The Fable of the Barons

The Fable of the Barons

 “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult...
Only The Artists Can Fix It

Only The Artists Can Fix It

 Many years ago during a local supervisors race I was tasked with developing a fundraiser for a local candidate. I owned a restaurant at the time and I had just finished rebuilding after a disastrous fire. We had moved the bar from the cellar to a large beautiful...
Resign

Resign

 Why did an 80-year-old widower who lives in a Newtown Square retirement community spend $50,000 to take out a full-page ad in last Sunday’s New York Times pleading for President Donald Trump to resign? Read the answer HERE.Text of the full page ad that an 80 year old...
At The Circus

At The Circus

 But what of the Roman Mob? They follow Fortune, as always, and hate whoever she Condemns. If Nortia, as the Etruscans called her, had favoured Etruscan Sejanus; if the old Emperor had been surreptitiously Smothered; that same crowd in a moment would have hailed Their...
Slow

Slow

“There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return. Perhaps, however, there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were...