I recently read a New York Times article about sandwiches. The tagline to the article was “the things you can do between two pieces of bread.” The popularity of sandwiches is universal, because they can be simple or complex.
It’s fair to say that the United States has never seen an election year like this one. We face a presidential choice between a convicted felon bent on dismantling the institutions and norms that we’ve developed over nearly 250 years, versus a sitting president whose debate performance and general age concerns have stoked calls from within his own party to step aside.
There’s a lot going on in the world. The Far East is bad. The Middle East is worse. The political landscape of this country feels like a post-apocalyptic Cormac McCarthy novel. Thus, in these very serious times, Beyond Reason will now consider potato salad.
I have a beaten up old green sweater I should throw away. I can’t wear it in publicl It’s that worn out. But it’s so comfortable and cozy, I hang on to it. I mend it when the holes are too big and I cut the raveled threads dangling off the sleeves.
Recently, I was asked who my favorite teacher was and I have been thinking about favorite teachers off and on for days. I keep asking people who their favorite teacher was, and I enjoy hearing the responses, some serious and some funny.
The buzz over the U.S. Surgeon General’s New York Times op-ed calling for warning labels on social media apps and platforms is an important admission that Big Tech’s products are harming and killing American youth.
In June 1889, Litchfield was the site of the Grand Army of the Republic’s Northwestern District Encampment. At the time it was said to have been the “biggest time in the history of our city.” The G.A.R.
One day my 10-month-old formerly feral male cat escaped, He slipped out the door with the speed of lightning. It was as though he had dematerialized and then materialized outdoors.
Though the pace won’t really pick up until the fall, federal election campaigns are well underway. And we’re hearing a lot about a welter of key issues like abortion, immigration, the ethics of the Supreme Court, wars in Europe and the Middle East, and the like. But at a time when candidates should be engaging the electorate on the country’s biggest challenges, here’s something they’re not talking about: The national debt.
When I use the word “hack,” I say something like, “I cannot hack it.” I mean I cannot continue to do it. I have had enough.