In a recent blog (1/1/52016), I wrote about the risky times ahead in the stock market. I said my broker and I had talked about safe havens but found none.  For those trying to keep up with the cost of inflation — not the real one which would include medical and drug increases â

When I was 10, I found a land application for 1 square inch of the moon in my Cheerios cereal box.  The time was the 1940s, long before John F. Kennedy had a gleam in his eyes to send Neil Armstrong into the stratosphere. As I was fascinated with astronomy, I jumped  at the chance t

I mentioned in a recent blog that a study in Denmark revealed people active on Facebook were less happy than those who weren’t.  (Blog 12/7/2015)  I confess some of the messages on social media leave me in despair.  Mothers, fathers, children die and beloved pets, too.  Divorce

There’s a storm brewing at the retirement center.  It’s a small one.  4 vegetarians have gathered and there’s talk of revolution.  We’re sick of looking at all those drawn and quartered and fried dead animals that pass for food and want choices that are healthy.  Surprisin

I have known only a few African Americans in my life.  All of them have been bright.  Some of them were funny and a few of them prickly.  They  added to my joy and I’m sorry to say, they have all drifted away.  The glue necessary to hold us together, something beyond respect, w

Leslee Urdwin has finished a movie about rape, Daughter of India. Jyoti Singh was a 23 year-old medical student in New Delhi, India who was attacked on a private bus and, after being brutalized by a group of young men, was murdered by them.   One of the offenders died while in polic

When I lived in England in the 1960s, I met a number of Polish people and their children who, having found a haven in England during World War II, had chosen not to repatriate to their home country after peace had been declared.  Some of the parents continued to wear the mantel of a

Donald Trump says Muslim’s in New Jersey cheered when the 911 towers went down.  Despite the lack of evidence, he continues to say it with great conviction.  Some people believe if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes true in some people’s minds.  Certainly, the dairy indust

I opened my computer recently to find an article about the actor, John Malkovich.  His latest commercial, it said, won’t be released for 100 years.  A snippet of the film provided shows the actor placing a bottle of perfume in a vault, then locking it.  In the next frame, presuma

One of the mixed blessings of the technological age is that we are trained to think in statistics and ratings figures.  A computer can measure and quantify large numbers, so, today, almost anything can be ranked, even the trivial.  “On a scale of 1- 10, how would rate your last oi