One of my all-time favorite Sesame Street characters—even now—is “Lefty”, the fast talking, trenchcoat-wearing street salesman. In one...

“In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” is a quote, popularly attributed to Benjamin Franklin...

NFL Coach Firings: Who’s gone, openings and candidates (January 2, 2019, 10:31 AM). Meet the 2019 Draft Quarterback Class: Everything you...

The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life (by Lee Eisenberg, and not to be confused with a ridiculous...

The Wall Street Journal on 12/11/18 had a fun story on the creativity of pet tortoises, particularly when it comes to escaping their...

Some of you may have seen a clichéd-but-true sign that someone posted on LinkedIn a few days ago. It reads: We have three kinds of...

Fairness does not mean that everyone gets the same thing. It means that everyone gets what they need. –Rick Riordan (1964- ), author of...

The sky over Illinois, my home state, is mainly grey in the late-autumn. This year, it seems like snow and snow clouds have come a bit...

In the novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, the protagonist tricks his friends into doing a large chore for him for free. The story...

“So-and-so can’t see the forest for the trees”, is a colorful way of describing a person who focuses on a particular detail of a...

The truism “With great power comes great responsibility”, defined the life of Peter Parker as Spider-Man. Taking responsibility for...

But I say to you that when you work, you fulfill a part of the earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born…Work is...

The 80s featured some really good movies and some rather goofy ones. I’ll leave it up to you, the reader, to decide which description...

When I was in fifth grade, my best friend and I used to play a game called “But what you don’t know is…” You could play it entirely...

Those of us of a certain age remember the agonizing saga of Charlie Brown, Lucy Van Pelt and the football. Periodically in the...

In past blogs, I have written a lot about Work Incentives offered by Social Security and Medicaid to workers with disabilities. The Work...

Labor Day celebrates the working person and, it might seem to a visiting alien, the fact that all that money we earn from working needs...

If you have a child with a disability, you very probably need to consider permanent life insurance rather than just term insurance. This...

My son loves to play Minecraft®. It’s one of his video games to which I object the least because it does encourage creativity. If only...

Everyone wants to obtain the maximum 100% of anything for which they are legitimately eligible. A popular discount chain used to run a...