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If Not Now, Matriarchy Will Come

June 12, 2025
by Caroline Miller
"Male and Female", Adolf Hitler, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bertha Vazquez, Doge, Elon Musk, Eric Hoffer, Gaza, illegal deportations, Keystone Cops, Margaret Mead, Melanie Trecek-King, meme coin, Oracle of Delphi, presidential pardons, selling White House tours, Sleepy Joe, Trump vs the Courts, Trump vs. Harvard, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
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The anthropologist Margaret Mead spent her life studying humans and came up with observations that go unchallenged today. One of them is, Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.  But, like the
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In Search Of Sally’s Chair

January 23, 2025
by Caroline Miller
"My Life And Hard Times", Alilce in Wonderland, Br'er Rabbit, Donald Trump's new Presidency, Edith Anne, James Thurber, Laugh-In, lawyers arrested in Russia, Lilly Tomlin, The Red Queen, Vladimir Putin
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I am not hopeful for a country to be led by Donald Trump over the next four years.  Frankly, his presidency looms like a hurricane funnel on the horizon.  So, I’ve been thinking about what to put in my mental storm cellar to survive.  After all, at age 88, I’m hopeful for a few
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Three Financial Pillars

August 01, 2024
by Caroline Miller
Certificates of Deposit, Citizens United, dollar's dominence in trade, Elon Musk, Eswar Prasad, foreign investment in dollars, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Lina Khan, Oligarachs in a democracy, tarriffs versus taxes, The Federal Reserve, the national debt, US Treasury Notes, Vladimir Putin, Why the dollar has stability
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The bank paid off one of my certificates of deposit (CD) early to refinance at a lower rate. My broker suggested one of two things: 1) buy a 3-month Treasury that paid 5% interest, or 2)  a one-year Note that paid 4.5%.  I chose the longer Treasury despite the lower rate.  If the F
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There Is No Other

December 14, 2023
by Caroline Miller
affordable housing, are the young suffering because of elderly needs?, Climate change, Donald Trump, drop in diabetes medication cost, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elon Musk, govt & big Pharma, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird, Leona Helm, Lewis Strauss, Michael Hiltzik, Mickey Rapkin, Scott Greenberg, Social Security and Medicare costs, Tax Foundation, the rich don't pay taxes, Vladimir Putin, young people forced to live with parents
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The mother sitting across from me at the lunch table sighed when I asked about her daughter.  “She’s thinking about moving to Pennsylvania.  Since she works from home, she can live anywhere.  Rural Pennsylvania seems to be the one place where houses are affordable. “ The dile
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Thoughts About The Kitchen Table

November 30, 2023
by Caroline Miller
false humility, hostile architecture, John F. Kennedy, pandering politicians, private beliefs vs. public fact, Robert Gates, short vision of tyrants, the curse of simple answers, Tucker Carlson, value of mindfulness, Vladimir Putin, War and climate change
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At the retirement center, a woman approached me to compliment a  blog I had written.  My reply was to shrug and say the words hadn’t amounted to much.   Later, I recanted, realizing my false humility had made light of her opinion. To be honest, I’d worked hard on that blog. Wh
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A Paeen To Humility

November 16, 2023
by Caroline Miller
abortion rights, communion, David Brooks, David Thoreau, Donald Trump, frustration in the universe, Geting Lost to Find Home, Israeli/Palestinian war, learned hate, political polls for 2024 election, the politics of revenge, vainglory, Vladimir Putin, Walden Pond, Xi Jinping
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If life feels frustrating, there’s a reason. Frustration is a condition throughout the universe.  Even electrons are vulnerable. Because an imbalance exists between the places for them in one layer of the quantum soup and another, each time the layers interact, the quantum particle
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Rules of Engagement

August 31, 2023
by Caroline Miller
Backhmut, Henry David Thoreau, Homer, new rules for war, The Odessey, the power of oligarchs, tyranny, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin, Waldon Pond, War of the Ants, who fights wars, why tyrannies fall
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Henry David Thoreau’s, Waldon Pond was assigned reading in my undergraduate years but I managed to avoid the book.  Not until my 70s when I was recuperating from surgery did  I turn to it and then, only because it was the one volume I could reach without getting out of bed.  I fl
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The One True Thing

June 08, 2023
by Caroline Miller
2023 Debt Ceiling Debate, American Carnage, Christian Nationalist, Donald Trump, Emmett Till, Gaetz takes country hostage, James Bowman, Janet Yellen, January 6 insurrection, Kim Jon Un, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Marjorie Taylor Greene cals for decorum, Matt Gaetz, Mohammed bin Salman, power of diversity, The language of villains and patriots, Trump's failed legislation, Trump's Presidential platform 2024, Vladimir Putin, white supremacists, Winston Churchill
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Before he took his life to escape the ravages of ALS, a gentleman with a wicked sense of humor shared this thought about his neighbor:  She is a woman of strong opinions—most of them wrong. A little wicked myself, I laughed but felt guilty afterward. Even so, the witticism was apt.
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One True Thing About Democracy

February 16, 2023
by Caroline Miller
America's promise of equality, Andre Tate, Are tyrants capable of remorse?, Are tyrants fools?, creativity and mischief, devastation in Ukraine, hate on the internet, John Kerr, John Locke, lyrics to You've got to be taught, Pew research on teens and the media, psychopaths prevelant in society, ridding Ukraine of Nazis, South Pacific, study of the 2020 election, The nature of humans, the two innate fears, Thoimas Hobbes, U. S. Constitution, Vladimir Putin, war as a game
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Many artists have recorded the song “You’ve Got to be Taught” from the musical South Pacific. Barbara Streisand is among them. It’s a song about hate. Actor John Kerr in the original film version explains. ”It happens after you’re born.” The philosopher John Locke would
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Abandon Fear Ye Who Enter Here

November 03, 2022
by Caroline Miller
2020 election, a conscious universe, Climate change, Donald Trump, end of the human species, fear and courage, fear energizes hate, illeglal aliens, Marjorie Taylor Green, Pete Buttigieg, population shift In U. S., race, Reason fails, Russia's Urkraine invasion, the big lie, the inner mind, Vladimir Putin
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A friend of mine took a series of tests to determine her mental decline as she aged. Happily, for her, the tests were comforting.  Even so, I admired her courage.  What she’d done was like poking a sleeping bear with a sharp stick.  If the news hadn’t been good, how would she h
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