Written By Sherwood Kohn Several eons ago, when I was a teenager, I drove my parents nuts by tying up the family telephone for what they claimed was “hours,” talking to my friends (mostly girls). Now, almost every teenager has...

Written By Sherwood Kohn The amount of money spent by and for teenagers on consumer goods last year, according to the market research organization Packaged Facts, was in excess of $200 billion. That is more than half of all...

Written By Sherwood Kohn What happened to “the future?” Not that there will be no future. It is just that no one seems to use the phrase these days, preferring to use “going forward” instead. Or maybe we are seeing a lack of...

Written By Sherwood Kohn Six years ago (I can’t believe it’s been that long), my sons dragged me grumbling and muttering out of journalistic retirement to start up this magazine. The year 2004 was a precarious time for print...

Written By Sherwood Kohn Megan Webb is very talented and very grateful. For openers, the 30-year-old, tall, wiry Westminster housewife and mother of two, who has only a high school education and hardly any formal training as a...

Written By Sara Wright Judging by the airplane charm that Michele McGuire wears on a necklace and the enthusiasm she displays when she talks about flying, it’s easy to see how much she loves being a pilot. After earning a black...

Written By Sherwood Kohn It has been four years since we started Carroll Magazine. We started publishing in good times, or at least most of us thought things were bearable. Now times are tough. The new president, Barack Obama,...

Written By Sherwood Kohn The other day, I parked my car in front of Starbucks and went in for a cup of coffee. When I returned, I found that my car – barely a year old – had been wounded. When I stopped gnashing my...

Written By Sherwood Kohn “By Heart” is a one-man band times three. No, not like the guys with bass drums strapped to their stomachs, cymbals tied on their knees and harmonicas wired to their mouths. This trio is high tech....