In 1922 T. S. Eliot’s famous work “The Waste Land” was first published. This poem was written after the First World War when Europe was a crumbling mess. He opens the poem by stating that the cruelest...

The month of April is often considered that dreadful “income tax month.” It does not matter whether you do your own taxes, have a friend or relative do them or use a professional tax preparer.  But...

Last year’s edition of Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s annual holiday tour was an outing unlike any other for everyone involved in bringing the visually spectacular concerts to audiences across the United...

Election Day has come and gone. No more candidate commercials. No more mailings, telephone calls or knocks on the door. Those we elected will serve us for two, four or six years. I am sure we are...

Winter is gone, and spring begins to bring new life. The flowers bloom and the leaves begin to cover barren branches. The world seems renewed. Spring is a hopeful season. It brings transformation and...

March. The third month. The month named after Mars, the Roman god of war.  What does the month mean to you? For some it is the beginning of spring.  For the Irish among us, it is the time of the St....

Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was reading the newspaper after his brother died and was shocked by the obituary: The story was mistakenly about Nobel himself and read, “The merchant of death...

December! The days grow shorter and colder. As a child I lived in a coal mining camp in Alaska where the temperatures dropped to the negative double digits and the days were very short.     It was...

Thanks: He came home from football practice complaining of feeling unwell. During the evening he got progressively worse and the doctor was called. The diagnosis was polio. He was rushed to the hospital...

Labor Day and September always mark the end of summer. A new beginning. When I was young, a new school year began the day after Labor Day. One of my granddaughters is in eighth grade. I tell her to study...