On Being Political

I find, among other interesting surprises of late, that I’m becoming more political as I age. Is this a product of an awakening? An artifact of my slow journey from the physical-focus of youth to the intellectual-passions fueled by more trips around the sun? Or is it a weariness over the...

A New Low

Give credit to our current Administration for not giving us much to be contented Americans about, at least on a world-wide scale. I won’t go into examples, but suffice to say the good ‘ol USA is not the world leader, influencer, or model example we used to be. So given that...

Game by Game

Between relatives visiting and staying up late following the baseball playoffs over the last few weeks, I haven’t had much sleep nor extra time to blog! Such is the life of a diehard Boston fan in enemy country. While not quite the blasphemous act of wearing an Evil Empire cap while walking...

Rox and Sox

Pumpkins and baseball: two of my favorite October pastimes. And if this is October, you’ll find me watching as many of the baseball playoff games as I can get away with. The pumpkin connection, for the moment, is sated by three cute little punkin’s huddling on my couch table that I got...

Media Madness

I’ve discovered an interesting paradigm:  important news will find you, even when you avoid newspapers and TV media. Despite such a withdrawal, somehow the universe lets us in on things we should know. Over the last three weeks I’ve enjoyed an absence of TV news, commentary, or...