I was ten when I went to my first auction, an actual stone and mortar building that looked like a converted garage. My father and I sat down in brown metal bi-fold chairs with our number and waited to bid. It was an estate auction and the newspaper had mentioned a very large baseball card collection.
I was a huge baseball card fan at a time when baseball cards were big business. Everyone was collecting them. They had packs of fifteen cards at every checkout counter in the grocery stores, …

Ahmed A. Khan’s incredible range is apparent in this collection of fifteen stories.

It is easy to cut back on some expenses. We can cut back on how much alcohol we buy, or the clothes we buy, or our movie club memberships, but it is hard to cut back spending on food. We need food to survive and we like it. At least I do. Hey, we eat three times a day, seven days a week. We might as well enjoy it, right? But enjoying often means spending a lot of money.
College food really taught me how to cook. My first week …

Did you know having a plan can save you money? What does a plan do? If you don’t have a plan for your money, it will disappear. And it will disappear to the places you have the least discipline.
Most of us think that getting a raise will solve our problems. Unfortunately, whether we get one or not is often not up to us. We can certainly work harder and make ourselves valuable, but our bosses may not be able to give us raises. However, we can in effect give our …

By Norman A. Rubin
(When you look into a mirror you do not see your reflection – your reflection sees you. – Japanese proverb)
Something weird had happened in my life a few years back. A strange man in his elder years moved into my house. He just entered with bag and baggage without even uttering an ‘if you please’. I had no idea at first who this stranger was, where he came from, or how he entered, but I do know that he is residing in my house right now. One …