Nicholas Hoffman and Company

Fall is officially here. For my wife and me, it came with something that is apparently quite rare these days—an invitation to dinner. We were invited by the parents of our daughter’s good friend to a home-cooked meal at their house. Until then, our conversations had been limited to quick chats in each other’s doorways during pickups and drop-offs. Before dinner, after the kid...

If you are a parent or grandparent, the odds are that you have had to deal with a child going through the time in their lives lovingly referred to as the “terrible twos.” Parents who have lived through this will confess that it was not much fun. During the terrible twos, the main choice of word for a young child is “no.” Moreover, the child realizes for the first time that th...

Last week the U.S. Treasury auctioned $70 billion in 5-year notes. By any conventional measure, this was a weak auction in which buyers needed concessions:

Upon returning from a trip this summer, my family was surprised to find that the smoke alarms in our house had staged a revolt. All of them had been installed together. Therefore, they all reached the end of their 10-year service life simultaneously and were diligently chirping to inform us of that fact. We consoled our frightened dog and accepted that we would be replacing t...

I started working on this blog on Friday, the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. I wanted and intended to commemorate that day to honor the victims and share the anger and sadness I still carry today. But I soon realized I wasn’t up for the task. My writing skills are not sufficient to do justice to such an impactful event.

In recalling 9/11, I revisited t...