Your Failure to Plan Ahead Is Not My Emergency

As many of you know, I have been involved in the planning and execution of a number of Podcamps to date, and I’ve also been involved in providing onsite services to people with disabilities at the Super Bowl in the past. Being part of these large events,...

Here We Go Again

Karl Rove refused to testify today before Congress.  Should we be surprised?  No.  He claims he will talk informally and off the record- that way Congress can have the information they seek, yet Rove cannot be held accountable for what he actually says. The contempt...

Being Smart With Money

One of the things I think we do REALLY poorly in this country is teaching our kids how money works. I didn’t get a course in economics until college, but most of the best lessons I learned about money were through various jobs. One was working as a customer...

Helping Others Out

How do we decide when and how to help other people? We’re all asked to donate to different causes daily.  Over the past month alone, I have been asked to give to Habitat for Humanity, The Nature Conservancy, Doctors Without Borders, The Smile Train, the local...

What the Ebay Ruling Means to the Rest Of Us

This morning, Bloomberg news announced the following: “EBay Inc., the world’s largest Internet auctioneer, was ordered to pay LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA 40 million euros ($63 million) over claims it didn’t do enough to stop the sale of...