She was annoyed with me, the woman on Facebook.  I’d taken a position with which she disagreed.  We exchanged one or two comments.  Then I let the matter drop.  We were jousting over opinions, after all. Stellar orbits remained intact.  Tides would continue to roll in from the

Since the 2016 election, we’ve heard a good deal about fake news.  Bogus sources seem to spring up overnight.  Even Gig data can’t be trusted.  Click)  How do we tell the news from propaganda in this environment?  With 2.2 billion users sharing information on Faceboo

Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls, is changing the toy’s image.  Today, instead of the anorexic model of the past, she’s manufactured in different body shapes and varying skin colors.  Also added to the line is Barbie’s Inspiring Women, likenesses of accomplished w

Keeping democracy healthy, despite tribal instincts and where change is the constant, isn’t easy. Witness the number of democracies that have died in recent years. (Click)  “Justice for all” isn’t a part of the human genome. Nor will you find it in any slave agreement or

Someone on Facebook posted a clip about a woman who’d found an injured bee and decided to take care of it.  In return for her kindness, the creature responded with a trust near to affection.  This cross-species communication opened the woman to a new perspective on life.  (Click)

GlaxoSmithKline has a cure for the “bubble boy” affliction, an ailment that attacks people’s immune systems.  The price tag? $634,000. (Ibid, pg. 22.)   Spark Therapeutics, Inc. has a gene therapy to cure a rare form of childhood blindness. What is the value of gaining one’

When President Barrack Obama rejected the application for the  Keystone XL TransCanada pipeline, he had more on his mind than the environment.  The project made no economic sense.  According to the U. S. Department of State, bringing heavy oil sands across our border, among the mos

I sat down to coffee in the retirement lounge, recently, needing a time out. My head was spinning from my conversation with my stockbroker.  Exasperated, I said to the woman next to me, “How can I leave my money in the hands of someone who approves of Donald Trump?”  The woman,

While heading my teachers’ union in the 1970s, I was appointed to the Mayor’s Economic Advisory Council.  I had no background in economic development but I satisfied a necessary profile to round out the committee.  I was a woman and I was a union leader.  I soon learned my role

We’ve often been told that appearance is linked to success: first impressions stick and they affect how we’re treated.  Women tend to take these admonitions seriously.  After all, so much of their place in history has been the consequence of their looks.  Promise a woman a “f