Mother’s Day-Can You Hear Me Now?By: Mary Fran BontempoTo hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. Once again, the annual homage to mothers is upon us. Next Sunday is Mother’s Day and for weeks now, we’ve been barraged with advertisements encouraging kids and dads to part with their cash to honor mommy with the perfect gift.But the truth is the perfect gift can’t be bought, no matter how much [...]

Of Royal Weddings and Broken Bank AccountsBy: Mary Fran BontempoTo hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below.I’ve got a royal case of the jitters.The impending nuptials later this week of Prince William and Kate Middleton, have me feeling a bit jumpy.William and his lovely bride-to-be are the picture of promise and hope as they happily take on the days leading up to their marriage. Frankly, it’s a stark [...]

Headphones Insure that Silence is GoldenBy: Mary Fran BontempoTo hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below.I want a job with headphones. Lots of jobs with headphones involve really important stuff. Air traffic controllers, TV and movie directors, NASA rocket launchers (I’m sure that’s not their official title, but you know what I’m talking about), recording engineers, sports announcers…the list goes on.And I’m sure some of those jobs would [...]