My 2021 Epilogue

2021 is going down as a serious contender for “Worst Year Ever.” Not because of all the many, many bad things that have gone wrong lately. Both personally and as an American. Inflation is now sky-high thanks to incompetent tinkering with the great economy we just had under Trump. Love him or hate him, he……

Learn to Distinguish Between What You Can Control & What You Cannot

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I’ve had a short line of people remark to me throughout my life, especially recently with so much turbulence and disruption coming my way from an ex-family member, ask me why I don’t react how they seem to believe I should, given the circumstances or event(s) that come my way. They expect me to flip……

¡Ay CARAMBA! – What a Week!

Fall has fallen. The tress across the street. I apologize for not having the same view when they look across. At least I change my underwear!

I managed to move a few glaciers 1mm each this week. Which is progress, technically. That’s how an ant eats an elephant: one little bite at a time. And I’ve got a number of unexpected and unappreciated Mastodons I’m working on devouring at the moment. While simultaneously pushing 5 large boulders up a mountain myself.……

Totalitarianism is Real

Ach-tung!

I realized today what it felt to live in the USSR, Greater German Reich, North Korea, China, Equatorial Guinea or any other totalitarian regime, union or republic. I don’t state that lightly. Certainly, most Americans under 40 would have no notion of what any of those governmental arrangements represent. None whatsoever. Most of them only……