Category Archives: Just for fun

For some blog posts, I was looking around for famous or important bankruptcy cases arising out of Haverhill, Mass. — and sort of came up empty! Lawrence and Methuen hit the news with the Malden Mills fire and that firm’s subsequent bankruptcy. The Andover and North Andover areas were bankruptcy central for a few years […]

The New Yorker has taken notice of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s recent bankruptcy filing, noting in the magazine’s May 2nd edition that “though the board of the Philadelphia Orchestra has decided to declare bankruptcy, the ensemble remains its magnificent self. At Carnegie Hall, Charles Dutoit, its chief conductor, leads its musicians in Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” and […]

Thomas G. Donlan has an interesting opinion piece in Barron’s this week about how the opponents (and sometimes) the supporters of the federal budget cuts being debated in Congress this month are referring to the budget slashing as draconian measures. Which begs the question, where does this talk of draconian measures really come from? Or, […]

If the endless winter of 2011 has got you down, here are a few links that might help: Ten winter depression busters: (Psych Central). How to stay mentally tough: (MLive.com). Outsmarting the elements: (Boston Globe). Stay warm out there!   By Doug Beaton

Baseball’s World Series starts tonight, featuring the American League champion Texas Rangers against San Francisco. We have been following the Rangers all summer, as they are the only North American sports franchise to emerge from bankruptcy protection recently. And emerge they did, winning the West Division and eliminating the Yankees for the pennant. It is […]

A nice profile of Hamilton – Wenham high school running coach Steven Sawyer by Boston Globe correspondent Doug Saffir shows how the coach stresses the importance of positive thinking instead of the won-lost record. The result? His teams’ records are truly impressive; the girls team has won 68 Cape Ann league meets in a row […]

Baseball’s Texas Rangers have been the only North American sports team to file for bankruptcy recently, and I have been following their exploits, both in the courtroom and on the field, over the summer. The Rangers are shaping up as an ideal bankruptcy redemption story, as they have just clinched the American League’s West Division […]

How could a downbeat topic like filing for bankruptcy ever jive with the upbeat world of positive thinking and self-motivation? Maybe it’s not a natural fit, but just consider that each bankruptcy case is for someone a chance to start over, with the result of the re-start as uncertain as any other. Or to put […]