Take a look around. History is now. The Covid-19 pandemic has altered our daily routines in a way few other events in recent memory have. Like the week after 9/11, the skies again belong to the birds, but unlike that tragic week, we cannot gather together at our local restaurants and watering holes to discuss …
There was a very popular song sung back in the 1960’s by a group called The Searchers named Love Potion No. 9. It sings of a man unlucky in love who visits a gypsy for help with his loneliness. After taking the potion, he scampers around town with such passion that he kisses everyone who …
The cost of healthcare in the United States is staggering. It far outpaces the rise in the costs for other goods and services. And, as the heavily populated baby boom generation begins its slip into old age, basic economics dictate that rising demand will spread supply, serving only to make costs skyrocket even further. There’s …
It is late in the Fall ten thousand years ago. A gray evening sky presses from above, the scent of wet leaves from the ground below. A lonely hunter expertly stalks an unaware deer to the edge of a clearing before him. He’s in range, pulls a arrow from his quiver and inserts its nock …
Is there anything more sublime than the chewy crunch of a corn chip covered in fresh oven-melted shredded cheddar cheese? Or, how about the instant gratification that comes with a warm plate of sea-salted sticky-toffee bread pudding? In the moment of their indulgence, probably very little compares. The problem with indulging in these moments is …