
Skipping the Rules
The college admissions scandal dominated the news and media outlets this past week. Wealthy families paid a college placement specialist large sums of money to ensure their teens’ admission to elite colleges. Those indicted included Hollywood actresses and venture capitalists, fashion designers and vineyard owners, dentists and college coaches. What is going on these days? Have parents lost their minds? Is this a rare occurrence? Or does “acting as if the rules don’t ap


Stay the course
You would never know by looking out my window that we are supposed to “spring forward” this weekend. The recent sound of the snowplow scraping the side of the road along with the chunky clumps of snow being blown off the trees makes it hard to believe winter is going to exit stage left any time soon. Lake Michigan likes to do her thing by creating lake effect snow bands that produce white out conditions. These intermittent squalls make driving a significant challenge, not t