by Wayne Schoeneberg | Apr 18, 2018 | After Dinner Speaker
An Open Letter to Starbucks Dear Starbucks; The manager of that Starbucks store in Philadelphia really screwed up when she called 911 to make a report about the two African-American men sitting in her store not buying anything. Okay, now that we have stated the...
by Wayne Schoeneberg | Jun 29, 2016 | Wayne's Wise Words
If You Snooze, You Lose! In the last installment of this series, The Backpack Project, I wrote about going to Kaldi’s coffee shop near my house and rather than approaching a man who was in there with a backpack I wrote all about it. I was feeling my way through...
by Wayne Schoeneberg | Jun 7, 2016 | Wayne's Wise Words
Oh, Just Do It! Now for some fun. I was off to Kaldi Coffee in Kirkwood to see who I could find with a backpack. A coffee shop should be a target rich environment. I figured I would just stroll in, order some coffee and find somebody with a backpack. I would walk up...
by Wayne Schoeneberg | May 21, 2016 | Wayne's Wise Words
My Backpack? No Way! The backpack project started out with an idea that I could find out a lot about people by what they carry in their backpack. It was curious to me that so many people were carrying backpacks in these current times. Was the backpack replacing the...
