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The Mission Becomes Possible

I hated the Mission: Impossible TV show. Let me just get that out of the way. It was a fixture on Sunday afternoons when we didn’t have cable—reruns of that lifeless series looping like some cruel punishment. It was always the same shtick: dull plots, eve...

I didn’t fit within their paradigm

When I was at American University Washington College of Law, the dean at the time was a man named Claudio Grossman. He was from Chile and seemed to carry that fact around like a passport that needed stamping at every conversation. His favorite word was paradi...

Harry Carson

My son, Jason, loves card shows. He loves meeting athletes, collecting autographs, and everything t...

A law school in Free Fall: My “love letter” to WCL

So here’s a fun little story: In 1997, I graduated from American University Washington College of...

A law school in Free Fall: My “love letter” to WCL

So here’s a fun little story: In 1997, I graduated from American University Washington College of...

The Oceanside Pat On The Back Society

In the 401(k) industry, people get honored from time to time. Heck, I’ve even been named to 401k ...

The Ottawa Adventure

When I was younger, my family didn’t take many vacations because we were a one income family and ...

Breaking Bad with Poker?

One of my favorite shows was Breaking Bad, the curious case of dying chemistry teacher Walter White...

Feed the passion and the joy

I fell in love with baseball in 1979. I followed it, without even knowing all the rules or when the...

I’m not volunteering

The local library had its volunteer fair. There are about five or six civic groups in my village an...