Between you and I, it does. But when I put the question to a friend recently, I was answered with a demurral. “Not so much,” they said. If you’ve read this far, you may have flagged two lapses in grammar and word usage. “Between you and I” sounds right but is dead wrong. And, given [...]

Fast forward to 2013. Smartphone sales outpace PCs, and more Americans are checking e-mail on the go than they are at their desktops. For the wealthy, that future is already here. The rich are twice as likely as others to use the “smart” part of their smartphones. According to the Spectrem Group, not only are [...]

Contrasting “Wall Street” with “Main Street” is such a popular rhetorical trick it lapses into cliché, and I try to avoid it. These days, however, I can’t. You see, I LIVE on Wall Street. I see the sun rise and set from my apartment window with a view of the roofline of the historic Federal [...]

Like most high school graduates, I entered my freshman year of college with no idea about what I wanted to do when I “grew up.” I knew I was a good listener (a rare but valuable skill, it turns out) and had a knack for giving good advice to friends and family—when they asked for [...]