Meandering Monday about My Survivor’s Guilt

Back in February, my employer decided (despite an improving economy) to continue with their plans to reduce payroll, and they let a large number of experienced, knowledgeable, and talented people go. We’d been hearing rumors for months that this was coming, and various scenarios about who would be laid off. I fit into a number … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Random Acts of…

There was a story in an old reader that I remember (even though it was over fifty years ago, I remember it – maybe because I had to read part of the story out loud in class and pronounced “magician” as “magi-Key-an”; yes, public humiliation is also a good memory trick.) The story was about … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about What It All Means

I’m not very good at life – or being human. I often joke that I’m not human – the joke goes one of two directions, either my being an Immortal (due to my damnably undeserved good health), or as an offshoot of a StrengthsFinder survey, which showed me to have the following five skills – … Continue reading →

Fidgety, Festive Friday: Feeling Frightened?

So, here we are in the HOLIDAY SEASON, and Kim Jung Sequel continues firing missiles and making threats. Hasn’t he heard about PEACE ON EARTH, and all the other SEASON’s GREETINGS? We could ask the same about the Iranian Mullahs, the Isis remnants still struggling to be relevant, and a host of other ne’er-do-wells. No … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Soul Survival

I’m watching Orson Scott Card’s Extinct ; as it’s premise, the human race was annihilated by aliens a few hundred years ago, and now aliens are trying to bring back humanity by creating new bodies (same DNA) and loading them with the memories of the dead. But who are these “people”, really? Even with the … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Life in the Holiday Lane

(Cue The Eagles “Life in the Fast Lane”) (No, wait – don’t – too hectic and depressing. How about “Let it Snow”? Yeah, that’s the ticket…) Here we are in the last quarter of the year, and like it does so often, everything feels like it’s come to a standstill. It’s like being in bumper-to-bumper … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Yes, There Will Be Changes

The only thing we can be sure about in the future is that it will bring changes. Race relations and the criterion of our bigotry will change. I just finished reading Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, in which it was commented that the moon’s citizens were puzzled by Earth-dwellers’ obsession with race or … Continue reading →