Toilet Paper v. Tissues and Paper Towels

If there is a downside to technology, it is justifying impatience.  “I want it and I want it NOW!”  The idea that some things take time feels like a violation to many of us. It all started with the TV dinner and microwaves! (No official validation of that, just my opinion.) Competition seems to bring…

Life of one form or another has been present on Earth for 7+ million years. Hard to wrap our heads around that much time!  Hominins, monkey-like creatures, have existed for in the neighborhood of 220,000 years. We’ve all seen the pictures of stages of as a variety of ancestors figured out that freeing their hands…

Ravaged by covid, misled by politicians tripping over their egos, our Great Experiment is being tested as never before.  As we each try to manage the lives we can directly influence, the din of uncertainty reverberates in the background. The talking heads on TV and radio are hard to tolerate. The venom, the giddiness over the…

There is a new scam called check washing. Apparently, the perp grabs an envelope by breaking into a mailbox. There could also be dishonest postal workers grabbing the clearly marked billing envelopes. Either way the ability to photograph a check and change it is the scam. The clever dude deletes the payee and the amount…

I voted on November 2nd. I found myself voting against rather than voting for. The choices seemed uninspiring in their vindictive and classless attacks on each other. Where is the dignity? If the available candidates are reflections of our society, we are in serious trouble. Maybe people have always been small minded, but they knew…

When I heard on the news that there was going to be and influx of grasshoppers, I didn’t think much of it. Apparently, they didn’t come north into New Jersey, so that prediction dropped below the radar. Not so lucky with Covid-19. That plague didn’t drop below anyone’s radar and we are all still inhaling…

This blog is being written on Mother’s Day, but it won’t be posted until after, but that’s ok.  The point is to reflect, and this reflection may be more appropriate after the heartfelt cards, the Edible Arrangements and the flowers are enjoyed on the actual day. As someone who has had a career in psychology, the…

Just when we thought that our masks were coming off and vaccines were killing the dreaded Covid19, here come the variants!  Sneaky little buggers they are, altering their approach to our waiting cell membranes ever so slightly. As subtle as the changes are, they can be enough to fake out our immune systems and cause…

If there was a set of circumstances that would expose anything about us that needed healing, here it is. We have a combination of dark, cold winter, insurrection and COVID. There are only two choices: we can feel like victims, out of control, or we can “elevate” and see all of this as an opportunity.…

And so, we turn the page and it becomes the Biden/Harris Era. Will this chapter be a statement of conscious understanding, or will it again be a plateau that serves comfort and status quo? There are many categories in which the status quo is becoming very uncomfortable. The pandemic, global warming, social unrest erupting into…