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So here we are, heading down the runway for a flight toward Christmas and hoping that, between now and then, it won’t be a bumpy ride (or that, at most, we’ll have only minor turbulence)....

“Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existence.” — Mark Twain. Here we are, trotting toward Thanksgiving, with the bulk of Election Tuesday in the rearview. Quite a welcome relief...

“Have It Your Way.” — old Burger King jingle “You Rule.” — new Burger King jingle The Burger King folks certainly have your preferences on their minds when it comes to making a pitch for...

Even if, for some inexplicable reason, you have absolutely no friends … your email inbox will probably prove otherwise. And your “friends” could be folks you don’t even know. My inbox is continually littered with...

“OK.” Then a breath. “Here we go.” The phrase was always calm and understated. He’d use it to end meetings, often prior to going into what we all knew might be a bit of a...

In a rather novel twist on executive privilege, the former occupant of the White House announced a couple of days ago that he had decided to declassify the classified documents found in his Mar-a-Lago home...

“There’s a sucker born every minute.” — quote attributed to P.T. Barnum In reality, Barnum — a showman, circus owner, politician and philanthropist — never mentioned anything about gullible folks coming into the world every...

We arrived in Sun Valley a few days ago. Contrary to expectations, our mode of transport was not one favored by the rich and famous (a G7 jet), but one befitting our own modest status...

We ordered a small appliance the other day and, when it finally arrived, it didn’t work correctly.

So here we go again … another mass shooting, another round of “What are we going to do about it?”