Glenn Rifkin

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Glenn Rifkin

Giulia walker for the boston globe“Your refrigerator is covered with love,” my friend Sal said, perusing the pictures that obliterated the entire front surface of the fridge. We had indeed turned a mundane household appliance into a photo gallery, a massive collage of family images bathed in kitchen light amid the countertops and sink. There’s my mom smiling and waving from beside me in my prized 1994 Mazda Miata convertible, a joyous moment frozen in time.

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin

By Glenn Rifkin Imagine: It's a brisk, bright autumn Saturday morning on a green field in the suburbs. You arrive in your striped shirt, white baseball cap, and black running shoes with a whistle looped around your neck. Out on the field are a couple dozen middle-school-age boys in full football regalia, helmets gleaming in the morning sun. It's game time, and this youth-league contest is one of many thousands getting underway around the country.

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin

By Glenn Rifkin The late afternoon sun turned the sky over the beach a vivid yellow. A brisk, stiff wind had been blowing all day, producing huge rollers that crested toward the beach, each topped with a vaporous spray as it crashed to the sand. My wife and I were hunkered down at the edge of the dunes trying to escape the frigid wind that had forced us to don winter parkas and wool hats in the middle of September.

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin

By Glenn Rifkin The Former president and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant had just completed his memoir, days before his death in 1885, but didn't have a publisher. As it turned out, his friend and editor, Mark Twain, had a plan. Instead of accepting a publisher's small royalty, the famed author and raconteur promoted the book by fanning out 10,000 former Union soldiers to go door-to-door. The upshot: The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant became the first mega-selling presidential autobiography.

2 months ago | kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin

By Glenn Rifkin When Henry Ford started his automotive company in 1903, he partnered with a pair of fiery, bar-brawling brothers named John and Horace Dodge. The two machinists became integral to turning Ford into an industry magnate. They even attended his son's wedding in 1916. The day after the ceremony, though, the Dodge brothers filed a lawsuit against Ford Motor Company.