Talking with a friend from the South, brought back memories for this pre-boomer about the local products I enjoyed as a kid. He thought a great after school snack was an RC Cola and a Moon Pie. My favorite, as a Philadelphian, was a Hires Root Beer and a Tastykake. It wasn’t until we were [...]
Experience tells us if we overprotect our children they end up missing what life is all about. Give them too much and they appreciate little. Fear of failure causes them to fail, making this a self-fulfilling prophesy. Pre-boomers (those born between 1930 and 1945) remember life when it was real, rewards were for achievement and [...]
Hollywood was feeling the effects of television in the early ‘50s. TV had revolutionized both communications and the entertainment in only few short years, after bursting onto the scene only a few years earlier. Big screen Technicolor spectaculars had their appeal, but people were content to stay home and watch the small screen black and [...]
The administration recently announced the employment trend is improving, even though unemployment rose again in December. The rationale this optimism is the trend indicates we are losing jobs at a reduced rate. If you or someone you know is included in the 10 percent who are on the unemployment roles or the additional7.5 percent considered [...]
With all the fancy number crunching going on in Washington, it’s hard to give the government any leeway when it comes to creative accounting practices. I’m not calling anyone a liar; however, I do have a hard time believing them. Below are examples that cause me to be skeptical, at best. Read along and see [...]
