Back in high school, my best friend and I went over to a friend’s house after school one day. He had an 60-something Ford Mustang he was restoring and he wanted us to see it. “I’m going to have this thing cherry by the end of the year,” Tom said. …

Back in 2009, a year or so into the Great Recession, things were tough all over. The ad agency I co-founded was on financial thin ice and the reality of paying two partners and a staff what they needed to survive was getting tougher by the day. Like virtually every…

I live in Las Vegas, Nevada, a town full of people who have moved here from all over the country. Yes, they come in droves from California, but there’s also a large contingent from places like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Indianapolis and other parts of the country where sports are everything…

As determined as I was to avoid attending The Nutcracker last holiday season, once again on a mid-December afternoon I found myself sitting at the theatre with my wife, daughter and mother-in-law ringing in the season with everyone’s favorite ballet. There were four tickets and I drew the short straw…

For a large chunk of my adult life I was in a position of power where hiring and firing were my responsibilities. I was a partner in several ad agencies for a number of those years, and a vice president of marketing at a large real estate brokerage for a…

At the grocery store I shop at, there’s this gigantic lot with tons of parking spots, including the usual prime real estate reserved for the handicapped. …

More than a decade ago I read David McCullough’s epic biography of John Adams. I remember it being a fascinating account that was full of insight on a man that until then was largely a mystery to me. …