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I had gotten back from a road trip and was going over some old issues of Newsday when I spotted his obituary. It sent me spinning back a bunch of years and the memories h...

"We haven't had decent heat since that heating contractor left our basement," the woman complained. She was about as angry as any homeowner who had ever called me. "We pa...

I was in Manhattan for a meeting and had some extra time on my hands, so I strolled over to West 31th Street to where a bunch of guys had gotten together for a meeting on...

Mike, an old friend, sent me an email that had me spinning back in time. He wrote, "I am sure that there is a story here. A while back, we brought a mobile piece of equip...

So we've been telling each other for years that not many young people are coming into this fascinating industry of ours. When I was still doing seminars I would ask for a...

Having been married to The Lovely Marianne for more than 45 years, and having been in business with her since 1989, I feel qualified to give you this advice on how to be ...

This article from the On The Town section of The New Yorker is such a nice way to end my speaking career. Many thanks to the very talented Zora O'Neill for writing the pi...

The steam seminar was to be in North Carolina, which was strange enough, that being the state where most folks only know how to say, “Heat pump, please.” It was also to b...

There was this day in the summer of '88 when it dawned on me that in 12 short years all four of our daughters would be in college at the same time. Kelly would be a senio...

I fished for the first time in my life six years ago, which may seem strange since I was born on an island (Manhattan) and grew up on another island (Long). But my father...