Some food for thought (if you find that you’re hungry for it today) from Yvon Chouinard. (He pronounces his name yuh-vaan shwee-naard if you're wondering.) Throughout, I’ll just call him Yvon, because he seems to invite that kind of familiarity with … [Continue reading]
Everyday on the news I hear stories about the disproportionately negative impact that some event, disease, or change in the weather has had on a particular group. It's social media’s disproportionate harming of teenage girls. How Covid-19 is more … [Continue reading]
It’s been a busy week for me, and not in a good way. It was probably RSV that took down the first three days of it in a torrent of congestion and runny nose, until I felt my old self begin to return on Thursday, only to discover while heading out … [Continue reading]
I live on a ridge that shoots in from the City boundaries in the northwest and descends, first gradually and then by leaps and bounds, as it reaches towards sea level in the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. At our point in this descent, a … [Continue reading]
A lot of people seem depressed to me. It's particularly disheartening when their rage against the machine casts a pall over the smiles and chat that they’re aiming in my direction. We all process life’s traumas differently of course, but many of … [Continue reading]
