Happy New Year, 2023 edition! This post has been a long time coming. About 2 1/2 years, actually. It is that long since I felt the COVID-19 pandemic justified a pause in posting. The pandemic was changing — itself and…
Lately, the weather in Northeast Ohio seems off. It’s probably not; it’s probably my imagination. Since I’m mostly working from home, the weather is more noticeable to me than it used to be. After all, somebody has to take the…
There is something about color that eludes definition. We put words on every color to modify it, attempt to fine-tune the description: Candy Apple Red, Teal Green. We’ve been traveling through several of the national parks in Utah this summer,…
Every situation has more than one side to the story. Maybe two, maybe ten. But humans crave simplicity. We don’t like to live with the stress of ambiguity. We want fewer facets to consider, not more. We want our problems…
I was sad to see the statue of famous abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, in Rochester, NY torn down and damaged this past week. Here’s the Douglass statue news story. Sad for a lot of reasons but mostly sad because it shows a…
