How I found myself in a home office with my young children decades before Covid, and why it was the best thing that ever happened to me. The aha moment for me came as I was shuttling my 12-year-old daughter, Lexie, and five of her girlfriends to an after-school birthday…

I was 11 years old at the time. Trust me. You don’t know the paralyzing fear of a child even before any shots are fired. — The first time someone pointed a gun at me I was 11 years old — about the same age as the kids in Uvalde, Texas. “Go outside and find something to do,” Mom had commanded. Evidently, I was being a bother, which must have been the case often because this…

Here’s what food company Campbell and automaker Ford can teach us about sticker shock, and how little the experts know about inflation. Sometime in the early 1970s, I was helping my mom unload the groceries. She didn’t have to ask. I enjoyed being in the kitchen and soaking up her…

Take a breath. Those online insults might make you laugh. Facebook went live in 2004 essentially fulfilling the grand promise of social media, which has roots back to the advent of Morse Code in 1844. What took two centuries to develop needed just two decades to implode. This is not…

A church disclosure identified my former high school guidance counselor as a predator. It’s been 50 years — and now it’s personal. — After so many revelations of priests abusing children, I should not have been surprised to find my old guidance counselor named in a church mea culpa. I attended Catholic schools for 16 years. …

Here’s how the legendary motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson is dealing with issues related to its aging customer base — and why MLB should take the hint. — Major League Baseball has a Harley-Davidson problem: its primary customers are old and getting older. In both cases, this has been evident for at least a generation and yet neither has landed on a solution. At least Harley, whose beefy motorcycles are known as “hogs,” is trying.

At the airport. In the lobby. Suddenly I’m hearing Russian conversations all around me during my stay in Dubai, giving the war, for me, a new dimension. I don’t speak Russian. But I know Russian speak, and I’ve been hearing more of it here in Dubai, where I have been…

Rural states are cutting taxes to capitalize on a stampede out of high-tax states. More low-cost places to live is good news for retirees (among others). You can’t go home again, the Depression-era novelist Thomas Wolfe declared. But maybe you can — and should. Maybe you already have. In large…