A few years ago, one of my sons who has always been very tech oriented introduced me to Bitcoin, which was trading for about $10 at the time. I felt his pain as he struggled to teach this “baby boomer” about the new digital technology which he insisted was going to flood the earth. In…
When I was 15, I spent a summer living at my cousin’s house working for a local farmer. Farm work is hard but the task that was particularly difficult for me, on an emotional level, was when he sent us out to thin the peach trees. We climbed ladders up into the trees loaded with…
In the Bible a conflicted Pontius Pilate posed the question, “What is Truth?” Those three words sum up much of the human experience. The year 2020 will be remembered as an often-heated battle to find truth. The virus response, racial tension and numerous areas of political debate deeply divided our nation. With each declaring the…
In the mid 1950’s a mutual fund family was approached by a convent of nuns who had a couple million dollars to invest. Because of their religious beliefs, they didn’t want any of their money supporting businesses involved in the sale of alcohol, tobacco, or gambling. The fund family had no existing offerings that qualified…