At a recent get-together with friends and acquaintances the after-dinner conversation brushed up against U.S. politics. Someone (probably me), immediately said, “Don’t Go There.” Everybody…
First order of business; Save the Date! Two events to launch “I Had a Swell Time” are in the calendar; April 23, 2:30 p.m. at…
In the news this week, there was a report of a young woman who was sexually assaulted by a driver she had contacted through an…
It started out as simple curiosity. Never in a million years did I think I would develop an addiction to TikTok. For all my rants…
There is a peacefulness to old-school analog technology that is sorely missing from the data-mining, invasive smart technologies we have become accustomed to. Specifically, I’m…
In Robbie Burns’ poem, To a Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church, the lady was unaware that her new hat, and…
In Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, King Leontes becomes irrationally convinced, without concrete evidence, that his wife is cheating on him with his best friend, another…
Demographically speaking, I have always described myself as being on the tail end of the Boomer generation. Recently I learned that those of us born…
I have a Tiktok habit. Maybe you do too, or Youtube or Facebook reels are your preference. It’s all innocent and fun until you get…
How many headlines can you read without shrieking obscenities at your screen? Esther Perel emphasizes that our quality of life depends on the quality of…