Like everyone else on the planet, I spent a couple weeks this summer watching the Rio Olympics on TV. Like any great athlete, I was fully committed to my 24-hour-a-day, multi-channel schedule. By that, I mean that I spent the …

Outside many a barn and at every horse show, there is a Polymer Palace. Depending on where you’re from, they may be known as a Best Seat in the House, Drop Zone, Johnny on the Spot, Spiffy Biffy, Heeeere’s Johnny, …

I recently read a lengthy article about the science of memory. We still really don’t know too much about how our brains work, and the article spent a lot of time discussing neurons, hormones, dopamine and various other organic chemistry …

Every day, we’re bombarded by information. When the first radio broadcasts came crackling over the airwaves at the beginning of the last century, there were many thinkers (mostly people who sold books and newspapers, mind you) who lamented that the …

I was raised in a house with my two brothers, my father and my long-suffering mother. There are disadvantages to being raised in such a testosterone filled environment. To say that my understanding of the interpersonal relationships between women is …

I’ve been dragged, kicking and screaming, into the world of social media. I didn’t want to be. I held to my Luddite principles for as long as I could bear it, and I still can’t abide the term “social media”, …

In any place of business, there are about 1,000 decisions a day, which need to be made to ensure the success of the overall operation. Somebody has to decide how much chicken to drop at the KFC (the answer is …