“It turns out that for all their diversity, the strikingly successful groups in America today share three traits that, together, propel success. The first is a superiority complex – a deep-seated belief in their exceptionality. The second appears to be the opposite – insecurity, a feeling that you or what you’ve done is not good […]

Why does some food taste better the next day? Pizza, Chinese, the sandwich I just ate… Days later, after marinating in their own juices, what might have been “eh” the first time around is positively delicious later. My mother was not a good cook. I’m not saying she had no admirable features. She was a […]

Mama never told me it would be like this. As a matter of fact, my mother still doesn’t know how the world works. Like most people, she wants to believe you work hard, marry right, put your nose to the grindstone and it all works out. But it doesn’t really happen that way at all. […]

I read Warren Haynes played “Come and Go Blues” at the Gregg Allman tribute. It’s hard to convey how big “Brothers and Sisters” was. Duane died in ’71, after Bill Graham had them close the Fillmore and their double album tour-de-force was released. But still, most people didn’t know who the Allmans were. No, that’s […]