Pre-boomers remember the time when service played an important role in the selection of the stores in which we shopped the restaurants where we ate and virtually any one with whom we did personal and professional business. Times have changed and service, as we knew it, is a thing of the past.
One of the first [...]
I fondly remember the Liberty Theatre in Philadelphia as the place where I received an extra-large dose of entertainment. The Saturday afternoon movie extravaganza lasted for hours and took the youngsters attending on a journey of fun, excitement and shoot ‘em up adventures. Being there was a social event for kids of all ages. Through [...]
The jobless rate reached 10.2 percent as October ended, marking the highest level of unemployment in nearly three decades. Percentages are just statistics; the reality is there are 15.7 million men and women who want to work but cannot find a job. Add to this the underemployed, those who are working part-time even though they [...]
Public option, consumer option, competitive option no matter what you call it this is the government-run option. If health care were not so important to pre-boomers like me, this debate – which is really finger pointing and posturing rather than a civil exchange of ideas – would be considered a joke. But it’s no laughing [...]
When I was a kid, people took care of their aging parents, even older family members like aunts and uncles. There was always a place for them to sleep and another chair could be pulled up to the dining room table. They were family, so you shared what you had with them. Of course, that [...]
