I am not Irish. For some, that might seem sad; others are grateful. But I want to take a moment to talk about celebrations from which some may feel excluded. Think how the Irish feel about all humans qualifying for membership. I haven’t met an Irish person who objected to a global membership. It is…

I could have chosen to write about my ‘wealth gap’ – the difference between what I need to retire comfortably and what I actually have. I could have chosen to write about the wealth gap between Bill gates and me. I decided on a different exploration this week. I chose to write about the wealth…

I crave loneliness at times. But other times, I crave social interaction. And those feelings of craving come from deep within. So what gives? At times I crave chocolate. How are these feelings generated? Let’s check out this rabbit hole. First, we don’t know very much about our innate cravings for social interaction or for…

I was reading about ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) brand that first caught the world’s attention several months ago. Since then, AI has exploded into our lives, like it or not. Microsoft, Google, and all the big players have announced their own versions of this next generation of AI. I was very curious in its…

I like that title. Time to have a bit of fun and see if you can add to the list. My spell-checker is knot always write. It caught the first error but not the second. My grammar checker didn’t notice either! Take time to clarify you’re thoughts before righting. Hopefully I’d catch that one. Another…

I was reading a movie review recently. The author, whom I enjoy so much even when he pans a movie I liked, had a turn of phrase. I liked the concept and played with the words to arrive at this Blog’s title. I expect you’ll know the inspiring idiom of ‘the acorn doesn’t fall very…

I used these two jigsaw pieces to represent the silo and the shark. These two apparently unrelated items have a relationship similar to the puzzle pieces – but at opposite ends of a continuum. Silos are those grain storage structures I see in the countryside, clustered around the farmhouses. I can see them from different…

I haven’t read the book by this title. If you Google the title, you’ll find the book listed close to the beginning. This is followed by many other references to the issue that the internet is preventing us from forgetting. Recently, well this past year, I have tried to sort out issues with my subscription…

I am approaching my mid-seventies. Things are being planned about which I won’t learn the outcomes. Occasionally, but on increasing occasions, I realize my time is finite. Here are a few examples. Let’s start with a long horizon. Some scientists are beginning to predict the end of the earth. The molten core is cooling at…

I recalled my days as a social worker, particularly those years as a child welfare worker. I’d be called into the home at a time the family was often at its worst. The children were at all sorts of immediate short-term risks, such as neglect to physical abuse. The parents’ coping choices were no longer…