It’s another brand, spanking new year. It’s a blank slate, a whole new ballgame, a time to turn the page. Pick your cliché. In reality, what a new calendar offers is limitless. Individually, everyone can […]

As we approach the end of the year, it’s time for me to catalog all of my accomplishments during 2025. Being my first full year of retirement, it was filled with thrills of all kinds. […]

I may be 72 years old, but I identify as 27, so that makes me way too young to be a grandfather. At least that’s what I thought. But several weeks ago, one of our […]

I recently read in The Wall Street Journal that it takes $300,000 to raise a child from birth to 17 years old. My immediate reaction: someone has been cooking the books. There’s no way it […]

I wasn’t invited, and I’m just a little bit torqued. My best friends, Lauren and Jeff, tied the knot recently, and I had my bags packed for the trip to Venice. Oprah was invited. So […]

As you celebrate our many freedoms during the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, thank newspapers. They were the weapons of choice used by the radicals of the American Revolution. The pen, it turns out, really […]

Here I go again. It’s time for my annual birthday joke. Bear with me. So it’s my birthday. Yep, I turned 27, and other than a slight case of dyslexia, I feel pretty good. I […]

I am often tickled by professional athletes who break out in a celebratory dance whenever they do their job. For example, when a football player scores a touchdown, he will often dance around, flex his […]

I’m not much of a gambler. Oh, I have bought a random lottery ticket over the years, but never won much. The grand total of my winnings is something like $4. I might as well […]

As I write this I am in the midst of doing something I’ve never really done before. I’m retiring – and this time I mean it.  Fifty years ago, I wrote my first freelance story. […]