At 24-years old my daughter Buck Wheat is lamenting her failure to achieve the American dream of home ownership. Some research on Tik Tok...

Two days in advance of spring’s official blossoming, late-winter sun gave Stamford a dose of Vitamin D reminiscent of the warmest season....

With his theories of special and general relativity published in 1905 and 1915 respectively, the works of Albert Einstein replaced those...

Many independent paint dealers engage in outreach to the designer community as part of their regular marketing efforts. Local designers...

While paint history drips all over the Lipton side of the family, paint is only half the story! Actually, only a quarter. Another quarter...

History.... On the third Monday in February each year the United States honors all 46 individuals who have served the country as its...

A 24-years-old my daughter Buck Wheat is no longer obligated to listen to her father’s advice on life management; THE kid more than old...

On February 1st the nation’s largest home improvement retailer Home Depot announced that they will endeavor to hire an additional 100,000...

Nor'easters, the storms which develop over the eastern-third of the United States before surfing up the continent's right coast and off...

In 1974 a 27-year-old song writer named Jim Steinman penned a musical about a futuristic Peter Pan. A rock and roll homage to the boy who would not grow up. But with little interest from producers willing to take a chance on the jukebox musical , “Neverland” sat idle until the composer was asked to review the score with the Music Theater Lab at Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Who also passed opportunity to produce Steinman's score. But in the lab

In 1991 when I published my first column in the Paint Dealer, it was hand-delivered to the 15,000 dealers and industry-mates who subscribed to the magazine. Fulfillment was handled by the United States Postal Service. In 1991 customers of the USPS purchased tracking services on fewer than 500 packages per-day . Where the rest were was anybody’s guess! Failure of paper and ink to provide feedback was another challenge for writers in the pre-smartphone era. Even if the post

“Next year remind me not to get so carried away when I decorate the house for Christmas,” I heard her grumble as she laid the nutcrackers in their cardboard caskets. Preparing the Christmas soldiers for their year-long interment. Or maybe longer even longer, after Covid killed Christmas for the second straight year, putting more grump into the holiday's grumpiest day: undecoration day. Reminding my fianceéic that I had given her exactly that advice just earlier this year,

Buck Wheat wafted into Stamford last week; the trip just long enough to say that she didn’t have time to stay! The three-day slide...

For the second time in as many years the coronavirus beat Santa down the chimney. The virus which causes Covid not waiting for Rudolf to...

If there was one thing I learned growing up in my mother's house, it was that she'll never get bored with telling her children how to...

The strikeout is baseball's emblem to futility. Whether by "swing and a miss" or by watching the ball cross home plate to the umpire‘s...

To fans of college football, the week in November which encumbers the Thanksgiving holiday is known as Rivalry Week. The time reserved...

With applicants to work in a paint store is as rare as a gallon of Pro-Mar 200, dealers continue to share their concerns for the...

“Your car needs four new tires’ came the text message from my 23-year-old daughter Buck Wheat. The girl an expert at selecting pronouns....

In gambling, the over/under refers to the combined scores of the two teams at the end of the game. Leaving the gambler only to determine...