As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 28th, 2019. When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. –H. L. Mencken A few days ago I met a […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 20th, 2019. ‘There’s no vacation from being a parent.” – Chevy Chase The high schools are now officially on summer vacation and the elementary school kids are not far behind. It hasn’t even been 24 hours and it seems like the kids are already stir crazy. The common refrains, […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 13th, 2019. Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated –Erma Bombeck I mentioned a few weeks ago that my oldest turned 18. Well, last week she graduated high school – though in true Israeli fashion […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 7th, 2019. I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. -Ronald Reagan I mentioned a few weeks ago that I am a huge fan of bakery cheesecake, a lot less so of most homemade varieties. This week […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 31st, 2019. If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you’re progressing until you step back and see how […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 23rd, 2019. I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players’ equipment. Bob Uecker Recently my two oldest daughters got into a bit of a tiff over who was going to babysit for a certain family. […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 16th, 2019. The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it’s a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don’t exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures. –Gloria Vanderbilt When investors turn back the clock 19 years, just after the hi-tech Internet […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 10th, 2019. You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’ –Jerry Seinfeld Sometimes my children complain that they aren’t portrayed in the brightest of lights in my columns. In fact, a few months […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 2nd, 2019. My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I’m going to say five years. I don’t want to retire. Jamie Dimon In preparing this column I decided to do a Google search on the phrase “secure financial future”. I figured there would be a high […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on April 25th, 2019. Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. -Sam Walton A few days ago our family did a navigation game in Old Jaffa. I highly recommend it as it was both educational and lots of fun. As part of the navigation challenge, we were […]
