For many people around the world, today is New Year’s Eve, and a particularly special one because tomorrow will be the start of a whole new decade.  However, the calendar is a sort of common delusion:  a means of organizing time for the convenience of all concerned that has become codified into our consciousness as [...]

If you are having a bad year, or two or more, be like Madonna and reinvent yourself. To quote a cliche . . . “Necessity is the mother of invention.” The dictionary lists Invention as “A mental fabrication” . . .Inventive as “Adept or skillful at inventing; creative’ ingenious” . . .and Inventor as “One [...]

Lo, Christmas is past, and the New Year is approaching! Which means it’s time for… New Year’s Resolutions!   1. Resolved: I will eat right. My personal chocolate consumption  in 2009 was substantial enough to help efforts to rebuild the worldwide economy.  This coming year, I vow that the economy will have to find someone [...]

Each holiday season for the past seven or eight years, I’ve received a card from a family we’ll call the Craigs. They followed me through a major move with a few temporary addresses in between. And they haven’t dropped me from their card list over all these years, even though I have never responded Why [...]