But with regard to concepts, I’m ambivalent. I think some concepts should go on and on, but there’s one that I have struggled with over the years — Marriage. So, for your amusement and to continue my thinking on marriage, a concept that goes “on and on,” I’ve written “People I Should Have Married – or maybe I did.”

Another concept that is troublesome to me is the literary (maybe) and lucrative (probably) concept of the “Complete Idiot’s Guide” Series. It is especially problematic to me since I seem to have been a behind the scenes contributor to “The Complete Idiots Guide to A Successful Family Business.” Certainly not the best in that series! However, there are some Idiots Guides that could be useful. Please add your own.

Continuing my foray into poetry, I’ve added three limericks to the previous three attempts at haikus. I think the limericks are funny!

Finally in Friends of Judy, we have three takes on “Bull(s) in or out of various pastures.”

Bob Chernow submits a “true haiku,” Brigett Owens writes on nail salons, and Paul Karofsky on succession.

I hope you enjoy reading the December 2023 issue of Olive.

Judy Green