“What was your biggest challenge?”

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Just now coming up on the one year mark of being unemployed, and having gone to about a dozen different interviews now, one of the most common questions I hear is “What was your biggest challenge,” or “Describe a time when you had a particularly difficult challenge and how you resolved it.” In order as [...]

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Parable for Today, The Battle of Dorking

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Dorkingwith it’s joke of a name to modern American ears, is a town about 25 miles south of London, England. It started as a Roman Staging post somewhere between 60 and 70AD, and very possibly even earlier. In 1871 Sir George Tomkyns Chesney wrote “The Battle of Dorking,” a short story depicting a successful invasion [...]

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