Why I Blog
Click - Publish. On June 19th 2011, in a fit of narcissism and anxiety, I posted my first blog. What if the world doesn’t like what I wrote, I wondered. I needn’t have worried. Hardly anyone read that first post, except my mother and only because I sent it to her....
What Do You Waste?
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without,” my Depression-Era father preached. We didn't do without much because he picked up all kinds of stuff discarded along the way – screws, bolts, bits of rope, even an old fire hose and the broken-off arm of a...
Surviving Anxiety
Making ‘special’ breakfast in the kitchen a few mornings ago, I looked up and saw a lone coyote slowly navigating the deer path in the woods above our house. He - I shall call him ‘he’ for lack of knowledge of the coyote’s gender – was skinny, his grey fur dirty...
Leisure and Overwork
During my college years in the early 70’s, I read Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock. Toffler predicted increased automation and wealth such that by the year 2000, we all would need ‘leisure counselors’ to help us adjust to having large amounts of free time. Check out...
Groundhog Day
February 2, 2014 marks Super Bowl XLVIII, the death of 46-year-old actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the day Punxsutawney Phil emerges to predict a sooner or later arrival of spring, three seemingly unrelated events with themes echoing in the 1993 movie Groundhog...
Personal Geography
“When a man lives in one place for most of his life, he doesn’t need GPS. He is guided by memories…” stated the lead-in to Garrison Keillor’s article “There’s No Place Like Home: A Personal Geography” in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic. Personal...