A Brief Look At Some Things We Missed
2021has been a busy year and we’ve missed a few things along the way. This week, we catch up a bit.
2021has been a busy year and we’ve missed a few things along the way. This week, we catch up a bit.
When we consider the amount of our personal data that is on the Internet, it can get scary. How do we manage our digital footprint?
Every digital device and all the software you use has a Terms of Service contract you must agree to. Our lives are digital. We need one, too.
We’re trying something different with a video version of our audio podcast on the value of sex. We hope this makes it more enjoyable.
Our talk says we value health and medicine. Our actions say something different. Are we lying to ourselves?
Family! We all have them, but do they raise our value or do they hinder it? What is the best structure for realizing our value?
What we do, our occupation, our work, is an important and unavoidable part of how our lives are valued. That value may be threatened.
With so much information available and infinite amounts of knowledge to consume, is there a limit to how much one person can know?
Independence Day, July 4, is the quintessential American holiday. Hold up. Before lighting any fireworks, let’s talk about true freedom
The words we write and the words we say are not always taken in the manner that we intend and sometimes that causes some problems.
As we grow older, our selection of friends becomes smaller, sometimes prompting us to question why we were friends in the first place.
I don’t always remember what I’m doing, why I’m in this room, or how things work. Memory is complicated. Losing it is frightening.
An anti-Pride meme sends the wrong message and completely misses the facts about rainbows, floods, and Pride.
Emotions are triggered when looking at my hands starts to remind me of a racist grandparent I never wanted to emulate.
Ending the one thing for which we’ve always been knowing, putting more than 35 years of experience on the shelf, was not an easy decision.
Another mass shooting. Another murder of an unarmed black child at the hands of police. The United States is a disgrace. What’s next?
One strong trait of Americans is the extent to which we value our rights, our liberties. But what happens when my rights conflict with yours?
We look at gains made: not biting our nails, COVID-19 Vaccines, economy surging, and it feels good. But what direction do we take next?
The racist murder of eight people at Atlanta-area massage parlors demands that we reconsider our views on professional sex work.
What may look like laziness to some may be the ultimate form of avoiding stress and keeping yourself creative and healthy.
Not everyone plays fair. They step over the line. When cheating hurts the poor we have to speak out. This isn’t Nam, Dude. There are rules.
Everyone has mountains they must cross. Unless there’s no mountain. Let’s consider that maybe our challenges aren’t as big as we think.
All I wanted to do was listen to a wonderful pipe organ. A church got in the way.
References to Charles Dickens abound as the spirits of past years are summoned in search of a hopeful spirit for the holidays.
I talk to myself because sometimes I need expert advice. This is one of those times.
All predictions were that we would be a great society by 2020. Those predictions were wrong. 2020 is already disappointing.
It’s my birthday, but how many of us will be here for the next one? We’re dying too quickly and that’s a problem!
The New Yorker scooped my planned topic so we got all depressed and went this direction instead.
Being creative and maintaining that creativity raises a lot of questions and doubts and the fear that we’re all going mad.
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There is a lot of fear in our lives and many are unnecessary. We look at five fears you no longer need.
Rhetoric is irrelevant; climate change now threatens everything, eliminating the opportunity for a measured response. Note: I realize that since we’ve spent 20 weeks with the novel there haven’t been a large number of links in what we’ve written. Our links are not underlined or colored, they’re bold italic. When …
Striving for perfection sounds like a good thing right up until the point it causes a heart attack, or ruins a relationship, or makes life suck. We need to let go of perfection everywhere we can.
We have fallen victim to the good guy/bad guy mythology of Nationalism and it is a large part of what fuels our intolerance and racism.
There has been a lot of incendiary talk about abortion this week but if we truly value life we have to realize it’s the planet we’re about to abort.
Asking What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) is the wrong question. Instead, one should ask What Did Jesus Say? (WDJS)
News of the death of Rachel Held Evans shook us hard. We look back at the original article that brought her to our attention.
Have we reached a state of permanent dystopia and injustice or are there some things we’re missing? We look at the numbers across the board.
Creating our own identity is a challenge that tests our resolve and determination but we come out stronger in the end.
Creating our own identity is a challenge that tests our resolve and determination but we come out stronger in the end.