A Practical Guide to Surviving this Moment in the COVID Pandemic — The Best Words The rule changes came swiftly. The CDC guidance continued to pin masking to your county of residence. Governors in New York and New Jersey were set to back off their masking guidelines, dragging their populous states into the majority of the country. The City of Cincinnati, which had recently extended…

As background, the Episcopal Church uses a governance structure that features a Vestry, roughly a dozen church members elected by the congregation. I am in my second term on the Vestry at Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati. In our current practice, each month a member of Vestry is asked to…

Why wasn’t the President of the United States filed under ‘history?’ Because he was black. When books about President Barack Obama arrived at the Bard High School, Early College library in Queens, New York, they were coded as 300 (Social Science) instead of 900 (History). …

Several years ago, on a summer workday, I got a call from the father of a student. He had recently gotten custody of his son, who I will call Deon, after Deon’s mother died from a bout with a particularly fast-acting cancer. He was asking if I could write a…

Recently I worked for a temporary agency contracted with a national bank based in Cincinnati. They processed documents for a specific department within the United States government. It’s detailed work, with precision required in recording names, addresses, and ID numbers. Needless to say, there were lots of rules and bureaucracy…

I am not scintillated by the details of tax policy, so when I first heard the term owner compensation replacement, I paused just to think about what that might mean. In general I am unlikely to engage in a lengthy debate about the nuances of tax rates, or shelters for…

Whether you are struggling to manage your daily life, a small business, a mid-size nonprofit, or a large corporation, you need to establish rules and expectations for how things will work. …

The doves on my porch overcome stupidity with hard work. So can we. — Every spring, in a much anticipated migration, the birds return. A frenzy erupts among the inhabitants, and a dispute. Are they beautiful? Are they a nuisance? Residents point and debate. People gather to take pictures and share them with the world. No, these are not swallows to Capistrano, but mourning…