Technology has given us marvelous opportunities that outstrip the pace of evolution. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up, which means we may fail to see the consequences of a change until it smacks us in the face. Social media is one example. On the plus side, drugs that treat deadly dis

Last week, I was in the checkout line of a grocery store.  In my basket, I had two items, small boxes, which together totaled nearly $70.  A young man ahead of me waited for the clerk to tally his bill, but before he handed over his money, he turned in my direction to ask if he coul

The pages of fashion magazines are bursting with predictions about new trends for the upcoming season.  One reason for optimism is that Covid-19 may be losing its grip on the country.  The battle isn’t won but incidents of the virus seem to be slowing down. If sustained, that mean

A young woman on my Facebook page sent up a cheer for the Kodak company recently which puzzled me. The latest news on Kodak was that the  New York attorney general was filing papers to charge the company with insider trading.  As I write this blog, the stock is selling below $9 per

Lady Bracknell, a character in Oscar Wilde’s comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest,  is an elderly Victorian aristocrat with her corset pulled so tight it affects her brain. Learning that her daughter’s suitor is an orphan, she responds with disdain rather than sympathy.  To l

A man on Alabama’s death row had his sentence on appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court  during the final weeks of the Trump administration. The case was complicated so his request for a stay of execution reached the High Court just days before Christopher Price was to die by lethal inj

In a democracy, the tension between order and freedom is always at work.  To keep the current playing field even, Congressional Democrats have submitted a bill to expand the U. S. Supreme Court from 9 to 13 members.  They feel today’s jurists are too conservative for a society tha

Orgasm at a cosmetic counter?  Who knew? Benefit’s latest product is a shimmery blusher by that name. Blushers, overshadowed for a time by contour colors, are “in” again.  Of course, they were never really abandoned and have a racy history that precedes 1976 when the same comp

This morning, I opened my email to find a note from a long-time friend.  It said she and her husband of 50 years, both vaccinated against Covid-19,  were headed for a weekend resort to join former college chums.  Her words seemed to leap from the page as she expressed her anticipat

In my late twenties, the principal of the high school where I taught threatened me. “Promise not to join the strike and you’ll be rewarded.  If not, I’ll punish you.”  As a unionist and a person who had faced greater threats than one coming from an educator, I refused.  Wha