'The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible." -Bernard Baruch Over a year ago now, I pretty much pulled out of the stock market. I held a firm conviction that the new administration would be incompetent in its fiscal policy, profligate in its tax cuts, reckless overseas, and derisive of the rule of law at home. Check. Check. Check. Check. And yet, our household has left a lot of money on the table by pushing away from the roulette wheel j

And when they ask us, How dangerous it was. Oh! We’ll never tell them, No, we’ll never tell them. We spent our pay in some cafe. And fought wild women night and day, T’was the cushiest job we ever had. And when they ask us, And they’re certainly going to ask us. The reason why we didn’t win the Croix de Guerre. Oh! We’ll never tell them, No! We’ll never tell them. There was a front but damned if we knew where. In years past, I tried to make a point of remembering them all, th

You say, "Goodbye" and I say, "Hello, hello, hello" I don't know why you say, "Goodbye", I say, "Hello, hello, hello" I don't know why you say, "Goodbye", I say, "Hello, hello, hello" I don't know why you say, "Goodbye", I say, "Hello, hello, hello" Hello-ooh! -Paul McCartney An elegaic feel to the morning. Tomorrow will be the last time we awaken to this view. Four months and one week. Where did the time go? Adding to the sense of endings and transitions, we stayed up late (

"And I could find another dream One that keeps me warm and clean But I ain't dreaming anymore, girl, I'm waking up" -Jason Isbell One thing about being laser focused on school these last four months: I've not had time to really ponder what's going on in this political moment. So now I'm sort of like a prairie dog poking his head out of his hole, rubbing his eyes, and looking astonished at what's going on around me. Or maybe Rip Van Winkle, twenty years asleep in the beautiful