On the Day Bezos Wed
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Inflation is such that I expect my grocery bills to be double what they were a few years ago, but being charged $15 for a head of cabbage was something I could not let go. Continue reading
Category Archives: Lifestyle
And If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit?
The human psyche is delicate. Years of self-knowledge, discipline, and hard work are required to achieve some degree of equilibrium, yet it takes so little to disrupt it. Something bonkers happened yesterday that certainly disturbed mine. Continue reading
The Boy with the Ball
Can the Girl Scouts stand up to today’s savage cowboys of corporate America? Continue reading
Turning Out for Trump’s 79th
In an era of mega-politics, the power of monolithic governments only increases as the multitudes they govern swell. To keep democracy in check, those multitudes must be able to rouse mega-opposition when the corridors of mega-power go astray. But the multitudes have a big problem: logistics and infrastructure. Continue reading
The Cage Inside
We say birds are free because they can do what we cannot, fly. We put them in cages where we can watch, but they cannot fly. Trapped, they die, dusty, crusty, shabby, lonely, and — what we’ll never know — heartbroken. Our bodies suffer a similar fate. Continue reading
Nearly Normal Me
“Normal doesn’t exist.”
I glanced at my girlfriend, who was staring defiantly at me, as if aware that she had just shattered my fondest illusion. She was well into her sixties, as was I, and a professional. I assumed she would have learned about “normal” earlier in life. Continue reading
Steam in the Sauna
Maybe it was because the sauna had opened late that day. The sauna attendant could have been a little tense, irritable, not himself. Or perhaps it just took too long to explain the rules of the sauna, especially to someone so blithe about violating them. Continue reading
Wounded and Wounding
Conflicts within families constitute not only the bitterest strife on Earth, but have the potential to cultivate the subtlest and most enduring abuse. When the misconduct involves an elderly father and his children – the subject of the present inquiry – the urgency of attending to the matter, as well as the complexity, increases tenfold. Continue reading
Homeless
A neighborhood stroll turns into a laborious attempt to help a homeless woman find shelter. And my efforts yielded real knowledge: She wasn’t homeless, and I wasn’t really helping. Continue reading
Buberian Obesity
On a chance afternoon walk in late May, I had occasion to witness an incident that instantly established in my mind the connection between Martin Buber’s world view and the cause of morbid obesity. Let me give a little background . . . Continue reading