Category Archives: Practice

Near its mid-point, the year 2017 has all the trappings of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, in which the timeless passage reads, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …”. The broad stock and … Read more

A journalist posted an interesting question on the financial advisor network to which I belong: “I am writing a piece on money moves to make after paying off a big debt and am looking for suggestions from the experts. What … Read more

As if it were yesterday, I remember the moment I “retired” from organized football. Never a sports star, I had, however, been the starting tight end on my high school team. When applying to colleges, a couple of the college … Read more

Perhaps it is a part of growing older, or maybe it is the effect of advances in technology. Whatever the reason, kids these days seem to speak in a language that would have gotten someone of my generation smacked by … Read more

“Each man sees himself in the Grand Canyon,” wrote Carl Sandburg, in Good Morning, America (New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1928). The image of the individual lifting himself up by his own bootstraps is at the core of the American identity. … Read more