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...
Explore
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...
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...
