Perspective – Beating the cynicism disease
We’re all going to be OK. That is the inescapable conclusion I have reached. I was at a minor league baseball game a few weeks ago, scanning the crowd between pitches. There were families enjoying […]
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We’re all going to be OK. That is the inescapable conclusion I have reached. I was at a minor league baseball game a few weeks ago, scanning the crowd between pitches. There were families enjoying […]
One of the few fringe benefits of this pandemic is the fact that my 50th high school reunion was canceled. That’s right, the Conestoga High School Class of 1971 has let the coronavirus get the […]
It’s been a busy year for the researchers here at Sampson Laboratories (motto: You can never do too much useless stuff). One of our intrepid scientists is coming up with an easier way to make […]
The other night I had a dream – a nightmare, really. The kind that caused me to sit bolt upright in bed, sweat pouring off me. It was horrible, so bad that I was afraid […]
History, as they say, is yesterday’s news. That being the case, I shudder to think about the history we are writing these days. Discussion and debate appear to have given way to something else entirely. […]
Every day at noon I take a walk through the north Salem neighborhood where I work. Aside from a handful of people making their way back and forth to the grocery store, most of the […]
If the year 2020 were a movie, it’d be Rocky. Round after round, we were pummeled as our defenses were breached. It was not pretty. But as the end of the year arrived, the music […]
Last March, right after our fearless leaders decided to start shutting down the economy because of the coronavirus, I was sitting in a friend’s office. “If this goes on more than a couple of months, […]
It’s about those masks. Occasionally, I get an earful from friends and others about how the requirement that we wear a mask when buying ice cream and soda pop at the grocery store in some […]
It began on a recent Monday afternoon. A day that had begun with bright blue skies and happy chatter among house guests was transformed. First the wind started. Not a breeze, it was the kind […]