Don’t look now, but Labor Day is upon us.  Yes, that dreaded end-of-summer holiday arrives on Monday next, bringing with it the return to our normal existences.  (And, by the way, didn’t there used to be a rule that Labor Day couldn’t be on September 1?  I thought it was always the first Monday, […]

              Have you had your summer vacation yet?  If you’re like many Americans, you might very well be on it right now.  I’m somewhat of an expert on vacations, having suffered through more than a few of them.  Here are a few of my thoughts on some of the more popular types of vacations that […]

              “The child is the father to the man.” –William Wordsworth, poet                Psychologists will tell you that your adult persona, the person you ultimately become, isn’t fixed until you are well into your twenties.  More specifically, they say that most women have reached that point by the age of 25, while many men don’t […]

              Much is being written this week and weekend about the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, the nation’s 37th president (36th if you count Grover Cleveland’s split administrations as one president instead of two).  The cause for all the ink is the fortieth anniversary of Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974, and much of what you’ll […]