Recycle vs Sustainable
When I was growing up we “recycled”. Today Arkansas’ FlagandBanner.com is practicing “sustainable growth”. Whatever you call it I like it and we are doing our part. Just this week we had Allied Waste...
View ArticleAnother Flag Season Has Come and Gone!
Well, with the Fourth of July behind us we have made it through another flag season here at Arkansas’ FlagandBanner.com.? And I am happy to report it was a fabulous one!!!? So far this year we have met...
View ArticleGo Green and Save Money in Shipping Department
Go Green doesn’t always cost money, sometimes it can save you money. Last year, shipping stopped buying packaging peanuts and began to use our shreded paper from accounting. We saved $4,000 in shipping...
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Why Donate to The Red Cross
Recently, I was asked to chair the Red Cross Blood Drive for my Club 99 Rotary group and I couldn’t have been happier. I have always liked the Red Cross. Part of my duties was to inform and invite...
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Go Hogs! – Appearance on 103.7 The Buzz every Friday for Football Season
If you know me now, you’ll find this next confession hard to believe. Like so many kids in middle and high school, I felt like a fish out of water. Too thin, too flat, too tall, too loud, too dumb,...
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All Under One Roof
The month of October is busy with football, Breast Cancer, Columbus Day, Halloween, and pre-planning for our fundraiser “Dancing Into Dreamland”. For those that don’t know where the sticks and bricks...
View ArticleMade in USA Christmas
ABC News recently did a story saying, “Economists say that if each American spends $64 on U.S. made items this h0liday season, they’d create 200,000 jobs”. Wow, is it really that easy? No, because...
View Article“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your...
Remember when President Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you but what can you do for your country”? Maybe it is time we revisited that sentiment. What if every American citizen...
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Mrs. McCoy goes to Washington…sort of
On the morning of January 2, 2013 I called my local banker, Al Hodge, at Arkansas Capital, to discuss the refinancing of my downtown real estate. He and I had been talking, for months, about using the...
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The China Experiment
There have been a number of news organizations talking about the Made in America movement. More retailers are starting to offer more products Made in U.S.A. — and even the big guns like Walmart have...
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Old Glory still an inspiration
Moore, Oklahoma resident Jim Stubblefield raises an American flag over the rubble the day after the tornado hit. I am so proud of the product I sell, the American flag. Since its inception, it has been...
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We’ve come a long way…oh, hang on a minute!
Women’s Equality Day is coming up on the 26th of August and we have come a long way baby, or so I thought. It wasn’t until my staff started doing some research for our up-coming sale and press...
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The human footprint on Earth
Our economy is in the post Industrial Age and it feels like a whole new society of sustainability. It may no longer be about being big in size but more about living big without leaving a big foot...
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ObamaCare helps small business in Arkansas
I am not trying to take a position. I just want to share my experience, to date. I think we are all starved for information from real life experiences and not political wrangling when it comes to the...
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AFB would be missed
Just a sampling of the reply cards we received in just a few weeks. American Express, the credit card company, recently tried to solicit my business by sending me a book about entrepreneurs. A few...
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Mosaic Templars MLK Challenge at Dreamland Ballroom
Last week I got a call from my business neighbor, the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, which I call our sister building because we are positioned like bookends on either end of Ninth Street, the street...
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2014 turning into a banner year
It’s almost the half-way mark of the year 2014 and it looks like it is going to be a banner year for AFB. Flag sales are strong and I am relieved to say the struggles of the 2012’s website upgrade...
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Literacy in the United States
Who knew that 14% of Americans cannot read, and 49% read on an 8th grade level? Another 14% have dyslexia. I wish I’d known that when I was in school. Maybe I wouldn’t have been so down on myself....
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Literacy in the U.S. – Continued
Last week I spoke about literacy in the United States and how I too had difficulties reading as a youth. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I discovered that I had dyslexia. That however has not...
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