Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about read more

Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.

It's so amazing, if I can use that word,

It's so amazing, if I can use that word,

At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance.

At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance.

As any bidder, Smith & Johnson was required to secure services of a bonding company in the role of an read more

As any bidder, Smith & Johnson was required to secure services of a bonding company in the role of an insurance company. If for whatever reason the contractor is unable to perform, the bonding company steps in and takes over responsibility for the work.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be read more

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness read more

What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness on the economy as to jeopardize modest growth in the year ahead, and the market is taking great delight in that.

We've tested our products in Alaska, the Arizona desert and the Florida Keys and after 30 years they still look read more

We've tested our products in Alaska, the Arizona desert and the Florida Keys and after 30 years they still look great.

All the newspapers have their own conflict of interest because they are protected by the businessmen, businessmen that Berlusconi has read more

All the newspapers have their own conflict of interest because they are protected by the businessmen, businessmen that Berlusconi has not been able to dominate.