November 2016 Stepping outside recently on a crisp fall morning I was stunned (not too strong a word) by the glorious sight of fallen...

November 11, 2016 My wife and I are blessed with having a very large extended family. With that comes considerable diversity of interests...

Robert Edward Ix (1929 - 2016) Bob Ix went to his heavenly reward late Tuesday night after a brief illness, surrounded by his loving...

November 2017 In this Thanksgiving season, let us raise a glass to friendship. Real, simple, cordial, honest, mutual,...

I love to read, and I love to write. I owe that in good measure to Dr. Seuss, and I suspect many others do as well. Sadly, in the...

Notre Dame, Indiana. May 21, 2017. Much has been written – already – about the moment when a small number (we’ll get to that later) of...

December 2017 I’m no religion expert, but I am sufficiently familiar with the Jewish and Christian faith traditions to have a sense of...

Last week I participated in three separate discussions of cryptocurrencies (the best known of which is bitcoin) and blockchain...

“Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.” -- Max Ehrman, Desiderata © 1952 I am once again...

I haven’t been sleeping well lately. It’s not because I’ve been eating spicy foods, have bad dreams or a guilty conscience. We have a new...

Life is a teacher, and school is always in session. We lost my father-in-law just over a year ago. He was an amazing person, a captain of...

Family offices (essentially the in-house servicing of the financial, fiduciary, investment and administrative needs of wealthy families)...

[Note: This article was written in 2017] Summer 2017 is flying by. As a child, I remember spending long summer days outside in Upstate...

Many people don’t know that this is the official motto of the United States Army, adopted at the time of the Revolutionary War. According...