Apr 29, 2020
As the current lock-down continues (okay, that’s a bit of an overstatement; we’re far from fully locked down), I’m wondering how it’s affecting you. If you’re following the news and social media, and reading even a tiny segment of the reports, you notice a wide range...
Apr 22, 2020
On my coffee table is the current issue of National Geographic, a subscription I’ve now had for 30 or more years. This month’s issue has a front cover on both sides. On one cover it says: HOW WE LOST THE PLANET: A Pessimist’s Guide to Life on Earth in 2070. The...
Apr 16, 2020
Is money a game? “Money is a game. Know the rules and win!” When I first heard that statement, I was aghast, and highly offended! Money was to me, as to most people on the planet I knew, a means of survival, a livelihood. It was a most basic human need, not a game....
Apr 8, 2020
The current COVID-19 pandemic is getting wall-to-wall coverage on the news media. It’s where we get the hard facts and the opinions of “experts.” At the same time, we’re getting a lot of fun stuff on social media—some of it probably intended just to cheer us up, but...
Apr 2, 2020
Your life, like mine, has been cast into upheaval these last couple of weeks. In some ways, life has simply been put on hold; in other ways, it’s chaotic. A health pandemic has become an economic pandemic, with everyone hurting in one way or another. Those of us...