Growing up, Nat King Cole—along with Johnny Mathis—was almost synonymous with Christmastime. I could hardly wait to pull the 33⅓ album from its sleeve and place it on the family console, letting the warm crackle announce the season. Maybe that’s why Nat King Cole recently crossed my mind. It is Christmastime, after […]
Sale, sale, sale! Buy, buy, buy! It’s that time of year when the television seems packed with longer commercial breaks and the inbox fills with more ads than actual mail. Everything shouts the same message: Look! Want! Buy! It was ABBA who sang: Money, money, moneyMust be funnyIn the rich man’s […]
When Travel Teaches You More Than You Expected Travel has a funny way of teaching lessons you never planned to learn. Sometimes it happens through a breathtaking view or a quiet museum. Other times, it’s through a single sentence from someone you’ve just met. That’s what happened to my wife […]
It sure seems that we’ve arrived at time and place when things seem to be spiraling out of control. In the musical words of the late Marvin Gaye, indeed, “What’s going on?” Sadly (or reassuringly), there is a constant and consistent theme. Well over two millennia ago the poet was […]
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