lonely

One feeling comes up regularly as I process the election results: loneliness. I think a lot of people don’t consider the safety and well-being of their neighbors. I think a lot of people don’t worry about the effect they have on others. It’s just hard to absorb, for me, because I obsess about these things. […]

Patience

One reason it’s good to have less money is that it forces you to be more patient. A couple of weeks ago, my laptop took a turn for the worse. Since I tripped over the cord, getting a good connection between the outlet and the computer is a tricky business. Sometimes it requires repeated twisting […]

Reforming

It was not easy to sit through the discussion. Maybe the cancer histories of various relatives were invoked. Maybe someone suggested that people who love European ways so much should go live there. I absolutely did not endorse Cuban dictatorships or mob-fueled economic revolutions.

Not Robin Hood. Not Lionhearted. Just Wise.

I think the leeches are the people who benefit from the military fighting in the Middle East to ensure your supply of oil, the NIH studying flu viruses and developing vaccines, OSHA keeping their workplace safe, and the Department of Labor limiting their work hours to a manageable level. The people who drive over federally funded bridges and interstates and accept federal student grants, and then claim the federal government is unresponsive and worthless, and say they don’t want to contribute to it, in fact, say they want to take it apart and return us to some kind of backward Articles of Confederation when we agreed in 1789 that that was a dumb idea.