I grew up in a family of Depression Era Parents and Boomer Kids. For us, the U.S. economy overall was very good in the 1950s-1970s as we moved around in corporate America from D.C. to Chicago,...

I grew up in a family of Depression Era Parents and Boomer Kids. My mother placed emphasis not only on achievement in school and sports but on working with the physically or mentally...

Well-traveled St. Elsewhere star: "Georgia is in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, right?" Our friend Ellen Bry, a nighttime drama television mainstay (St. Elsewhere, Dexter, Boston Legal, Monk, The...

A wise man's country is the world. --Aristippus (435-360 BC), as quoted by Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosphers "There is hope. I see traces of men." Aristippus was shipwrecked on...

At Richard Nahem's I Prefer Paris, see "Meredith Mullins: Chantilly Night".

Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it "doing business". --Narrator describing Oran in opening pages of The Plague (1947), by Albert...

Keeping good clients, getting new ones, making new ones "stick". These are on everyone's mind these days. For the 4 years WAC? has been up and running, the Canadian Bar Association's PracticeLink on "Client Services" has been--hands down--the best bar...

Let’s say you’re a blues guitarist with a broken ring finger on your fretboard hand. What do you do? If you’re Albert King, you put a splint on it, and you get out there and play. --The RainMan It's about "the customers"--and not just about...

The Flourishing: One of Florence's oldest churches, San Lorenzo was consecrated in the 4th century by St. Ambrose of Milan.

Once they let you get away with running around for 10 years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and then that about half the people you meet live from one day to the next in a state of such fear and uncertainty that about half the time they...