Category Archives: Life

The Yearly Holiday Inferiority Complex

The most important Sunday of the year in the United States is Super Bowl Sunday (it’s February 5th this year, mark it down). It rarely is a good football game; but it matters not. It is the ultimate party Sunday … Continue reading

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An Intersection in Life

Sometimes it happens when you’re young… sometimes it happens when you have some mileage on your tires… but when you hit one of “life’s intersections” it is bound to have an impact on your life from that point forward. And … Continue reading

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Everything Plantain

  Several years ago Doc Reid, a Grapes colleague at the time, and I would share our thoughts on life… a collection of things that would make us laugh & smile, make us wince… or could make us cry. Perhaps … Continue reading

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Hey! Who The Hell Thought This Up?

  I wonder if there is a numismatist lobby.  There must be… and I think it must be as powerful (if not more so) than the tobacco lobby. I envision a collection of old men, gathered in leathered private studies, … Continue reading

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