In 1960, Lena Spencer opened her coffeehouse in Saratoga Springs. The world grew tall around her place, and by 1961, Bob Dylan played here on the same stage, then Don McLean visited before his “American Pie” boom. …

This might come across as marketing for my upcoming appearance on the historic Caffè Lenas stage, but I promise you, it’s not. …

author of “A New Way to Wealth” and “World Inc” In today’s super hyper media savvy world, you are encouraged — if you are a strong or an aspiring women or minority — to “live out loud.” You are encouraged, as you should be, to “lean into” life, to strut…

by Bruce Piasecki, author of the creative memoir MISSING PERSONS, and a new book “A New Way to Wealth: The Power of Doing More with Less” When Senator George Mitchell had just released his memoir, The Negotiator (published by Simon and Schuster near his 81st birthday), I met him at…

by Bruce Piasecki, author of “A New Way to Wealth: The Power of Doing More with Less” and “World Inc” In a translation of Boethius’ Consolation made by Alfred the Great about one thousand years ago, the dominant social classes were defined, with robust sexism in tow, as “men of…

by Bruce Piasecki, a proud Slavic-American Slavic peoples know that dissent is patriotic. That may be a lingo and part of the logic of the smart lawyers of the ACLU, too. Yet Slavic people have lived these principles the past 200 years. For them it is a imperative. We never…

by Bruce Piasecki, author, business owner, and life-long reader of Dylan and Blake My friends, come round. Slow up some — put that handheld down. Yes, that rhymes, “round” and “down” in a typical Dylan cadence. Be around now to imagine putting Bob Dylan. …

by Bruce Piasecki, author of memory-based books When my mother was going gradually blind, I chose to take a trip down to Long Island, where she still insisted on navigating her home with pride. The sky was lovely, as were my favorite wind-swept beaches. I recall at will the salty…

It was the summer of 1975. I was a National Scholar from Cornell on a Lane Cooper scholarship in London to study Shakespeare. The scholarship covered enough to have me in residence with the great literary historian Garreth Lloyd Evans; and this gifted living stipend — as I was still…