My position won’t surprise you

March 25, 2026
I wondered how long it would take her to block me on social media and she finally did. Her position on Israel & Gaza has been loud and strident. I knew that my belief that armed conflict and murder rarely solved anything irritated her. I pushed back a little on some of her more aggressive...

My position won’t surprise you

March 25, 2026
I wondered how long it would take her to block me on social media and she finally did. Her position on Israel & Gaza has been loud and strident. I knew that my...

When your heart breaks

March 23, 2026
A silence unlike any other follows heartbreak. It's not a peaceful silence, but the stillness of something sacred having been forever shattered. You can almost...

The other side weighs in….

March 17, 2026
....on what's going on here on the Earth plane. Never have I wanted to hear more from the other side about a specific topic than I did with this one, and the...

How to clear brain fog

March 16, 2026
Most of us know the feeling: You wake up and it’s like your brain is wading through molasses. Thoughts don’t come easily. Focus is out of reach. Words vanish...

The S cookies of my childhood

March 11, 2026
These are S cookies, a remnant of my childhood.  Just about every week my grandfather would walk in the door with small white boxes of cookies from Savoia...

A conversation with ChatGPT about friendship

March 9, 2026
I've had more than a few conversations with ChatGPT over the past few months, asking its perception of my core beliefs. Their observations are, of course, drawn from the...

On holding a grudge

March 4, 2026
A grudge begins as a knot in the chest. A moment replayed, then again. A wound that didn’t get the dignity of being named, much less tended to. We tell...

Doowop and our lost innocence

March 2, 2026
There’s something about doo-wop that can undo me in the first eight bars. Put on In the Still of the Night by The Five Satins, or Maybe by the Chantels , and...

Is opportunism always a bad thing?

February 26, 2026
We've all seen opportunism at work. Maybe it's someone we know who is always looking for the benefit. Or who always seems to position themselves to benefit. And...

On the particular cruelty of being left out

February 24, 2026
This topic gets more comments than just about anything else I post here. I think it's universal. Being left out on purpose has a particular cruelty to it. It's...

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