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…
What follows is a content outline for an idea I have for a children’s book. It still needs work and will almost certainly go through many more iterations before I either consider it done, or relegate it to my nebulous…
Sports can be incredibly challenging, even or perhaps particularly for those who perform at the highest levels. Great baseball players are fortunate to get one hit in three times at bat, one homer for every dozen times up, more hits…
It’s comfortable, hanging out with an old friend — you understand one another, speak the same language; and differences in age, culture and personality only make time together more entertaining and worth the while. Spending a month traveling the United…
This is epic, breaking news. A matter of fact. Scientists from across the globe on April 10 pin-pointed and photographed the proverbial black hole (not the one, however, that ate your baseball card collection, homework, retainer, socks, etc.) where things…
What if experience did inherently translate to wisdom? As our population grows older at an unprecedented pace, our collective wisdom would bathe us in knowledge and insights and solutions. This isn’t happening, obviously. Not now. Not anytime soon. Not later….
What in hell is wrong with people? There’s the obvious litany of human flaws and foibles, for sure: greed, selfishness, immorality, hate, racism, sexism, ageism, Xenophobia, et cetera, et cetera. The effects of which produce all sorts of social, national…
