If you're not careful life can push you down and take your lunch money, and sometimes the best we can do is get back up, look life in the eye, and then run away. Or, maybe there's a better way...
by Brian Ritchie March 2026 We recently threw out a 40-year-old refrigerator. While this is a fairly common occurrence across the country and wouldn’t normally be considered newsworthy, it was not easy on me, given my ancestral heritage as a Scot—which, as you may know, is a breed of men who end up in a lot of fights, mostly because they like to wear skirts to pubs. But a lesser-known quality of the Scottish male is that he is frugal. Or you might use the word cheap. As a res