A Shot Of Optimism

Radnor Lake is only fifteen minutes from my house.  A thirteen hundred acre natural area with wooded trails, you can see deer, herons, turtles, owls and the occasional otter there.  It is [...]

It was the 80’s.  My father, Dr. William G. Crook, was still a practicing pediatrician, writing a childcare column for General Features Syndicate that appeared in newspapers across the country.  [...]

In the 18th and 19th centuries it was common for a community to gather to help a neighbor build a barn. Everyone understood a farmer working alone would have struggled to get the barn up in a [...]

The daily news brings stories of people whose world, as they know it, has been turned upside down, by floods, fires, and loss of loved ones.  Our hearts go out to them.   We may linger for a [...]

Is it wrong to change your mind?  Of course not!  Yet too many of us feel reluctant, guilty or foolish when we change our minds, especially when we have been public about earlier decisions! [...]

Ramin Djawadi is the composer of the amazing score from Game of Thrones – the wildly popular dystopian drama that has enthralled millions. The music is so incredible that concert tours are [...]

When asked the best time to plant a tree, the old sage replied, “Twenty years ago, and today”. So many things in life apply to this. The best time to: Write a book Learn a new language Ask [...]

It was a dreary Saturday night, my husband didn’t feel well and had gone to bed early. Tuning into that 70’s classic with a young, slim John Travolta as Tony and the iconic BeeGees’ soundtrack [...]

J.D. Vance, unlikely graduate of Yale Law School, has written a best-seller, Hillbilly Elegy.  It’s unlikely that J.D. would have graduated from the likes of Yale Law School because he grew up in [...]

At year-end merchants count up their inventory, the stock of their goods.  Taking stock helps them determine where they stand – what they want to order more of and what they want to discontinue. [...]