Alan's Commentaries - Page 3 of 16

KNOWING WHEN IT’S TIME

I will turn 70 next March, and for the first time in my life, full retirement feels not only possible, but perhaps appropriate. I’ve spent more than 53 years building and working in…

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THE MANUSCRIPT WAS THE EASY PART

You say you just finished your manuscript — surely a bestseller? You spent months, maybe years, writing it, and are already imagining the blockbuster movie adaptation. Your mind probably wanders toward mountains of money…

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AN INTERRUPTED BONANZA

Last Sunday morning, I was home lamenting the one shot I should have made before I lost a golf tournament… by one point. After breakfast, I turned on a rerun of Bonanza, a show…

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THE CUBS, AS ALWAYS

Note – written in mid-March, before the season started. It was the English poet Alexander Pope who penned the words, “Hope springs eternal,” back in 1732—one hundred fourteen years before the New York…

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