Ah, February! The month of love! No, not that touchy-feely romantic mush that leads to flowers and candlelit dinners. I'm talking about real passion--for high-tech wizardry! And I don't just mean "boys and their toys." Women can catch the bug

Happy New Year! It's time, once again, to take a clean slate and resolve to write upon it a new chapter of insurance achievement!In the January issue, I usually suggest resolutions I believe will prove valuable to insurance folks. But what good is

Welcome to December! Every child and insurance person knows what that means--presents!And what better present than the future! So away with that gloom and doom of present difficulties and past disasters. Don't dot another binder, Bob Cratchit!

Fall is here and winter is approaching. Soon Thanksgiving will arrive, and you know what that means: Schoolchildren will be having turkey-coloring contests, local organizations will be fundraising with turkey shoots and houses will burn to the ground

Years ago, it seemed every town had a local television station that aired a show designed to scare kids out of their wits. The format was always the same. Some local personality or station employee would draw the short straw and get made up as a

Ah, September! The breath of fall first appears in the air, football fans reach for the remote and parents celebrate their "I truly love them, but enough already" children's return to school. Judging from an e-mail containing several agent inquiries

Welcome to August, when the weather is hot, the BBQ savory and the iced tea cold--and when sometimes brains get fried. No question that many of the weirdest claims seem to arise spontaneously from the dog days.Which is why I like to backlog

Welcome to July, the month in which we celebrate Independence Day! While we launched a fusillade of bottle rockets, though, the day also should have reminded us of how we all too often jump to the wrong conclusions about how to best serve our