Whenever I find myself becoming too involved in all the trivia of day-to-day living, I find myself  “Up on the roof.” What the Drifters were saying in their song is that for them the same thing holds. Sometimes you just have to “zone out.” Only in that way can you “center yourself.”

We’ve all probably been a target for a financial scam in our lives. They are especially dangerous for older citizens.

Mike Gold shares some of the most “common” schemes.

A fellow entrepreneur friend of mine, who founded two companies in the same industry as the one I worked in (providing computer systems for publishing companies), used to say this all the time; SMOPS - Simply a matter of programming.

As the title of this column is Left Coast / Right Coast, this week I thought I’d write about some of the differences in living on the East Coast as opposed to the West Coast.

I’m sure you’ve all read about President Trump’s plan to invest in our country’s infrastructure. About $1 trillion worth. What is this all about?

For most of us, life is a very long continuum. Many of our life challenges – the major things that define our lives – don’t really have a “hard ending” that we can complete in a short period of time. I thought it might be fun to look at things we can start and finish rather quickly.

Last week I wrote about how the Internet is fundamentally changing how we live and work today. This week I’ll cover some of the ways that the commercial side of the Internet works and how and why you’ll never have the privacy that we all once had.

Okay, this week I thought I’d write about a subject we are all familiar with. I call it Customer Service Hell.

God help you if you have to call any public service company.