The latest jobs report showed that the US economy added 173,000 jobs, bringing the unemployment rate down to 5.1%.
Sounds great, right?
You know by now that much of my reporting reflects the adage that the quality of the question drives the quality of the answer. Asking how many jobs were added is a fair question, but I don’t think it’s a very good one.
Much smarter would be: Of the jobs we’ve added . . . Read More
Sometimes retirement planning feels a lot like couples therapy. Ellen: “Harvey is retired now. We’re OK financially. I don’t want our new life to be just a later version of our old one. We worked too long and too hard to settle now. I want you to push Harvey into understanding this.” Harvey: “Ellen has grown bored the last few…
If you are in a relationship, no matter how long you have been together or how well (or not) you get along, one of you will be alone someday. It happens that this is top of mind at the moment. My new possible solution: Line Dancing. Really? Line Dancing? Yes. It came to me when my wife, Brown Eyes, said…
My 6-year-old granddaughter and I were at the grocery store, just the two of us.
She lives on the other side of the United States with her family. Skype is a sorry substitute for spending time (in the flesh, not virtually) with her, her sisters, and her cousins. So I have to make the most of every opportunity when we’re actually together, in person. . . . Read More
A much younger me once went to Puerto Vallarta on vacation. Like many Mexican resort towns, there was a string of hotels on and near the beach and, several blocks inland, the humming city of the locals. Adjacent to the beach was a market full of local crafts. Almost every day a cruise ship would arrive, passengers would be bused…
I admit it: I’m angry. I’m angry that anyone of any age in my country would commit premeditated murder, much less in a church prayer session. We’re supposed to be a nation of good guys. A beacon to the world that democracy works in the end. The land of the free and the home of the brave. What was brave…
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