My 1,214th and Final Blog

Eventually, things end. This week is my 14th anniversary, and I feel this is a good time to end this blog that started on February 7, 2012. I started with trepidations about whether I could keep up with a weekly schedule, and immediately started with twice-a-week postings. After 8 ½ years, I switched to once a week and haven’t missed a week during the past 14 years.

I had a lot to say, and still do, but I feel it is time to stop and morph to other ways of expressing my thoughts and dispensing my “sage” comments. Things have changed, with one of them being a different way of expressing views. Social media and platforms like TikTok and Instagram have become standard, particularly for younger people, according to my students. I have been meaning to try some TikTok postings, but I always seem to be distracted. I resolve to get to it this year.

I have a reasonable readership base and will see if I can move them to follow me when I take the plunge and start posting short, pithy videos. As I did when I started this blog and prepared an inventory of a dozen postings to see if I could do it, I will do that with the video presentations. Actually, some of my original blog inventory never made it to be posted. That’s okay, I pushed them aside for something better and more timely. I did the same when I started posting on the Accounting Today website and stopped on June 2, 2025, with my 600th consecutive weekly column. Before I started with Accounting Today, I posted 250 weekly Q&A columns on the CPA Trendlines website, and those became the basis for a few books they published. I am now in my sixth year of weekly Torah commentary that I email to almost 600 people. I have no plans to stop that because I consider that as sharing my Torah study, which I seem to be increasing my time with.

This blog filled a personal need allowing me to express my opinions on many things that weren’t specifically business related, to share book reviews and other forms of entertainment I enjoyed, to sadly write some obits of people I was close to and to provide a reservoir of “free” information to clients and business associates based on tax and financial concerns they had or questions they asked me. With 1,214 blogs, I have a considerable database of information and have reposted many of them as they once again became timely or based on the situation or season. I will continue to repost them, probably on LinkedIn or redo them orally for TikTok or Instagram.

I still get many questions or requests for information, and most of them get a reply with a link to something I posted. I will continue to do this as the questions arrive in my Inbox, and here is my email address: [email protected]. Also, when you email me, include your phone number in case a quick call is more appropriate to respond to your question.

Posting the blog is a collaboration with talented support from Withum’s Marketing, Digital Marketing and Social Media Teams, especially Ruby Castañeda  and Molly Fleisig, with whom I worked most recently on these weekly postings and perennial support from Heather Campisi and Tanina Khanuja. I thank them and also Sarah Cirelli, who got me started with the www.partners-network.com blog, and Don Meyer, the Chief Growth Officer of the New Jersey Society of CPAs, who held my hand for my very first blog postings, which were on the Society’s site.

Things change, and I like to keep up with the changes. I always have, and I have a couple of boxes of awards to back this up. I now think the time is right to end this weekly blog, but as far as I can see “the best is yet to come!” Thank you to everyone who has read something I posted here or who has provided me with information and ideas, and I am grateful that I was able to help many of you when you needed some help.

Adieu…for now.