The LAST Word

  The 1776 Retreat will be release on Sept. 17 . The book honors the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and comes out on the anniversary of the U.S. Constitution. Pre-order sales are available now at amazon.com/author/louiseharris. Buy your copy for Christmas sales or for fall reading.    It's Labor Day weekend, the end of summer. When I was young, we didn't go back to school until the Tuesday after Labor Day. Football began this weekend. We did have to go into the second week in June, but summer still began on Memorial Day weekend. That was when all the shops opened in Cape May, N.J. My parents opened the house that weekend or the weekend before Memorial Day, so we officially started summer days then. The last two weeks of school weren't much in the learning department anyway.  On Labor Day weekend, we would go the beach one final time. Then, we would close up the house for the fall and winter. Although autumn in Cape May wa...

 We coming up on our 250th anniversary . Freedom is important to small businesses. Without the right to build a company anyway you choose, small business owners would not be successful. In some countries, workers who run businesses do it for the state instead of their own prosperity. In the United States, we have the right to property and the pursuit of happiness. Here are reasons why small business owners should be grateful that they opened their companies here in America. 1. No Advertising Restrictions -- Except for a few industries that are regulated, companies can advertise they way they want. They can write their ads that's put their companies in the best light even if they aren't 100 percent honest.  In addition, business owners can advertise on any medium. They can choose social media advertising, newspaper or online publication ads, radio or podcast ads, television or YouTube ads, or digital advertising. 2.  Potential Profits -- Small business owners can earn h...

Every summer when I was young until my parents sold the house, we would go to Cape May, N.J. The house was built by my great-grandmother. It had two three-bedroom apartments, a one-bedroom apartment over the garage and a studio under the garage apartment and next to the actual garage. My grandmother lived upstairs until she died. Then, my parents would rent the upstairs apartment and studio for summer rentals. The garage apartment was rented all year. On Memorial Day, we would go down for the long weekend to open the house for the summer and get it ready to rent. It was a lot of work, and it usually rained that weekend. We didn't get much time at the beach that weekend, but we did get some beach time. Just being there was more relaxing that being at home. The ocean was cold too. My mother's birthday is May 29, which meant it usually fell near Memorial Day weekend, so we usually celebrated it. Her favorite cake was a strawberry shortcake, which we usually made for ...