On December 29th in 1970 President Richard Nixon signed the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act into law. Tricky Dick’s...

The New York Yankees lost their eighth consecutive game last night, the feat cementing THE team’s grasp on last place in the American...

The explosion at the Dow chemical plant in Plaquemine, Louisiana on July 14th was so powerful it registered on a seismometer located more...

In the 1980 hit movie Private Benjamin, actress Goldie Hawn plays Judy Benjamin, a young socialite with a dream of marrying well. Which,...

Sherwin-Williams reported earnings last week; THE largest paint manufacturer in history announcing that sales had increased 6.3% during...

Among the most abiding memories of life as the son of a paint dealer, was the wad of bills omnipresent in my father’s front pant pocket....

Driving home from a day behind the counter of my father’s paint store just weeks into THE job, I glimpsed a warehouse with its door ajar....

The New York Yankees stumbled into Major League Baseball’s All-Star break this week losing two of their final three-games before reaching...

Rock and roll legend Steve Miller landed his big-old Jet Airliner in Connecticut last weekend; the Gangster of Love performing a...

My 25-year-old daughter Miranda, the former Buck Wheat and only remaining reason for a Lipton Father’s Day celebration, invited me to...

Leaving the hospital for the third-time in six-weeks my mother expressed her frustration with an unrelenting disorder ravaging her golden...

Spend your career moving an incalculable number of cans of paint and it’s likely you’ll retire with stories of spills; an independent...

My daughter Miranda called me last week. The phones ringing raising immediate concerns considering THE kid and her generation’s...

If you were born on November 2, 1953 your father likely paid $.27 per gallon for the gas he used to fire-up the Studebaker and run your...

Benjamin Moore CEO Dan Calkins was interviewed on CNBC recently live from the floor of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting....

Life’s pace returned to an amble last week after several spent in sprint mode; the added velocity a result of our efforts to keep the...

As with most large cities my current home of Stamford, Connecticut is comprised of a multitude of neighborhoods, each leaving their own...

I’ve blogged previously of the equally immutable and poisonous facts of paint manufacturing: the process' dependence on petro-chemical...

Recently my doctor shared a list of do’s and don’ts which he recommends for "patients your age." But while I appreciated the medical...

When University of Connecticut basketball coach Dan Hurley cut the nets down on his team's championship season last week, he did so from...