After a rewarding season giving lectures and workshops in Palm Beach County, I enjoyed a short, three day jaunt to Paris with the French Heritage Society. One of the highlights was the cocktail reception in the Marais at the hotel particulaire of Juan Pablo Molyneaux and his wife, Pilar. His classically-rigorous, decidedly decadent and elegantly eccentric designs are really only available to corporate kingpins, potentates with limitless funds who can afford a much lauded interior designer of international renown. The entry has 30′ ceilings with blue and white wallpaper depicting famous royal residences on three of the walls. One wall has 2′ high porcelain statues of whimsical animals on pliniths. Black and white tiles on the diagonal are a strong design feature in many rooms. Giant Egyptian statues flank the entry to the first room in the house which is his study. You can see at the end of that

ChatGPT can do so many miraculous things, so it is natural to wonder how it will radically change our future. Computers are developing abilities more like humans every week. Let us start by understanding exactly what ChatGPT is. Your computer will tell you that it is an Artificial Intelligence language which can generate human-like text based on similar context and past conversations. In short, it is like a computer that can act like a human being. In what respects can mimic language and organize facts, will continue to progress, and then, how we can we use it to our advantage. To list all the information that ChatGPT can give you is almost impossible, but here is a start. Let us suppose that you are feeling depressed and want to know how to get back to your normal cheerful self. ChatGPT might tell you that one way is to cultivate a

There is no question that watching, listening, or reading the news on TV, on the radio in the newspapers, is not just disappointing, it can become depressing. Just think about the recent news: A vicious war has erupted between Israel and Palestine involving torture; most Americans believe that their political opponents will ruin our country if they are elected; the climate is steadily getting worse; the war in Ukraine grinds on and on; and our national debt increases every year! How can we NOT be unhappy? There is a way. That is to reverse every piece of bad news. But first we should all remember the old newspaper slogan that good news doesn’t sell newspapers. It’s true. If the average American’s pay goes up, it’s buried in the financial section. If wages go down, it may make the front page. Bad news sells. When gasoline prices were going up, that