MARCH 16, SUNDAY
ABUNDANCE (2) Continuing to respond to Ezra Klein’s ABUNDANCE I became aware of a second thing only recently. I will find out soon what I can sell this house for. A neighbor recently sold her house of a similar size
MARCH 16, SUNDAY
ABUNDANCE (2) Continuing to respond to Ezra Klein’s ABUNDANCE I became aware of a second thing only recently. I will find out soon what I can sell this house for. A neighbor recently sold her house of a similar size
MARCH 15, SATURDAY
ABUNDANCE (1) Today Ezra Klein’s new book, Abundance, showed up on Amazon Kindle. I was intrigued by it several weeks ago and bought it and today it was released. I have only read about sixty pages and probably shouldn’t write
MARCH 15, SATURDAY
ABUNDANCE (1) Today Ezra Klein’s new book, Abundance, showed up on Amazon Kindle. I was intrigued by it several weeks ago and bought it and today it was released. I have only read about sixty pages and probably shouldn’t write
MARCH 14, FRIDAY
UNC VS. DUKE BASKETBALL Friday night my son Tom invited me over to his house to watch UNC Chapel Hill play Duke in basketball in the ACC tournament. Chapel Hill University and Duke University are only 8 miles apart and
MARCH 14, FRIDAY
UNC VS. DUKE BASKETBALL Friday night my son Tom invited me over to his house to watch UNC Chapel Hill play Duke in basketball in the ACC tournament. Chapel Hill University and Duke University are only 8 miles apart and
MARCH 13, THURSDAY
OPEN AND CLOSED All my life I’ve needed to travel abroad every two years. Sometimes I have gone as long as five years between trips, but more often I’ve gone two years in a row or even, sometimes, every year.
MARCH 13, THURSDAY
OPEN AND CLOSED All my life I’ve needed to travel abroad every two years. Sometimes I have gone as long as five years between trips, but more often I’ve gone two years in a row or even, sometimes, every year.
MARCH 12, WEDNESDAY
OUTMODED I have written here about the magic of the computer and the computer driven devices linked to the Internet that allow me live much more simply. I have two trunks of handwritten journals that stare at me across the
MARCH 12, WEDNESDAY
OUTMODED I have written here about the magic of the computer and the computer driven devices linked to the Internet that allow me live much more simply. I have two trunks of handwritten journals that stare at me across the
MARCH 11, TUESDAY
BAGGAGE I have written here about discovering in my old age, as I travel abroad to Greece or Morocco for a month at a time, that I can take everything I need in a carry-on bag and a backpack and
MARCH 11, TUESDAY
BAGGAGE I have written here about discovering in my old age, as I travel abroad to Greece or Morocco for a month at a time, that I can take everything I need in a carry-on bag and a backpack and
MARCH 10, MONDAY
SIMPLE LIVING Buddha found that possessions tied you to life and were a burden and that your attachment things was a basic cause of pain. As a rich prince he searched for enlightenment and when it came, under a bodhi
MARCH 10, MONDAY
SIMPLE LIVING Buddha found that possessions tied you to life and were a burden and that your attachment things was a basic cause of pain. As a rich prince he searched for enlightenment and when it came, under a bodhi
MARCH 9, SUNDAY
A RECKONING You don’t need to wait until you die to receive a reckoning, whether you are going up to heaven or down below. And the platitudes mentioned at your funeral or memorial service, are not a reckoning. They won’t
MARCH 9, SUNDAY
A RECKONING You don’t need to wait until you die to receive a reckoning, whether you are going up to heaven or down below. And the platitudes mentioned at your funeral or memorial service, are not a reckoning. They won’t
MARCH 8, SATURDAY
MASCULINE/FEMININE As I have been accepting that MAGA folks are defending traditional American values in a backlash against the threat to their values by liberal values in a changing world it seems more and more to me that MAGA traditional
MARCH 8, SATURDAY
MASCULINE/FEMININE As I have been accepting that MAGA folks are defending traditional American values in a backlash against the threat to their values by liberal values in a changing world it seems more and more to me that MAGA traditional
MARCH 7, FRIDAY
TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES In my discomfort over the last month I have slowly decided that MAGA people are good people who have values very different from mine, but not, however, much different from most other Americans. I think that they
MARCH 7, FRIDAY
TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES In my discomfort over the last month I have slowly decided that MAGA people are good people who have values very different from mine, but not, however, much different from most other Americans. I think that they
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 