May, 2019 When Financier Robert Smith spoke at the Morehouse College graduation this weekend (May 19, 2019), he told the 400 graduating students that he intended to pay off all of their student loans, to the tune of roughly $40 million dollars. The surprise news rolled through the room like a tsunami. Smith hadn’t even…
Category: Life Lessons
Aging means letting go and grieving the loss
December 13, 2018 My mother loved the story of the one horse shay by Oliver Wendell Homes. The shay, a light, two-person carriage, was built so well that it worked flawlessly for 100 years. Then it fell apart. That was her life plan, and she would say, despite her agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, diabetes and…
Live and let live
May, 2018 I have a theory that when you increase the number of people in an area past a certain point, behavior turns nasty. And the more people there are the nastier it gets. Whenever my wife and I drove to Long Island, which is very crowded these days, to visit Kathy’s parents, I could…
The two most important things in life
July 2015 The two most important guidelines for life are, in my opinion, how you take care of yourself, and how you take care of others – in that order. They must be in that order because if you don’t do the first one well, you won’t be able to do the second properly. In…
You’re doing the best you can
September, 2017 I hate it when people say “Do your best.” Or even worse, “You can do better than that.” I know they believe they’re being helpful, but they’re not. At least not to me. I believe that we are all doing the best we can at any given moment, and if we could…