Tag: Michael Walsh

LEND ME YOUR EARS

If you are in business there are going to be occasions when you have to address an audience. When you are watching someone else speaking at an event it comes across as easy.  In truth standing up in front of an audience and setting one’s stall out can be the most unnerving experience.

WHY DO WOMEN WEEP

WHY DO WOMEN WEEP

She wept again this afternoon,

I’ve no idea why,

A woman who seems happy,

So often needs to cry,

There seems to be no reason,

Her eyes should fill with tears,

Perhaps she’s looking back at life,

Or dreads the coming years?

A WORLD WITHOUT MEN

Sadly, few boys these days have meaningful relationships with male mentors and father figures, men who can teach and inspire them. Some boys grow up without having been taught by a male teacher or are taught by teachers who have no life or work experience outside of a classroom.

Women And Children Last: The Infamous Sinking of La Bourgogne

The sinking of the French ocean liner SS La Bourgogne on the morning of 4 July 1898 was one of the most disgraceful of disasters in maritime history due to the cowardly and criminal behavior of the crew. Instead of the heroic sacrifice that has often been the shining moment in such a terrible tragedy, the crew of the steamer “fought like demons for the few lifeboats and rafts”, drawing out their knives and threatening passengers with it. Out went for a toss “Women and children first!”, famously established by the soldiers of the sinking Birkenhead, half a century earlier, and by the crew of the Titanic fourteen years later. Only one woman passenger from La Bourgogne was saved, and all children perished.