Should he be? — Classified document mishandling A couple of days ago Dan Abrams, chief legal analyst for ABC News, said on Good Morning America that he thought it was unlikely that former President Trump would be indicted for possessing and mishandling classified government documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate. I find this hard to believe. He…

Is that bar too low? — What does it take to break even on Medium? I know many come to this platform expecting to make five and six-figure incomes. I have a friend who left the Medium Partner Program after trying for a couple of years and failing to reach his goal of several thousand dollars…

Spooky? Perhaps a little. . . — As you know if you’ve read some of my recent posts, I lost a dear aunt a few weeks back. We had been corresponding by letter for the past eight years. Because of dementia and aging, she had not been able to write for some time. …

A nudge to write — John Steinbeck has been a favorite author of mine since I first read The Grapes of Wrath, a required reading for my college orientation at the University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 1963. It was a pleasant diversion from the sometimes intense preparations for college. No one in…

Thoughts for the journey ahead — I came across this thought-provoking quote in my morning mail: Sometimes the only way we can see the beauty of life is to remind ourselves that it is finite. We all know we don’t live forever, though some of the younger generation may live as if they do. I’ve been…

A Sunday ritual — Today is Sunday. On most Sunday afternoons for the past eight years, I’ve sat at my computer and written a letter to my dear Aunt Wilma. As you may know from my previous story posted here (Last Letter to Wilma), she passed away on July 22nd. …

Do bears poop in the forest? So you know my bias: I’m a registered Democrat and have voted a mostly Democratic ticket my entire life. In my mind, the two questions above have the same certitude. Of course, he will run. He’s lived the Big Lie for far too long…

I Lost a Dear Aunt. My Aunt Wilma, the lady on the left in the photo, was one of the few people left about whom I could say I had known her all of my life. Our relationship grew closer after my dad’s death in 1983. She and my uncle…

The fruits of an amazing project — This week NASA released the first images from the Webb Space Telescope. These dazzling images provide glimpses of the Universe we have not seen before. Operating in the infrared region of the spectrum, the Webb telescope peers deep into space and transmits data back to earth for processing. …