October 4 , 2020 /

A PERSONAL ENCOUNTER

As some of you know, I have a long history with civil rights and the issues surrounding race relations in these Disunited States.  I have written about it previously, documented some of my experience in the 60’s and posted another piece recently here, “Understanding Racism.” This one is a revision and update of a blog

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September 28 , 2020 /

HELP MAKE THE CHANGE

UNCERTAINTY At the beginning of this week, I was struck by the relevance of this question: “How do you adjust to an ever-changing situation where the ‘new normal’ is indefinite uncertainty?” From my perspective, there is nothing unusual with an “ever-changing situation” nor with “indefinite uncertainty.”  They are both part of the what we face

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September 23 , 2020 /

THE REACH AND IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Here is a brief summary of some of the top influencers in the world of social media. The first social media site to reach a million monthly active users was MySpace – it achieved this milestone around 2004, about the same time as Facebook started.  This is arguably the beginning of social media as we

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September 16 , 2020 /

THE WAY IN IS THE WAY OUT

Several years ago, a neighbor/potter made, among many things, a beautiful salt shaker with one hole in the bottom.  Besides being an exquisite design, the function fulfilled the saying “The way in is the way out.”  We gave a number of those salt shakers to friends and family and at some point had a contest

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September 9 , 2020 /

THEN AND NOW

As an older person, I have a perspective on living conditions then and now because how I lived then is different from how I live now. I appreciate the differences. Then there were no digital devices on which to rely for communication, storage or photos, etc. Now there is a plethora of computers, chips and

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September 8 , 2020 /

GOD LAUGHS

There’s a saying around our house, “When we make plans, God laughs.”  I have tried parsing that numerous times without a lot of success and sometimes, it’s after plans go awry for one reason or another that we have to laugh. We know about hindsight.  It’s perfectly clear.   We know a fair amount about insight. 

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