by admin | Feb 4, 2024 | Books, Reporting
S.W. O’Connell is a retired US Army intelligence officer who has served in a wide variety of counterintelligence assignments around the world. Calling on both his experience and his love of history he has written a series of spy novels set during the American...
by admin | Oct 3, 2023 | Books, Tax
So last week I went to Manhattan with my daughter Kaitlyn. That involves a lot of walking. We stayed at the Sheraton in Weehawken NJ, where Alexander Hamilton fell in a duel with Aaron Burr, and took the ferry in the evening and then the morning. Using the twenty...
by admin | Mar 14, 2023 | Books, Tax, Uncategorized
Beyoncé’s announcement of her Renaissance World Tour last month has triggered an odd tax discussion as you can see from the tweet below. Beyoncé fans are cashing out their 401Ks to buy her tour tickets. Beyoncé announced her upcoming world tour on Feb. 1, and...
by admin | Apr 21, 2022 | Books
When it comes to book movie adaptations, the one that always pops into my mind is Lord of the Rings. Overall I was pretty pleased with it for whatever that is worth. I didn’t miss Tom Bombadil, but I greatly missed the scouring of the Shire. I would actually...
by admin | Jan 24, 2022 | Books, History
It took something really big to tear me away from The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert Gross. And the big thing was the release of Paradise Atop The Hudson by Sammy Juliano. Fascinating as I find the world Gross writes about – Concord MA in the...
by admin | Nov 15, 2021 | Books, History
The visit of Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834) to the United States at the invitation of President James Monroe was an epic event. And in the midst of a bitter Presidential contest, Lafayette stood as a symbol of...
