It’s an important topic to me, as I am one of the “chronically lonely” elders that seems to be a thing these days, and have suffered from depression, diagnosed so long ago that it was called “Manic Depressive”.
Mother’s Day 5/8/22
The point that I am trying to make is that, as a society in general, we tend to downplay the role of mothers, and frequently don’t give them the respect they deserve.
Testing Games 5/7/22
Somewhere between game night involving boards and cards and the advent of the personal home computers, which was actually a fairly narrow sliver of time, there were the video arcades.
Famous 5/6/22
“Well,” he said in a serious voice, “I think you should get out of bed, come upstairs, and have some sponge cake with General Michael Miltstein of the Soviet Union.”
Inclusion Compounds 5/5/22
Being that this is such a critical key to chemistry, it may surprise the reader to learn that there are “compounds” that do not follow this rule. They are called “non-stoichiometric compounds”, such as, for example, inclusion compounds.
Do No Harm 5/4/22
Loss of civil rights is not so much because of those who vote them in as it is those who fail to vote them out.
Condoms 5/3/22
Linda and I settled on the Trojan variety pack, three style with two condoms each. It was perfect, she took three and I took three. I’m guessing she went through them rapidly, but mine went past the expiration date before I had a partner.
Tusks 5/2/22
Leave it to humans to covet the defensive mechanism of animals, such as the tusk of elephants, the blubber of whales or the shells of great sea turtles. Learning to hunt and kill from a distance, we’ve hunted all three animals nearly to extinction
Creativity and Learning 5/1/22
A few times in my life, I’ve had that intuitive leap. I still remember a few of them, and as a former teacher, it was those leaps that I loved most about working with students.
Family Generation 4/30/22
until managers recognize the needs of their younger employees, there will always be friction.
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