Personality Blog

Would you like to makes tons of money, drive a low slung sports car and visit exotic locations? Perhaps your key to the good life is writing mystery stories. The best writers are unlikely to need help from the President’s stimulus package. A best selling author can make millions–just ask Rowling. I believe she owns Scotland. You may very well have what it takes to run with the big dogs of murder–Dean Koontz, Agatha Christie, Patricia Cornwell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne …

Do you envy Captain Jack Sparrow and wish you had his freedom from the mindboggling technology of the 21st Century. Would you rather set sail and challenge the wind, the sea and various monsters? According to Pirate expert Dr. Peter Leeson of George Mason University, “Unlike their Somali successors, early 18th Century pirates, men like Blackbeard, “Black Bart” Roberts, and “Calico” Jack Rackam, weren’t only thieves. They were also early experimenters with some of the modern world’s most cherished values, such as liberty, democracy, and …

This is a scary time for our country, oops, let me change that – this is a scary time for our planet. Past economic mistakes are coming back to bite us and we are trying to stay afloat until the cycle ends. If you know financial history you are probably less concerned. Yes, times are tough, but these cycles happen every few years and they cycle back out again. Hang tough, folks!

For now, we are all trying to do what we can to survive the present. In fact, we are …