Archive For September 12, 2021

Happy Grandparents’ Day

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Happy Grandparents’ Day

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is. – Ellen DeGeneres As you might well expect, I am childless. Still getting calls about my student loans a half century after graduation, didn’t think I could afford offspring. And then there’s…

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Optimism In The 21st Century

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Optimism In The 21st Century

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill Let’s not give up on the entire 21st century yet. It’s easy to be pessimistic about the future, maybe partly because awful is easier to imagine — and kinda more exciting. You probably never saw “Death Race 2000,”…

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