Happy 2005

Happy New Year to all my readers, from New York.  I’ll be watching the Times Square ball drop, as I hope you will as well, in whatever time zone you’re in (and no, I haven’t been foolish or drunken enough to watch it in person for many...

Blogosphere Meets Real World: A Gift

Back from four days in California (Laguna) for Christmas, seeing my wife Janet’s parents.  No matter how many Christmas’s I have spent in California or, earlier in my life, Florida (Sarasota, where my parents retired), I simply cannot get used to...

Merry Christmas

"Adam Smith, Esq." was born early last year, and, as the calendar inevitably rolls over, I want to wish each and every reader a Merry Christmas, and the most propitious of New Year’s, reflecting whatever your hearts most desire and your dreams most...