To fans of college football, the week in November which encumbers the Thanksgiving holiday is known as Rivalry Week. The time reserved...

With applicants to work in a paint store is as rare as a gallon of Pro-Mar 200, dealers continue to share their concerns for the...

“Your car needs four new tires’ came the text message from my 23-year-old daughter Buck Wheat. The girl an expert at selecting pronouns....

In gambling, the over/under refers to the combined scores of the two teams at the end of the game. Leaving the gambler only to determine...

In the year 2000 the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), a Boston think tank which studied the problem of post-consumer paint waste,...

Wiki defines “Upstate New York” as the area of the state lying north of the New York City Metropolitan area. Though most New Yorkers I...

It’s said that when Cleopatra was called to meet Mark Anthony in 41 BCE, the Egyptian queen traveled to meet the Roman general on a...

It’s hard not to notice what the paint business has done to my countenance! A fully-receded hairline and wrinkled forehead the most...

In 1936 my grandfather Jack Lipton would have been working 72-hours a week behind the counter at Tremont Paint. The second of...

Ask a dozen New Yorkers, “who has the City’s best bagels?” and you may get thirteen answers! For me the top bagel is H & H. But it's a...

Like most independent paint dealers I speak with these days, Augusta Paint and Decorating is setting sales records. Owner Leslie Merritt...

When I sold my two New York City-based paint stores Tremont Paint in October of 2019, the timing had me looking prescient. Mere months...

My nephew Andrew and his soon to be better half Erica are scheduled to get married on October 16. Their third attempt at walking down...

The September 11th we were supposed to have in 2001 included Panda's first day of pre-school. Panda of course is my now 23-year-old...

It seems that with each mention of Benjamin Moore CEO Dan Calkins, my readership goes up. To me, Dan is more than just a good luck charm;...

When the guest in room one, my fianceeic Gaetana’s son Michael, checked out of Hotel Lipton to spend a week away from the madness, we...

The former home of Tremont Paint's Broadway location is practically no more to me than a post office box where I collect correspondence...

Mount Mansfield, the tallest mountain in Vermont, peaks at 4395 feet above sea level. The east side of the mountain, which towers more...

“Can I take the Jeep?” The daily request coming from my daughter Buck Wheat. Home for the summer with nothing to drive except her own...

The last time I bought a one-inch “chip” brush, they would have cost $.19 each and come in a box of 48. Chip brushes of course are the...