Entrepreneurship is about finding an idea or concept you are passionate about and acting on it to make the dream a reality. Freedom, flexibility, and doing what you enjoy are desires people seek, yet might not have with their current position…
For the past few years I have been preaching that it’s the business not the customers who determine whether you will have a profitable Christmas shopping season. If you are hearing this prognostication for the first time you might think I’m a…
I usually don’t include numbers for the sale of condominiums in the area, but this month I thought it noteworthy that condo sales increased dramatically this year. 164 condos sold during the time period of January 1st through October 1st of 2011…
What is truth? What is your truth? Truth is saying what you know to be true for you, not based on beliefs, or what someone else said, it’s not based on fear of being judged or a need for control, it is Truth. It is truth about how you feel, truth…
This month we took a road trip to a really fun brewery, the Red Lodge Ales Brewing Company in Red Lodge. The taproom opens at 11am and since it’s a two hour drive from Bozeman, we left at 9am, which meant getting up at 7:30 on a Saturday. We wanted…
Montana’s voters will for the first time in ten years vote on a law enacted by the Montana State Legislature. I-124, also known as the “repeal” of SB 423, will be on the ballot in November 2012.
SB 423 passed the legislature in the waning…
I’ve never been caught in an avalanche. And luckily I’ve never had to dig anyone out. But I’ve known several people who have taken the unsolicited ride on a slab avalanche. One tragically lost his life. Living in a town like…
Jack Thorsen
I have been right and people on my blog are calling me Jackie the Greek. Maybe they are right. I have been right with my Cats pick five weeks in a row. I think the Bobcats will go undefeated in the Big Sky this year and go all the way to the NCAA Div…
Ouch. I was stepping out of my friend Scott’s big truck near the Mother Lode Theater in Butte to hear John Prine and something twisted in my left knee, something that should not be twisting. Yikes. It hurt and I started limping. Sitting in the…
The distinctive style of Q. Miller Jewelry makes it unique and identifiable no matter where you see it. And you can see it coast-to-coast, since Marcia Miller and her daughter and co-owner, Callie, travel to about 30 retail and wholesale shows during…
