Well, we are in the dog days of summer, and the stock market is going to the dogs – Down over 2% last week and on the skids again today. Why am I so happy you ask? There are two wonderful qualities about the stock

Last week our son and his girlfriend began what turned out to be a halting and arduous trip from Salt Lake City to our home in New Hampshire.  Their first flight was delayed then cancelled as bad weather shut down the entire airport.  The airline

The other day I was reading a story about stealth military aircraft.  As you know, they employ technology designed to evade detection by both light and radar. The article got me thinking about a stealth tactic I see being used by brokerage firms and insurance

You know the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence because when you look at the lawn next door you’re getting a side view of one blade of grass next to and after another.  It’s just a sea of green.  But,

Our home more or less overlooks the Connecticut River.  When I say, “overlooks” I mean from a height of perhaps half a mile.  The last time the river flooded, I think it may have risen a dozen feet.  So, Jeanette and I were a little

It was not until my colleague Barry, here at the office and later my wife, Jeanette, complained about and explained their ailment that I discovered what all that hissing and buzzing I kept hearing really was.  I had been for years blissfully ignoring what I