“When you are finished changing, you are finished.” -Benjamin Franklin “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” -Benjamin Disraeli The Benjamins were right, weren’t they? Some people are great at staying calm and unruffled even when being tossed about roughly on… Continue Reading
Please give me a moment of your time and indulge me. This isn’t a tea-and-sympathy post or virtue signaling or me seeking validation or a crusade for a noble cause, it’s just something I need to get off my chest.… Continue Reading
Hello Clever People! Welcome to my review for the Netflix original comedy The Lovebirds. This film follows the story of a couple after they witness a horrific event and have to run to stay safe. But it’s a comedy! Click… Continue Reading
I don’t know why people make such a big deal out of this. Honestly, so far, preparing for my colonoscopy has been a breeze. I’ll admit that I’ve been feeling sort of, well, guilty for the past couple of days… Continue Reading
There is a growing epidemic in America, and it’s repercussions are uniquely far-reaching, vastly understated, and potentially disastrous. The US has made a serious lapse. We have enabled a decades-long history of denying science, and produced a generation of scientific… Continue Reading
Like many people living in rural Shasta County, I have had an uneasy relationship with our telephone company, Frontier Communications. We met thirty years ago when I needed a telephone and they were called Citizens. All they provided was plain… Continue Reading
Meet the late Morgan James Davis — “Mo” or “Big Mo” to his friends — depicted above operating a dual spindle glass blowing lathe, a machine he mastered on his way to becoming an underground artist of some renown in… Continue Reading
Nature with its feathers and its viruses does not dance for our pleasure or pain. Water does not need us to make a river. But we, of course, can both minimize natural suffering and enjoy natural beauties. There are uncounted… Continue Reading
Hello Clever People! Welcome to my review for the new Amazon Prime original The Vast of Night. This film follows the story of two teenagers who try to uncover the mystery of a strange radio signal over the course of… Continue Reading
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” ~ Joseph Campbell ~ In the future, when we look back, we may call it the COVID Collapse, a cliff really, that the human… Continue Reading
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