Sunday Newscape Magazine

This is the time of year I like to let out a great big guffaw when I think about what an honor it is to pay taxes.

I’m not kidding. When I send my money to the government, those guys and gals in D.C. return the favor by providing me with some genuine belly laughs. That’s because they find such creative and amusing ways to spend my hard-earned cash.

Einstein said, “Time is just an illusion.” This past week has flown by with such a blur it seems as if time is standing still. The endless hours spent here in my empty house has brought some wonderful healing in my mind during this lonely period.

As small business owners, we know that every day our business is open is a day we defy the odds. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) reports that two-thirds of new businesses survive at least two years, and about 44 percent survive at least four. SBA researchers note that these numbers don’t differ greatly by industry. Therefore, no matter what market you’re serving with your small business, you have about the same chances of survival as everyone else.

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that our culture really has it in for the ex-wife. On TV, movies, even literature, ex-wives are portrayed as these shrewish, nagging, money-hungry women who obviously made their ex husbands’ lives so miserable, that he had no choice but to leave her. And being an ex wife myself, I take offense to this misleading, one-sided, completely false representation.