based on logic alone. More often than not, we make decisions based on...
by Joe Garrison | Nov 19, 2024 | Community, Politics, Words with Joe Garrison
We don’t like to admit it, but humans are complex creatures. More often than not, we have mixed motivations. In an episode of the iconic sitcom, “Friends,” Phoebe tries in vain to prove to Joey that there is such a thing as a selfless good deed. Phoebe goes as far as...
by Joe Garrison | Nov 12, 2024 | Community, Politics, Words with Joe Garrison
The phrase “all politics is local” has been around since the 1930s, as far as we can tell. For most of a century, it highlighted the need for politicians to be focused on local issues and to build relationships on the local level to win office. In the last few years,...
by Joe Garrison | Sep 30, 2024 | Anxiety, Words with Joe Garrison
PSA: If you get pissed off and accidentally throw your iPhone across the room, it will shatter into a million pieces. Friday morning, in the torrential downpour caused by the remnants of Hurricane Helene, I trekked to the Verizon Wireless store down the street to...
by Joe Garrison | Sep 25, 2024 | Christianity, Politics, Words with Joe Garrison
“Separation of Church and State.” We’ve all heard those words throughout most of our lives. Maybe you heard them in a middle school or high school US History class? But what do they really mean? Like most things, they have a different meaning to different...
