Don’t Forget About Sunk Costs
2014-25-2014 – Okay. It was a bad year. Lost job. Illness and death in the family. Last kid is off to college and we’re alone. Friend dies. New job is […]
Tag Archives: Life
In Every Generation—We Make History . . . Or We Don’t
2014-12-14 – My young friend Donna apparently attended a demonstration yesterday and was harangued by a member of my generation about how young people these days don’t know how to […]
Congress Is Usually Pretty Happy to Have Its Power Usurped
2014-11-23 – I’m kinda pleased that the House is suing the President. It’s about time that Congress got upset about the usurpation of its power. Congress is generally pretty happy […]
The Dead Editor
2014-11-18 – My friend Bob Redman would have been 74 years old last week, but he didn’t quite make it. He left us suddenly and unprepared. His memorial service was […]
Near Snow Experience
2014-11-16 – You call this snow? Nat did. Kit and I visited Nat yesterday in Beloit, WI, where he goes to school. He was complaining about the unseasonable cold and […]
Listen, O Israel!
2014-11-02 – Good Morning Daylight Wasting Time! Isn’t that what you should call it? It’s the alternative to Daylight Savings Time. We are now plunging into the darkness of winter. […]
Flying at Dusk
2014-10-30 – I like to fly at dusk. This doesn’t happen often. It depends on the time of year. And it may depend on which direction I am flying. The […]
It Could Be Worse. We Could Have Sidereal Time
2014-10-28 – Lefty’s first walk of the day is now in darkness. So is his last walk. The days are getting shorter. For just short of the next two months […]
The Purfuit of Happinefs
2014-10-21 – Don’t know if Thomas Jefferson coined the phrase “the pursuit of happiness,” but he surely made it popular when he included it in the Declaration of Independence: We […]
The Children’s Table
2014-10-19 – Just got back from taking Lefty on his early-morning walk in the park. The sun was still low, lighting the treetops in greens and yellows and reds. The […]
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