Yes, You’re Reading Another COVID Thinkpiece

What does hygiene, patience, and common sense have in common? Plenty when it applies to COVID-19.

No Room At The Workplace

Over the weekend, two New York Times (credit to SI’s Richard Deitsch for highlighting these links on his Media Matters column this week) articles about unemployment in Europe and here in the United States, reaffirms my belief that the middle class is extinct, or on the verge of it…and it is time to create a…

Now, It’s Time to See If It Works

I thought I said my peace with it, but it feels like I’m talking to a wall. In 2010, I wrote that I am my own health care system. I wrote this in response to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I need to do what I need to do to take care…

Don’t Follow The Sheep

Sheep. They stick together, graze together, and if one goes, then all of them go the same way. It’s the human version of silo thinking.  When you think a certain way, then it’s hard to open your mind to listen, read, or see different ideas or viewpoints. But in life, you don’t have to follow…

The Death (or the Evolution) of “The American Dream”?

“The American Dream” is a national ethos of the United States in which freedom includes a promise of the possibility of prosperity and success. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or…