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Before I tell this tale, I want to say up front that I will not be naming the company that I believe tried to scam my wife and I, as well as some other things. The reason I’m not naming the company is because overall we can’t prove certain things. Otherwise, this is a true […]

I’ve been on a crusade lately. On my business blog I wrote a post asking why independent consultants don’t get respect. In essence, my point is that small businesses often get overlooked for the big name businesses and explores why it happens. In a way it’s really easy to understand how it happens in some […]

Most of us know someone that’s in insurance. Most of the time it’s someone who sells life insurance and talks about financial options. Sometimes it’s an agent whose focus is car insurance. I’ve always wanted to know more about what some of these folks do, and I got lucky in meeting, then getting to know, […]

Where I live in Liverpool, NY, there are woods that frame my backyard. I’m not an outdoors person, so it’s pretty strange that I’d live in a house with woods. The benefit is that I have no one living behind me, which means we have some privacy. The negative is that we would never know […]

Every year the Liverpool Library in Liverpool NY (for those who don’t live in central New York) puts up art by a black artist that depicts either a historical perspective on things or a sample of what black life is like during Black History Month. This year is no exception, as I found out when […]