Yoko Ono before she was Yoko Ono. She is best known as the woman who broke up the Beatles. She is almost as well known as the woman who screeches and screams on John Lennon’s later albums. She...
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Reducing Stress Naturally
Using music as therapy. “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” So offered William Congreve in the 17th Century, and he was right, more or less. Not...
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 rarely find a partner who satisfies all of our criteria. They may have certain idiosyncrasies or...
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...
