And most of it’s not even you Image by Naomi Booth from Pixabay This is why science makes people nervous It keeps coming up with uncomfortable discoveries; things that jolt us out of our assumptions about ourselves and demand that we question the evidence…
My former classmate drank the Kool-Aid — last Here’s my memory of Thanksgiving weekend, 1978 My fiancée and I were staying at my widowed mother’s house in Belmont, California where I’d spent my first 20 years. The family gathering proceeded with…
Darn it. Back when I was young and stupid, I did something terrible I didn’t mean to. But I hurt someone deeply, someone who means the world to me. I’m not going to describe the incident, because that would be…
Outliving bikini season angst This weekend, I was reminded to be grateful for a gift from the aging process. Like many of its gifts, it takes an adjustment in my perspective to appreciate, but once I do, boy howdy. Get…
A polite rant about a budget airline Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels Let me be clear: I am not dumping on all commercial air travel In fact, I’m a fan. Whenever I look out an airplane window and see clouds…