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Are You an Investor or a Sucker?

By Tim McCarthy

June 1, 2026

PT Barnum famously said, “there is a sucker born every minute”. If he were still around, he would love the new investment “products” that have become multi-billion-dollar business categories since...

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Truly Funny | Kid Tough

By Tim McCarthy

June 1, 2026

Truly Funny : We no longer wonder who our daughter’s 15-month-old girl, Isla Maeve, will be like when she grows up. Recently she was sitting on the grass at the...

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Truly Funny | Cat Tales

By Tim McCarthy

May 4, 2026

My Uncle John was a prominent physician in Lakewood, Ohio, practicing from the 1930s through the 1970s. His wife Ruth was a sociable woman who loved entertaining. One afternoon, she...

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The Politics of the Rare

By Tim McCarthy

May 4, 2026

This morning I sat in a training room preparing for my tenth year as a precinct election official — my fifteenth election day, give or take. Somewhere between the review...

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Is There a Message in Your Struggle?

By Tim McCarthy

April 7, 2026

Every Sunday morning I settle in with a cup of coffee and read Dr. Mardy Groethe — a writer who has a gift for finding the quote that names what...

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Truly Funny | Daily Shower

By Tim McCarthy

April 6, 2026

Proof of my age: I wear a fitness ring and I’ve noticed lately that my morning shower registers as a “core exercise”

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Truly Funny | Sports Talk

By Tim McCarthy

March 2, 2026

Heard on a sports talk show recently when the host was asked why he doesn’t talk about soccer more often. “Look, if I wanted to watch a bunch of guys...

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Who Is Teaching Whom?

By Tim McCarthy

March 2, 2026

Among many Crosby, Stills and Nash favorites is "Teach Your Children." The first verse tells us, the parents, that we "must have a code that we can live by." The...

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Truly Funny | Checklist: Keys, Wallet, Kids?

By Tim McCarthy

February 9, 2026

This story is probably hard to imagine for younger people but our family would go to church Sunday mornings by packing 6 kids in the back seat and the smallest...

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Are You Trying Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools?

By Tim McCarthy

February 9, 2026

I was terrified of it two years ago. I’d read the announcements that AI was the beginning (or end) of civilization as we know it. And it will change our society,...

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Are We Growing Gracefully?

By Tim McCarthy

January 6, 2026

Author’s Note: Our marketing team, while seeking content for our new website, learned that this newsletter began publishing monthly in 1988. They dared me to repost something from long ago....

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Truly Funny | Mentors & Bosses

By Tim McCarthy

January 6, 2026

Truly Funny: Mentors & Bosses My favorite mentors and bosses used their sense of humor while admonishing me. I can still laugh and even hear their voices remembering their loud...

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Are You A Bozo?

By Tim McCarthy

December 2, 2025

I am. It was decided in the ‘70s when I noticed the title of a Firesign Theatre album: “I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus”. It struck me,...