The trend today is to silence the opposing view point. If you have an opinion on Gay rights and their use of pronouns, on the #Me too movement, on Black Lives Matter, or whether or not it is helpful and righteous to remove confederate monuments and rename everything and anything having to do with the […]
Newspapers have been slowly dying across the country and it’s only natural. There are many reasons for this, and to me, they are unavoidable: Internet platforms like Craig’s List and E-Bay took away their advertising, TV and radio, plus other news outlets make printed news look stale, since papers usually comes a day or two […]
“Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!” Robinson Jeffers and the Social and Biological Devolution of Humanity Because Robinson Jeffers’ physical body has not been with us for a long time, one may assume that he has little of a specific nature to tell us about society in the year 2006. But Jeffers’ world […]
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It would be nice to know the future, think of the possibilities. It would be almost as good as going to the past. Besides buying all the Apple and Amazon stock at the right time, my walls would be covered in paintings, including all the maestros: from Pablo Picasso to Van Gogh with one or […]
My dad was a smart guy and after a career in psychiatry most of us thought nothing would surprise him ‒ he even thought so ‒ but there is always the exception. I wrote this to point out how hard it is to control oneself and maintain something as simple as a New Year’s resolution, […]
Lots has been written about the cyclical nature of life and I thought a little more could not hurt. And is not just in butterflies or any one particular thing, it’s in everything, everywhere, all the time. What goes up comes down, what starts, stops, then starts again. Sometimes the cycle is short, sometimes long, […]
I had the pleasure to help a friend’s wife with her interview in front of an immigration officer, part of the process of getting a green card. I was there, I was he translator and here is the story. Denton Record Chronicle. The good news is that within seven days she had the card in […]
I friend of mine sent me a video about fly fishing in Patagonia. This brought back a flood of memories, especially of a trip I took with some American friends to a little known river that empties into Lago Todos los Santos (All Saints Lake) in southern Chile – both Chile and Argentina have a […]
Sometimes, it’s just good to tell a story. This one is about the time I flirted with gold mining. And I happened to be in a part of the world where a large amount of gold was found during the Spanish conquest, which lasted about 350 years (1520 – 1820 approx). Still and all, due […]