Snatched from the jaws of victory — I’m a Democrat. Or I was, until around 2015 when I began losing faith in the anti-Trump movement and the blue party’s reaction to the groundswell of populist pro-dictator support. I was re-energized when Biden began — with our active and hearty support — beating out the more progressive presidential…

Love and death in the time of Covid — It’s October 2022 and my life feels serene, happy and exciting in most ways. Nevertheless, I feel a heavy sense of emptiness, almost meaninglessness, and I’m a little numb. Here’s what happened since May 2019 that completely reshaped my world, leaving me in some ways a better man, and in…

Telling on myself, hoping to help someone — I’m in a world of pain, since my beautiful and devastatingly smart and kind and funny partner ended our relationship. I’ll offer some thoughts on our journey, my journey, and online dating, in the hope that some of this may be helpful to someone. Backdrop I lost my beautiful wife last…

Don’t give it away. Kill it. — Your Ring camera is helping you sleep at night, dutifully catching thieves, vandals, burglars and maybe even an occasional raccoon or squirrel terrorizing your front porch. Congratulations! However, did you know that your Ring camera is yet another scheme by Jeff Bezos and Amazon to promote white supremacy at the…

Go ahead, slam the Forward Party, because you’re afraid. — Forward, the renamed Forward Party, formed in 2021 and in July 2022 launched across national news chatter, aims to take advantage of America’s political polarization to finally establish a third political party that might actually gather electoral might, unlike previous attempts whose only success was a spoiler effect reducing Democratic…

We lived and we loved, well. — Most people don’t write about the death of a loved one before it happens, but here I am, nursing her, and writing about what’s going to happen. My beautiful wife Debi has been the sun and the stars in my life since 2005. I knew her a little before then…

And… does it have to be this way? — Although I love my job and the company I work at…. my personal assessment of corporate America is that 90% of corporate america is shit. 90% of jobs in corporate America are horrible, toxic, go-nowhere jobs and most people in these jobs know it. 90% of managers in corporate America…

Some thoughts on the great resignation — Lots of interesting articles on Medium about the great resignation, how work sucks, bosses suck, and how many people simply refuse to go back to work. As usual, it gets politicized. The red people say shut up and get a job, and they say we should cut all unemployment benefits…