And finding your way back. There are lots of reasons why couples might feel disconnected. Sometimes...
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Surfing NYC
Hot dogs, baseball, and big waves. Surf City, Jan & Dean Move over Jan & Dean. Hey Beach...
Take your Electric Airplane to Work
Trains, cars and planes…Is there room for all of them in your garage? This is 2021 and electric...
The Woman Who Broke Up the Beatles
Yoko Ono before she was Yoko Ono. She is best known as the woman who broke up the Beatles...
Reducing Stress Naturally
Using music as therapy. “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a...
Would You Like Your Partner to Change?
That might not be in your partner’s, or your own, self-interests. As the world isn’t perfect, we...
Podcasts
White Fragility
Understanding racism from the white perspective. Racism in some form or another is unavoidable...
Security or Freedom?
What do Americans really want? American voters often go to the polls claiming that they are unhappy...
Fatal Distractions
Using misinformation to steer us away from our problems. President Trump is running scared. That...
Sports in a Pandemic
The good and the bad of the re-opening Across the leagues, sports are trying to activate. This is...
Fake News
Controlling the narrative to hold onto power Fake news is nothing new. It was used as early as the...
Political Power
The most effective means of guaranteeing your rights. The murder of George Floyd in Minnesota...
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Bowling Balls, Physics and Brooklyn
Technology emerges in the most surprising places. Sometimes that old adage “everything old is new again”, is true and other times not so much. Certainly things are built upon other things, advances...
Obits
Do not die until you read this. The world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change for a good long time. These changes are neither good nor bad. They simply “are”, we all have very...
The Bard of Bronzeville
An introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks Maxie Allen always taught her Stipendiary little daughter To thank her Lord and lucky star For eye that let her see so far, For throat enabling her to eat Her...
Can Your Marriage Survive Retirement?
In retirement, couples have to cope with a more intrusive co-existence. How well you handle it can depend on your perspective.
A History of Dolls
Playthings… and collectibles This is a look at dolls. No not the kind Frank Sinatra sang about. The kind my younger sister had all over her bed, on her bookshelves and even sitting...
Contextualizing the Undefinable
A problem that should be easy to solve. We live in a new world. A world where everyday we say, “That’s amazing, that’s unbelievable, that can’t be true”… and yet it is. This is a world which...
The Horror of Nursery Rhymes
Keep your kids away from them. Parents have mindlessly recited century’s old nursery rhymes to their kiddies for hundreds of years. They have a feel-good tone, and there’s evidence that...
Women Beat Writers
Finally, some well-deserved attention. Like most disciplines in the mid twentieth century, literature has been male dominated. Most of the major movements in art and culture have had the same agenda...
Spandex, The Yankees, and a 13 Billion Year Old Window
Things that I obsess about Like a great many people in my demographic I am interested in a multitude of captivating topics. How are my NY Yankees doing, Why do the Rolling Stones still...
Maybe Older Really is Better
What Karl Marx once called ‘commodity fetishism’, we now call ‘fashionably trendy’. What the muscle cars of the1960’s were as iconic representations of an era, today it is exotic pre-owned wrist...
