Celebrating 1,000 posts with a few near incoherent thoughts on the past, present, and future

Benjamin Franklin famously or infamously said that the country was a Republic, if you can keep it.  To liken great things to small, this is a blog if I can keep it up, but isn’t that true of everything in life?  When I started this blog in November 2020, it wasn’t clear to me how… Continue reading Celebrating 1,000 posts with a few near incoherent thoughts on the past, present, and future

Lessons on the passing of an aged coonhound

Are we masochists when it would be much, much easier not to have one in the first place, both in terms of mourning their loss and the truth that this animal depends on you for everything?  Or does it represent something far more wonderful and special in human nature, that we voluntarily bring another creature… Continue reading Lessons on the passing of an aged coonhound

This Christmas, celebrate the magic of the moment

You might not ever be gathered with the same people in the same place, not next year, not ever.  So this Christmas, sever yourself from the past and the future, stop calculating everything, and simply enjoy it.  It may seem like a bad dream only two short years later, but the experts recommended we cancel,… Continue reading This Christmas, celebrate the magic of the moment

George Carlin: The legendary comedian was right even when he was wrong

Revisiting George Carlin’s prophetic 1992 performance at Madison Square Garden immortalized on HBO. From the philosophical to the profane, Mr. Carlin peered decades into the future...   “You know my favorite part of that war?”  The legendary comedian George Carlin remarked in one of his many HBO Specials.  “It’s the first war we ever had that… Continue reading George Carlin: The legendary comedian was right even when he was wrong