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I’m Grateful My Plans Fell Apart

 My beloved Chicago Cubs lost 17 to 1 to the St. Louis Cardinals last weekend, and I’m grateful I was there. I hadn’t planned on going to the game. My wife, Stephanie, and I were primed to go to Madison, Wisconsin, for a long-needed parent getaway. But my sister,

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Paid by the Hour

I received an email recently from Steve Rose, a veteran of the machining wars who was educated in an apprentice program in England during the

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You Bet Your Life

Fifteen years ago, I was in Las Vegas for a business conference in late March and ran into a used machinery dealer from Chicago named

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My Country

My dad and I arrived in Nashville last Thursday afternoon to go to a conference put on by the Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA). After

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First Family

Commitment to family is a bedrock value to my wife Risa and I. It comes before career, money, religion, friends, even the Cubs. It wasn’t

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I Love Cars

I am a car guy and, as I do most years, I strolled through the North American International Auto Show which is held in Detroit

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Better With Age

Are you getting better with age? The question came up for me watching Tom Brady’s virtuoso performance in the Super Bowl. He threw for over

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