A Bona Fide Birthday for Texas Inn | Weekly Report for April 18, 2025
I don’t remember much from my four years of Latin, but a few short phrases have stayed with me through the years. I have committed many age-old adages to memory as…
The Pursuit of Happiness | Weekly Report for March 28, 2025
In 2011, the United Nations passed Resolution 65/309, which led to the creation of the World Happiness Report. It’s a joint effort by the UN and Oxford University with data from 140 countries collected by Gallup. The…
98% Of All Business Is Small Business | Weekly Report for March 14, 2025
Longtime readers of the Weekly Report will know I have stated “98% of all business is small business” on many occasions: in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, and last year, the phrase popped…
The Cost of a :30 Second TV Spot | Weekly Report for February 14, 2025
Every year for the past 15 years, I have watched the Super Bowl at home, on the couch, with a notepad and my laptop. I watch the ads more than the game….
5th Anniversary of COVID-19 in America | Weekly Report for January 17, 2025
On January 17th, 2020, one month after the outbreak of Coronavirus (later called SARS COVID-19), the CDC began screening airline passengers in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles arriving from Wuhan, China. It didn’t work. Covid arrived…