The Whiffenpoofs
I first became aware of “specialty” toy stores more than 30 years ago. Some of them were hybrids spun off from the school supply…
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Truckin’
As long as I have been around the toy industry, there has been a discussion, sometimes heated, about the role that gender plays in…
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Hold the Phone
Sometimes it’s difficult to separate our philosophical opinions from our self-interest. Do we favor certain government programs, for example, or tax policy, or whatever…
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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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