Fitting In

Mask or no mask?  Sit/stand close or far away?  Shake hands or bump elbows?  Go inside or wait for delivery?  It doesn’t matter where I am or what I’m doing.  There are just too many unknowns any more. It isn’t just the pandemic-related issues, either.  What pronoun do I use for this person I’m seeing […]

All We Need

The Beatles once sang a popular song that had the very repetitious line “All you need is love.” There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done. Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung. … There’s nothing you can make that can’t be made. … There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known. Nothing […]

The Tyranny of the Convenient

The forecasts started a week before the “event.”  Snow “accumulation” across the southeast of the US – a terrifying prospect for people who normally only see a light snow a couple of times each winter season – was coming in ferocious power.  The rumored intensity of the coming storm was matched by the intensity of […]