The Undead
It turns out that Geoffrey may not have been a giraffe after all. He may be a vampire. By that I mean that he…
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Small Ball
I only knew one of my grandparents, my mother’s mother. She was born in 1891, long before the first World Series was played, but…
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Trade Wind
07/18/2018 I hear a lot these days about how great the economy is, with corporate profits through the roof and the unemployment rate dropping…
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Gone, Baby, Gone
05/16/2018 Like a lot of people my age, I spend a lot of time in Florida in the winter. Mostly I just want to…
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The Golden Fleece
I know this doesn’t reflect well on me, but my dog is something of a mess. His long fur is generally tangled and knotted,…
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Rough Cut
As a small-business owner, and as a citizen and taxpayer, there is nothing I have wanted more from our federal government over the past…
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Getting High
In September, the National Retail Federation published the results of a survey that it had commissioned to determine the current sentiment among owners of…
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Better Together
A recent survey indicated that the publishing industry in which I work is 78 percent female. I don’t know what the numbers were when…
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Stayin’ Alive
The word “apocalypse” comes from an ancient Greek term meaning an uncovering or disclosure of knowledge, but that is not the sense in which…
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A Little Less Conversation
The job market is picking up. I know we can argue about the “participation rate” and other contrary indicators, but when the unemployment rate…
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