Humor disarms. It lowers our guard just enough to make us open to ideas we might otherwise resist, and it reminds us not to take everything quite so seriously. That’s especially valuable in a season like this one. Fall always…

Fall is officially here. For my wife and me, it came with something that is apparently quite rare these days—an invitation to dinner. We were invited by the parents of our daughter’s good friend to a home-cooked meal at their…

If you are a parent or grandparent, the odds are that you have had to deal with a child going through the time in their lives lovingly referred to as the “terrible twos.” Parents who have lived through this will…

Last week the U.S. Treasury auctioned $70 billion in 5-year notes. By any conventional measure, this was a weak auction in which buyers needed concessions:   Since 2023, bond investors have been increasingly worried about a combination of fiscal, inflationary…

Upon returning from a trip this summer, my family was surprised to find that the smoke alarms in our house had staged a revolt. All of them had been installed together. Therefore, they all reached the end of their 10-year…