The View from This Seat

Many people, including many who regularly read this blog, have investment portfolios which they seek to optimize regularly. But what about o...

Thanksgiving Day means different things to different people. But in addition to school and work holidays it often involves family gathering...

One of the best films of 1940 was The Grapes of Wrath , based on John Steinbeck’s novel by the same name. The book was published in 1939, an...

Things change, and in order to live successfully we generally have to accept even unwelcome changes and move on. Sometimes things change bec...

At 11:11 on 11/11 each year, the siren mounted on the water tower in my hometown (Grant City, Mo.) would go off for one minute. The school I...

Robin Carnahan, whom I supported in my previous blog posting, unfortunately lost her bid for the U.S. Senate. But, fortunately, so did Chris...

The midterm elections are on November 2, and as often happens, the party in power is in danger of losing a considerable number of congres...