TRUTH ALONE DOESN’T MAKE YOU PERSUASIVE OR WEALTHY
Just being correct brings fewer gratuities in the hospitality business If you are looking for the irony of life, I recommend hiring a brilliant Turkish historian whose livelihood depends upon […]
TO ACQUIRE THE SUNNY UPLANDS OF GREENLAND FREE.
If you love Nova Scotia, you may like Greenland I’ve been to Greenland, and if you love ice, granite, brightly painted houses and mosquito-free winters, it is a big, beautiful […]
SACRIFICE ONE EYE TO BLIND YOUR NEIGHBOR?
Four times in my lifetime America has discovered helping someone helped everyone. In Bulgaria, you can hear an ugly story of neighborly distrust. A farmer discovered a bottle, rubbed it […]
FALL AND RISE OF GRANDRE MAN
How I stopped searching for glory and found it barefoot on the lawn Like many men, I prefer the heroic version of my life. Triumph. Audacity. Grandeur. Master of the Universe stuff. When I look backward, I do not see one complete life. I see something more like the Andes—a […]
FORGET THE 250TH CELEBRATION. FOLCLUS ON THE 3.5 billionth.
Your ancestors who arose from the non-living deserve a shout-out. Scribes, anchors, columnists, and other professional worriers are already preparing us for the national agony of America’s 250th anniversary. Washington, D.C. will be draped in bunting, speeches, security barriers, and anxiety. There will be solemn talk about the reflecting pool, […]
VOLCANIC VENT TO LOST CAR KEYS
YOU’VE EVOLVED SO MUCH. COME SO FAR. WHERE’S THE KEYS? FIND THOSE DAMN KEYS? I was rebuked by ChatGPT recently. While writing about homo sapiens, our allegedly superior brains, and […]