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Thursday, February 02, 2017

Sports memorabilia people are REALLY crazy

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When I was a kid, I went to quite a few Holy Cross football games, first with my father and later with my friends – something pleasant to do...
Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Taking a gamble

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I’m not much of a gambler, but two recent articles on the topic caught my eye. The one in The Boston Globe described the plight of one Davi...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Fitbit to be tied

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My sister Trish gave me a Fitbit for my birthday. That was nearly two months ago, and, on Saturday, I finally got around to setting it up. ...
Monday, January 30, 2017

For this Ponzi scheme, it was all about the Hamiltons

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Perhaps because I haven never been caught up in one, I always sort of enjoy reading about Ponzi schemes. (Extra points, I suspect, because t...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Hell, no! We won’t be disrupted!

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Admittedly, I’m off my pace, which is 1-2 books per week, but I have always been and always will be a reader. Of late, I’m spending more tim...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Mary Richards, working girl. Make that working woman.

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In the TV world of my youth, women were boring, pearl-wearing, shirt-waisted moms (June Cleaver, Margaret Anderson, Donna Stone).The only no...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Oh, oh, the Wells Fargo scandals keep a-comin’

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If you thought that last fall’s revelation on their abysmal fake account practices  - a topic Pink Slip very much enjoyed - was all that W...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Yet another industry trying to keep the lid on production costs

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Perhaps intuiting that things, election-wise, were going to pot, and that we might need a spliff or two on hand to get us through the next f...
Monday, January 23, 2017

What’s in store for us oldsters? Looks like robots. (Or, exactly what are people going to do for work?)

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Later this week, I’m having lunch with an older friend – older enough of a friend to be my mother.  N is in her late eighties, and has slowe...
Friday, January 20, 2017

A Fish Story

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When I was growing up, Friday was fish day: pan fried haddock, creamed tuna, fish sticks, swordfish, halibut, corned chowder. (What I wouldn...
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Moola, moola! Moola, moola!

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At some point last week, the college football season ended. At least I think I did. There may be some stray north-south, east-west games to ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Bites the Sawdust

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When I was a kid, the Mickey Mouse Club (a daily TV show) had a different theme for each day of the week. There was Anything Can Happen Day....
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Just what IS a fake Mermaid tail blanket?

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A few weeks ago, a family featured on House Hunters International had decided to relocate from Idaho (or Montana or one of the Dakotas) to N...
Monday, January 16, 2017

MLK Day, yet again

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One good thing about having been a blogger for so long – ten years+, now  –  is that I have a vast store of “content” to draw on. And as eve...
Friday, January 13, 2017

"The high priest of fraud..."

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It’s Friday the 13th, and that should be unlucky, no? But, as it turns out, anyone who’s a fan of old Westerns has a treat in store for...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Home away from home office

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One of the downsides of working from home is that you’re alone in there: no colleagues to grab lunch with, no buddies to chat with over the ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Survivor: team building as a near-death experience

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Second only to the company holiday party, there’s nothing I more dreaded during my days in corporate than the off-site team building exercis...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Garage, Sweet Garage. (Coming soon to HGTV.)

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A few weeks ago, I saw an article in the NY Times on “The Final Frontier in Home Renovation.” That final frontier is, of course, the garage...
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