I remember when I decided to finally give in and got my first pair of reading glasses. By then, I had spent years squinting, blinking and trying to adjust to the increasing focal length that eventually surpassed my arms’ reach. The ensuing revelation that printing techniques had not deteriorated into…
If you were writing the encyclopedia, (wikipedia?), entry for ‘Power Struggle’, this past week could have offered nearly every variation of the term. There were the on-going struggles for personal and political power in the middle east as well as in every legislative body around the globe, the sadly ineffective…
I’ve always had an uncanny ability to solve mazes. I look at the ‘finish’ and I can usually see a clear path back to the ‘start’. Perhaps, I wondered, that might be a valid approach to the socio-political-economic puzzle before us, for which a lack of a timely solution could…
I just spent a week with my Mom celebrating her 91st birthday. I did my best to stay totally engaged with her, resisting my weekly urge at waxing rhapsodic on any of the following topics: Libya Wisconsin Huckabee Sheen Economy Gingrich The East Coast Rapist Oscar The Weather Just talk…