Otto Kroeger was born on April 15. The founding partner of OKA died in 2013, but his memory is constant for the many thousands who knew him, and his fingerprints are all over not just OKA, but the field he helped to shape. The following is a remembrance of this man I so dearly miss. Otto the
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The economy is great and getting better; the economy is weak and getting worse. My political leaders are heroically voicing my concerns and correcting the nation’s course; my political leaders are a corrupt and incompetent embarrassment on the world stage. The coasts of the United States are
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Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper earned over $100 million in its opening weekend, making it the biggest hit of Eastwood’s storied career. People flocked to see this movie, many driven by the bitter controversy the war movie has stirred up. While some object to the movie as a glorification of both
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OKA Resilience Series #4 Does your story have a happy ending--will you let it? If resilience is the ability to bounce back, to endure and/or to come through difficult times better off for the struggle, that means that there is a happy ending to the story, or at least to that chapter of
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OKA Resilience Series #2 I trudge on through a haze—the grind of my daily life stretching out before me. Danger and threat are constant—at times a low-grade buzz and other times pointed and urgent. Everything looks like it always has—buildings, roads, cars—nothing has changed, yet everything is