The other day I invented a new pleasure. * * * A new pleasure, you say? I hear your rebuttals now. You’re thinking, is there anything new under the sun? Is there anything Google or AI have not conceived?  Tell us more. I was sitting around reading lines from a poem by Coleridge, “In Xanadu …

Can anything quite compare to the memories of small-town South Georgia Thanksgivings? * * * Thanksgivings were homecoming events. Family members, like refugees from some vast diaspora, came home again for the annual tradition. Like a pilgrimage to Mecca we came, not that our home town of Colquitt, Georgia is a Mecca, but it has …

Pro forma spreadsheet: An Excel generated financial statement populated with actual and enthusiastic hypothetical financial figures designed to extract money from unsuspecting investors and bankers. * * * Times are good, Bobby is flush with cash. But it is a fire in his pocket, burning hot, needing somewhere to multiply itself. He has an idea. …