Amid the concern over COVID - 19 many media outlets failed to report that the United States just celebrated its birthday.  What you say, you thought America’s birthday wasn’t until the Fourth of July? Au contraire dear reader—please read on.  Webster’s tell us a...

Culture places enormous pressure on all of us to follow the rules.  As toddlers we’re taught not to touch the hot stove or to put foreign objects in our mouths and to go to sleep at bedtime.  Later, in elementary school we were taught not to color outside the lines...

My sister jokes that we’re on life’s “back nine.”  Of course we are—I just hope we’re not putting on 18!  Now having said that and keeping with the golf metaphor, from a statistical perspective we’re actually teeing off on 18, but that’s not much solace.  Nonetheless,...

Our nation operates under a system of government known as federalism; i.e., the sharing of power between the individual states and the federal as prescribed in the Constitution.  Federalism is defined as a governmental system wherein sovereignty is constitutionally...

Is there a medical term for what I refer to as mental dominoes?  Maybe a medical professional who's reading this can email and tell me. And no this isn't an April Fools joke, I'm really referring to the experience of watching TV when a Scott’s lawn builder commercial...

Does anyone recall the Seinfeld episode when Jerry, Kramer and Newman were sitting in Jerry’s car discussing how the various days of the week had a certain feel to them?  I often think of that episode and how it epitomized the genius of the Seinfeld writers.  After...

Sometimes in life we will read words of wisdom or come across an old saying or aphorism that conveys a message or general truth that resonates with us.  At times they’re light-hearted, i.e. “Don’t tug on Superman’s cape,” or “Don’t spit into the wind,” but sometimes...

With all that’s going on in the world, instead of adding to the concern about the coronavirus, I thought a short story about the ‘softer’ side of life might be in order. Silly me, I was opening the mail using my index finger instead of a letter opener and as I brushed...

When the store manager at Wal-Mart announces, “Special de hoy; ¡comprar tres tomates y conseguir uno libre!” over its public address system Wal-Mart is providing a service to a segment of its customer base.  At the same time many find it irritating when a clerk at the...

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.  The class insisted that wealth re-distribution (aka socialism) worked because then no one would be poor and no one would...