By Andrea Shorter– Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution grants the President of the United States the power to pardon any person convicted for or accused of…
By Robert Holgate and Jennifer Kroot– (Editor’s Note: This issue marks the launch of a new column jointly authored by Jennifer Kroot and Robert Holgate. Both are extremely successful in…
By Brandon Miller, CFP– Uncle Sam and Santa both have white beards, but no one really confuses the two. So, it may surprise you that the skinnier guy delivers gifts…
By Philip Ruth– An unpretentious image is generally seen as desirable, but it’s an elusive one in car marketing. Brands and sub-brands, model names, and corporate identities all aim to…
By Dr. Marcy Adelman– Shelly has been living with Alzheimer’s for several years now. Her wife Joan is her caregiver. Joan emailed me in search of a referral to someone who…
By John Lewis– “Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find he had been transformed into a gigantic cockroach.” So reads the first sentence of Franz Kafka’s 1915…
By Page Hodel– I can almost remember the exact moment that I realized I might be one of “those” people. I was driving shotgun in the red Morris Minor of…
By Jan Wahl– It’s been a fabulous career of not only movies, but also interviewing stars from Cary Grant to Johnny Depp (Grant was dry and funny, Depp deep and…
Queen’s “Thank God It’s Christmas” (“it’s been a long hard year”) will resonate even deeper this year. Now imagine a ballet set to this driving tune. Or to Eartha Kitt’s…
By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: This month’s column features Dr Naomi Wolf, who has penned an exclusive piece for the San Francisco Bay Times. Naomi is a liberal, progressive feminist…
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