Playthings… and collectibles This is a look at dolls. No not the kind Frank Sinatra sang...
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Contextualizing the Undefinable
A problem that should be easy to solve. We live in a new world. A world where everyday we say...
The Horror of Nursery Rhymes
Keep your kids away from them. Parents have mindlessly recited century’s old nursery rhymes...
Women Beat Writers
Finally, some well-deserved attention. Like most disciplines in the mid twentieth century...
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 ...
Maybe Older Really is Better
What Karl Marx once called ‘commodity fetishism’, we now call ‘fashionably trendy’. What the muscle...
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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The Loire Valley
France at it most Medieval A visit to this region of France, a short drive from Paris, will make you feel as though you’ve stepped back in time. During the Middle Ages, royal families came here...
Retirement 101: Maintaining Continuity
Bringing your stuff with you. It should be easy — stop working and go play. But it’s not. We live in a work-driven culture, and so work is in our DNA and retirement is antithetical to who we are...
Who is King in your Household?
Vacations, Technology and Toilets. Recently an article in the New Yorker magazine spoke about Pompeii and the continuing excavation. There was mention of ancient toilets. Normally I would skip...
Looking Back on a Sordid History Lesson
History as it should be is a living thing. It describes the character and the institutions of one culture, usually against that of another culture, each struggling to obtain its own desires. When we...
Jackson Pollock
Monster, Genius & Icon There’s never been a more controversial artist — greatly admired, loved, and hated, and vastly misunderstood. He was a hero to many, a villain to many more, and...
Graffiti
An art form and a force for social change. Graffiti conjures up images of painted subway trains, building walls, steel storefronts, and any other large flat surfaces. They may be designs or primitive...
Is it True that Covid-19 only Affects those Who Smile?
Football, Politics and the Hard Choices Ahead Most of us have a side thing going. Whether we collect hubcaps, write graffiti, or simply waste away in the world of televised professional sports, we...
Many Uses for a Good Barrel
Dropping over Niagara Falls might not be one of them We have all heard it said “it’s as easy as apple pie”, or “as easy as rolling down a hill in a barrel”. Maybe it’s not so easy to make an apple...
What’s Really Driving Votes in 2021?
It’s not left or right thinking. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that America’s public schools needed to be desegregated ”with all deliberate speed.” Two years later in 1956 some...
Does the Makeup Make the Man?
Getting in touch with your feminine side. Recently at a social gathering, I met a fellow I hadn’t seen in years. From across the room he looked somehow younger than the last time we met. As we...
