Do a Google search of “gaslighting” and you’ll find more than four-million results. Chalk it up to the new abnormal in which agitator-in-chief Donald Trump is redefining the English language. His contributions are both expansive and reductive. To be specific,…
ARCHIVE UPDATE [from 4-17-18] — Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. It is the capacity to interrelate with compassion, concern, consideration. With respect to longevity, it is empathetic to appreciate the aging experience, both…
It all started with The Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, Buffalo Springfield and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Since the sixties I’ve been an obsessive consumer of music — first on vinyl, then cassette and for the past 30 years on CD. My selective…
Give credit to the writer of The New York Times article (7-10-19) about the affordable housing rent crisis for older Californians for concluding with the following quote from one 65-year-old resident: “That 10 percent cap doesn’t help most low-income people,…
ARCHIVE UPDATE [from 2-12-19] — The first time this essay posted on Humble Sky, the Comment section was disabled. Probably a random glitch with the server or blog platform. Although … the content did condemn the practices of Google and…
California is woefully unprepared for the needs and demands of the “gray wave” of aging baby boomers. The doom and gloom prognostication for our state in which the “senior citizen” population will double within a decade is expressed by several…
She said “No,” so I naturally assumed she simply didn’t understand what I was asking. Since my initial request to her friend or sister was received with a shrug and something in Spanish. I gestured that I was simply asking…
ARCHIVE UPDATE [from 2-7-17] — “It would be easy to view the islands as distant lands with distant challenges,” Justin Worland wrote in ‘This Island is Sinking’ for TIME Magazine (6-24-19). The essay revealed the struggles to save island nations…
Andrew, my Lyft driver was a nice enough guy. He cheerfully introduced himself as he picked me up at the airport at 1 am. “Nice weather tonight. Where you comin’ from?” (“Detroit,” I say. “Never been,” he says.) A few…
There are some TV commercials so obnoxious the remote’s mute button virtually presses itself. For example, the Allstate spot with the car owner on the phone asking “What?” over and over, escalating in volume and indignation and by the fifth…
