Sometimes I think we, as a culture, are learning and improving. Other times, I’m pretty sure we are all going to hell (WAAGTH). For example, on one hand, I feel—totally anecdotally—as if more people know better than to have a loud conversation walking down a public sidewalk, exposing fellow pedestrians to TMI. (My favorite awful […]
One more post about our trip to Maine and I promise we’ll stop. On our last morning, we packed our bags and headed to Campobello Island, over the border in New Brunswick, Canada. We had a long drive to Boston after Beth’s last workshop session that morning, so we wanted to leave out directly from […]
Beth and I and Gus had close and deep encounters with the U.S. healthcare machine earlier than most of our contemporaries. Beth and I were in our 20s when we got a birds-eye view of the Rube Goldberg mess that we call a system. We did get mostly good care most of the time. But the time […]
Today I’m happy to share a post by our dear friend Milton Otto. Milton lives in Urbana, Illinois. We met Milt years ago at an Urbana watering hole called the Iron Post. He was running for city council and had just come in from an evening of knocking on doors. We struck up a conversation […]
No matter where I’ve lived, and no matter where I’ve traveled, I’ve noticed a commonality, and I’m not sure it’s heartening or not: It’s the love of so-good-they’re-bad punny names for certain businesses. Not all businesses mind you, but for some reason, certain businesses just bring out the best/worst in their pun making owners. Take […]