In my youth, I collected every Led Zeppelin album as soon as they hit the record store. I was even fortunate enough to see them live in c...

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When I was young, my father used to repeat a saying every time I would wish for something that simply was not going to happen. He would s...

I have a confession to make. For me, any major purchase decision I make takes weeks if not months. It’s not that I am reluctant to part w...

In my youth, my parents limited my television time to 1.5 hours per week. In 1966, I invested a portion of that time watching “The Time T...

If you are over the age of 25, you likely remember exactly where you were and what you were doing on the morning of September 11th, 2001....

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Back before the dawn of time, before Al Gore invented the Internet and we buried our heads in our phones, there was no such thing as job ...

It’s summer in Upstate NY. Forget the old joke about nine months of winter and three months of bad sledding! The weather is beautiful. An...

With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing coming up next month and Father’s Day this past weekend, I wanted to share a stor...

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In 1967, The Beatles released their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Featured on that legendary album, was a song titled “A D...

When you are looking for great quotes to headline a blog article, you can’t get any better than Yogi Berra. The famous NY Yankees basebal...

If you are looking for this week’s article to include a list of tips and tricks to improve your job search, you are going to be disappoin...

What do Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol and the Declaration of Independence have in common? Both that classic piece of literature and th...

One of the first movies I ever watched and fell in love with was the Wizard of Oz. Trust me. My interest was not in the possible deeper m...