As you know, we’ve been granted an extension to file our 2019 federal income taxes, which would have been due today. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t start concentrating on our 2020 returns and lining up shoe boxes on the dining room table in which to toss our receipts and hope they’ll remain in chronological order and sort themselves by month and category by the time we begin compiling them, around 11:59 p.m. on April 14, 2021.
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“I don’t play tennis, I don’t play mahjongg and I don’t bake,” Jane Einhorn is telling me one recent afternoon. “I don’t have hobbies. So this is what I do.”
Dozens of companies, nonprofits and individuals are glad she does.
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Hey, what about getting haircuts during this international lockdown? wonders faithful reader Jim Drennan.
For the 15 years prior to his retirement from KCRA-TV News, Jim had been the NBC affiliate’s assignment editor here in the capital, though his background in TV goes much farther back. In an email he sent me the other day, he said, “I would imagine that most barber shops are closed since there’s no way you can give someone a haircut while maintaining that sacred social distance.”
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With Passover beginning this evening at sunset, and Easter arriving this coming Sunday, I thought I’d pass along some helpful hints for those of you who won’t be able to share in-person these totally different holidays with your loved ones or relatives (who are not always the same people, I’ve just been informed).
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The unflappable Virginia Varela admits that she feels “a little as if were in a war zone and that I need to be at the helm.”
Varela’s ship is Golden Pacific Bank, where she’s been president and chief executive officer for seven years. The war zone she and her tram are navigating is the sea of shoals and icebergs caused by the corona virus, threatening the economic floatability of small businesses, which Golden Pacific specializes in.
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