MAY BRINGS FLOWERS, MOTHER’S DAY AND POWERFUL WOMEN. This week Bob provides some interesting facts about women in powerful places.

May, moms and flowers. Since this is the month of Mother’s Day and there’s an abundance of blooming flowers, these three naturally go together. As kids, we always scrounged enough money together to buy a card and flowers for mom. My kids always remember their mom on Mother’s Day, and I hope this tradition continues…

WHY THAT FIRST CHRISTMAS LASTS FOREVER

Last night I watched a TV show with a Christmas theme. (Not unusual for this time of year.) One of the people on the show said something that was memorable. (Usually unusual for TV.) He said, as adults, we’re always trying to capture the childhood feeling of our first Christmas, which is why we work…

OWNING THE SEASON OF GIVING THANKS

Since I was a kid, Thanksgiving has always meant the congregation of family. More than any other holiday, the values and traditions of Thanksgiving have had a tremendous impact on my life. I remember how the entire family would always gather around my grandparents’ table. My grandparents owned a dairy farm with plenty of work…

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

Each of us remembers where we were on that fateful day, when the sky was so crystalline clear and blue that it almost hurt your eyes to look up. The morning seemed beautiful around the country — from California, to Washington D.C, to Pennsylvania, to New York. But the gray pall that would capture the…