November 2021

Even though travel was uncertain during COVID, my friend and I booked a ski trip in France for January 2022. We booked it through Club Med and the package includes almost everything you could imagine, including accommodations, food, drinks, ski passes and entertainment. It even includes air travel. I thought about buying the air travel …

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Recently President Biden said that wealthy Americans need to pay their “fair share” of taxes. Hillary Clinton said the rich are not paying their “fair share.” At the time of his presidency, Barack Obama, wanted everyone to get a “fair shot.” I have a problem with “fair.” Imagine this scenario. A friend of mine (let’s …

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Finally, I got to travel. I haven’t been on a plane since February 2020 when I came back from a ski trip to St. Moritz in Switzerland. With things are getting back to a more normal situation and having a client that needed my assistance to tape a segment on the show New To The …

Traveling in the Time of COVID or More Stupid Rules that Make No Sense Read More »

Is truth relative? I ask this question because I recently made a post on LinkedIn about truth in the media. A Dr. Scott Dell (CPA, CPC, DBA), who represents himself as an award winning academic, replied with this comment: “Whose truth? Truth during the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, WWII, and the Dot Comm Boom can …

Truth is Not Relative – One Truth is True, the Others are False Beliefs Read More »

Are corporations people? Of course, corporations are not people. Yet sensationalistic journalists have been bandying about this idea that corporations are somehow now people, and that’s a bad thing. After all, why should corporations have the same rights as people? This idea really came to fruition with the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizen United …

Corporations – They are not People but They Still Need the Right to Free Speech Read More »

There are some things about TV shows and movies that I just do not like. These are personal. You might feel completely differently than I do. A lot of people must feel completely differently than I do because the people who write and produce TV shows and movies continue to include these annoying story telling …

Six Story Telling Techniques Used by Writers and Directors That Should Be Scrapped Read More »

I don’t have a problem with billionaires. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is worth over $100 billion. Good for him. But I do have a problem when someone worth $100 billion who runs a company that provides about the worst customer service on the planet. I am an author and two of my books relate …

If Facebook Were Selling Tires, They’d be Shut Down for Selling Defective Products Read More »

Have you been through a divorce? How was the experience? I know that it varies from couple to couple. For some it’s not much more than filing a few papers with the court and then each individual goes his or her own separate way. However, for others, it can be costly and traumatic, and can …

We Spend $6.5 Billion Every Year on Divorces – There Has to be a Better Way Read More »