This summer, my wife and I took a vacation with our three semi-grown daughters to one of the most expensive places in America. No, we didn’t visit our local insurance office. We toured several beautiful and fascinating cities in New England. Our first stop was Newburyport, Massachusetts. We hadn’t planned to visit this charming coastal […]

In 1902, Puck magazine noted that “Things move along so rapidly nowadays that people saying: ‘It can’t be done,’ are always being interrupted by somebody doing it.” This has certainly been my experience working in the practical sustainability field for the past 30 years. Last week, a business partner and I visited the Clay Brook […]

When it comes to politics and policy, some of the national news stories we are reading and watching lately can leave us feeling discouraged or overwhelmed. That happens regardless of which way we lean, and today it’s doubly true in the wake of the horrific assassination attempt on the former president. I’ve been following our […]

Conventional wisdom is dead. No pundit’s opinion on the election could foresee the assassination attempt on Donald Trump or the debate debacle of Joe Biden. Both events changed everything, especially for the Democrats. Even before these developments, Biden struggled to stay even with Trump in the polls. This is not a good position for an […]

William Butler Yeats, the greatest English-speaking poet of the 20th century, foretold our own political crisis in “The Second Coming,” his penetrating depiction of Ireland a century ago: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.” The “best” now are the Democratic Party elite, who even before the June […]

It’s time, Joe. It’s time to end your campaign. This is not about you; this is about the future of .American democracy. By the way, I’m not alone, A recent poll revealed that 56% of Democrats share my view. Consider the possible scenarios if you insist on staying in the campaign: First, you lose the […]

Her name was Jeannette, and she had brilliantly made lots of money in the stock market in the early 1900s, which she’d obviously taken out just in time, because all her friends, neighbors and relatives who’d kept their funds invested went into the hopper when the Great Depression hit. Jeannette knew of the formerly well-heeled, […]