2022 Articles

January 20, 2023 Mr. Newsom: I am currently back in the Redlands (Florida) helping my aging and memory-challenged mother out (an essay for another day) — but still read my Times daily thanks to the wonders of modern technology.  I\’ve also been watching the national news and catching CNN whenever I can and  Guvner, I\’ve […]

12/31/2022 The Amazons were a group of female warriors and hunters who beat men in physical agility and strength, in archery, riding skills, and the arts of combat. Their society was closed for men and they only raised their daughters, either killing their sons or returning them to their fathers, with whom they would only

December 11, 2022 I don\’t blame the UC (University of California) researchers and TAs (teaching assistants) who are currently striking in the slightest (I\’ve been there and done that!).  They are at the bottom of an extremely bountiful food chain.  They are like the dogs in the medieval court that get thrown the scraps after

November 30, 2022 I wish I could claim to be the first to have coined the acronym of the DSA (as opposed to the USA) — but I was not.  The Divided States of America is a concept born from the genius of another.  I have been known to use the objective pronoun \”US\” when

October 31st–November 6, 2022 This Halloween had to be the most frightening I\’ve ever experienced (and I\’ve had a few doozies that included strange dogs and headstones) — not only because 154 people were trampled to death in S. Korea —  but because US seems firmly divided on which party should be running the country;

October 1, 2022 (My father would have been 100 years old today.) There is some dispute as to how old Ollie III (our goldfish) was — and there is also some dispute as to whether He was a goldfish — as He never assumed the rich golden color that most goldfish do in the 9

September 20, 2022 Mark Twain suggested that \”of all the animals — man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.\” So, violence seems to be inherent in our genes.  And because we are a very violent species — and because schools