Jim Alkon

1 month ago | independenttribune.com | Jim Alkon

A young girl who loves fairy tales finds out that the bedtime story she was told is more real than she ever thought ... This story features a beautiful princess, a handsome and honest hero, magic and a happy ending. “Anything is possible, my dear, anything is possible. Fairy tales are not made up of thin air. More often than not, a folk tale like this would be based on an ancient legend, which in turn, would have real events at its roots.”Indeed, fairy tales are not made up of thin air.

1 month ago | star-telegram.com | Jim Alkon

A gangster is calmly explaining to a nervous and sweating Hank Fisher that there are two Japans, one a very safe one that most people populate and experience. "But the other Japan is different," Suzuki warns. "It has a different rule book. If you enter this Japan and break the rules, you are not safe."Fisher, an ex-pat journeyman and washed-up Mixed Martial Arts fighter, is an accident waiting to happen.

2 months ago | booktrib.com | Jim Alkon

How Julia Found Happiness and Financial Success by Michael G. Colburn A useful volume for anyone starting a business or others within a business wondering how everything works and why it works. “That’s a lot better method than a dart board.”Words from the young entrepreneur Julia in Michael G.

2 months ago | miamiherald.com | Jim Alkon

As life would have it, even those successful and satisfied in our current world tend to worry obsessively about the next. We’re talking about the fear of death - that journey into the unknown. One common antidote is to joke about it. Take the perpetual death-worrier, Woody Allen, whose character Boris from his movie “Love and Death” returns from the dead. When asked what it’s like, he says, “You know the chicken at Trevski’s? It’s worse!”Woody is not alone.

2 months ago | mahoningmatters.com | Jim Alkon

As life would have it, even those successful and satisfied in our current world tend to worry obsessively about the next. We're talking about the fear of death - that journey into the unknown. One common antidote is to joke about it. Take the perpetual death-worrier, Woody Allen, whose character Boris from his movie "Love and Death" returns from the dead. When asked what it's like, he says, "You know the chicken at Trevski's? It's worse!"Woody is not alone.