Jethro was a dog of the German Shepherd persuasion, I had adopted at 2 years old from a rescue in the Poconos, weighing in at 120 pounds of pure guardian fur angel.

I’ve developed a theory since I started writing this column almost a year ago. A person will have many stories to tell in the span of their lifetime, but the most important two will invariably be the story of how they found their true work and the story of how they found their true love.

Neighborhood stores are disappearing at an alarming rate. I used to love going to places where the proprietor knew my name, especially when I needed some kind of advice.

The more I listen to the stories people tell of their lives, the more proof I continually find that resilience is crucial to all, but especially to entrepreneurs.

Cecily Laidman started taking voice lessons in high school. She studied to be an opera singer. But she says, “I realized I couldn’t keep a straight face for that long!” I know what she means. I love musicals, if not opera, but the absurdity of someone breaking into song at every pivotal moment in life, makes me giggle uncomfortably through my enjoyment.

If you want to know what it’s like for someone to wish you dead, try writing a personal check with a line behind you at Giant. We live in a time when speed is paramount. It wasn’t always like that.

A playwright creates a world in their mind. Later an audience lives in the world the playwright created and feels what the playwright wanted them to feel and draws the conclusions the playwright wanted them to draw. Hopefully.

Sometimes passion is all that’s required to create a successful business, and formal education and training is less important or not necessary at all.

The thread that seems to run through the lives of everyone I’ve written about regardless of age is the continual demand life makes on us to reinvent ourselves.

Once when I was a student at Temple, a professor told us, “Whatever you do professionally, you can do it for the government.” He made us aware the federal government is the largest employer in the United States.

I would rather give birth than go to the dentist. Do you remember “Little Shop of Horrors” (1986)? Do you remember Steve Martin singing “You’ll be a dentist! You have a talent for causing pain?” I do.

I could never be a police officer for many reasons. Too old, too short, too devoted to a sedentary lifestyle—I could go on. But most of all, I’d just be too scared to run toward gunfire while …

When the pandemic hit, Kevin Jones was working in management at a restaurant. Kristin was a stay-at-home mom. Kevin hardly ever got to spend time with his family. They started looking for a new way of life. In one of those turning points when a curse turns out to be a blessing, Kevin was let go from his job.

“Everyone and everything has a story and if you’re fortunate you may have more than one,” according to photographer, or more accurately, “visual storyteller” Kelli Abdoney. “My job is capturing the hidden stories of places, people, and experiences that define who we are and who we are becoming.”

“Transforming dreams into buildings. It’s what we do,” is the motto of Ford 3 Architects, a woman-owned business, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The three partners that make up Ford …

I’ve been thinking lately that there are some periods in life that are often especially hard to navigate, young adulthood and middle age. And maybe every period in between and after.

I recently discovered Aurora Bistro, a hidden gem located between the post office and the wine and spirits store in Buckingham Green Shopping Center on York Road. And its delightful proprietor.

I can’t find it in myself to appreciate the finer points of automobiles. I like a car that can take me safely from place to place, preferably with seat warmers and a CD player.

Comedian Tim Conniff has observed just how much things have changed with kids these days. “My neighbor’s 14-year-old daughter goes on and on about how Aruba is her favorite island. When I was …

We were all forced onto alternate paths during the COVID pandemic. But for some of us, like Thornton “Thor” Giese, the rerouting was especially dramatic. “I was all set to start a job teaching …