It takes a certain amount of discomfort to make changes. Last week I wrote about the frog staying in the increasingly hot pot of water….
Like the proverbial frog in the pot of increasingly hot water, sometimes we inure ourselves to growing levels of discomfort. It’s easy for most of…
Calvin, of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes made good use of his transmogrifier — a cardboard box which had the power to transmogrify himself…
Handshakes used to be considered a very important part of introductions and business relationships. Years ago, I met a salesperson who told me his company…
Living alone is one thing, but if I want to do things — and I do — it means that sometimes I will be by…
A meme is a unit of cultural information spread by imitation. Britannica.com My 1982 Oxford English Dictionary does not include a definition of ‘meme’. A quick…
Before he died of depression in 2018, I did not know who Anthony Bourdain was. I still have not read any of his books, or…
Dear Readers, The time has come for me to take a break from this weekly missive. The breaks I’ve taken in the past were because…
I am old school enough to subscribe to a hard copy newspaper every morning. It is a relaxing way to absorb the news of the…
There is a good movie to be made in the telling of how the cause of stomach ulcers shifted from lifestyle and diet issues to…