Hyde Park's Corner

If you look around the world today, and around the U.S., too, there are a lot of reasons to question just how welcoming, trusting and gene...

Even those whose identity is shaped by the most common human experiences, forged in pain by the bluntest instruments of life--the common car...

The song " The Hammer Holds " always moves me. It's a favorite. The lyrics and vocal are by Bebo Norman. It begins as though ...

Long-time friend and former Textron colleague, Rick Watson, offers a direct, well-considered viewpoint in response to my last post and co...

Mr. Buffet: While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega...

This is a great review and opinion by good friend, Sandy Parker, retired corporate treasurer, former area president of the League of Women...

From the Sufi Poet Hafiz , as rendered by Daniel Ladinsky: Not With Wings (1)   Here soar Not with wings,  But with your moving han...

Most often we do not get to choose the cards we are dealt; but we do get to choose how we play them. Its all about the play of the hand. A...

Organizational leadership matters. It is the pre-eminent factor in an organization's success. And its failure or weakness most often ...

For you Onion fans out there--and anyone else with a satirical sense of humor--this piece at the expense of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is ...

I support deficit reduction and a responsible, accountable budgeting process as much as anyone, anywhere. It is essential, and the future ...

From The Wall Street Journal Op-Ed pages, "The debt-limit hobbits should also realize that at this point the Washington fracas they...

I have questions, deficit reduction questions, but can find no answers. Apparently, no one has the answers, not satisfactory ones, useful o...