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So I’ve known this guy (let’s call him Jerry) for a very long time. We came up in the business together, and I like him. He’s a good guy, and if he lived next door he wou...

We were once a five-car family. That was when the four daughters were in college. Three of them had cars, which The Lovely Marianne and I paid for, of course.

It wasn’t a very long list – just 25 people in all – but it nagged at Buddy in the night and robbed him of his rest. He’d toss and dream unsettling dreams of Mrs. Gibbing...

That’s the title of a fine book by my dear friend, Ellen Rohr. Ellen wrote it years ago and she offers great advice to anyone in business who’s looking to stay in busines...

I got a letter from a friend who is a relocated New Yorker. He now lives in a part of America where people with excess money build second homes that they’ll use for a few...

Ernie had been building his business like a man laying bricks. He believed in being methodical, and he believed in doing things right. You advertise.

It was time to redo the kitchen. When we did the dormer 25 years ago, the plumber ran the copper tubing across the kitchen ceiling and over to new upstairs bathroom. I tr...

Carl’s nephew, Mark, had just graduated from high school and was working as Carl’s helper for the summer. He was 10 minutes late to our house and when he walked in Carl l...

You know the feeling. You are in a tight crawlspace with a 20-foot crawl to the hatch. Or, you are on a rooftop, and have to climb down the extension ladder for a 3-block...

My earliest memory of truly learning about conduction was when I was an 11-year-old Boy Scout at my first jamboree. We had a fire going at our campsite and my Scoutmaster...