Laughing When Nothing Seems Funny
One way to stay sane in an insane world is to laugh. Laughter eases tensions and gives us better wrinkles. However, with the dire specters of death and domination looming … Continue reading
Memories or Miracles
Memories. The word conjures images of times and people gone by—hopefully happy memories. But memories don’t have to be happy. Neither do they have to be true. We store our … Continue reading
Self-Destruct!
In the sci-fi parody GALAXY QUEST, Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver struggle to activate the manual shut-off for self-destruct that aliens have set in motion to blow up their spaceship. … Continue reading
Leaning on the Press
Remember your high school newspaper? I attended different schools and worked on their papers. Two featured typical well-meaning articles that sounded like the excessively toady book reports I wrote in … Continue reading
Can a Society Come Clean?
Change sometimes comes quietly on little mouse feet, creeping in almost before anyone is aware. A change in attitudes doesn’t work like that. It comes in a tsunami or not … Continue reading
They Called Her Toni
The tour de force that was Toni Morrison offers many bits of wisdom to those who watch her film biography TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM and sigh over her … Continue reading
The Fellowship of the Survivors
The incredible waste of war and the astounding resilience of the human spirit are two sub-themes in the film TOLKIEN about J.R.R. Tolkien, author of THE HOBBIT and the LORD … Continue reading
Looking Through Corrective Lenses
Imagine, if you will, a world in which everyone looks alike, thinks alike, listens to the same songs, and follows the same religion. What if “free will” was meaningless because … Continue reading
To the Last Page
My dear friend’s mother died this week of COVID-19. She would’ve died sometime, anyway. We all will. But she died now because people in a retirement facility were infected. The … Continue reading
“It slides off me and sticks on you!”
(This blog applies to all living beings currently on Earth.) Awareness sometimes hurts. Most of us hate to think negative thoughts about things that can end badly—unless we’re directly threatened. … Continue reading
