“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas A. Edison
Throughout my career I have been surrounded by people who mentored me to do things “the right way” and encouraged me ...
As I round the corner from Thanksgiving and enter the season of light I often pause to consider the many things in life that I am thankful for.
I don’t think it matters a bit which religion or holiday...
Robin Trimingham
“Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way.
As much as it is socially correct to pretend that you don’t have a temper, I have...
Changing as you age. “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”. Translated into English, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s quote reads, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
I have alwa...
As those of you who follow Olderhood will know, my business partner Bill Storie is a Scottish chartered accountant and the undisputed financial whiz kid in the family.
This is good in that it allevia...
One of the things I like best about writing this column is hearing from readers of all walks of life. Quite a few of you have reached out to me with comments or ideas for articles and these thoughts a...
As those of you who are regular readers of this column will know, I subscribe to the idea that life itself is a journey and that each of us is free to choose the path that we follow and how we interac...
It was the pampered and hopelessly out of touch Marie Antoinette in France in the 18th century who announced that the solution to everyone’s economic problems was to eat cake because, after all, who d...
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less travelled by.”
— Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
As I was driving the South Shore Road to Southampton on Saturday, I happened upon a traffi...
No matter what the subject is, everyone always says, “Don’t look back”.
For the most part I would agree with this.
Looking back is not for the faint of heart, because you either discover things that ...
