Today is Tu B’Shvat. “What?”, you say.
Oh, it’s the New Year for Trees. When we recognize the role we play in keeping this world healthy, where we plant trees- or if there are too many, we provide funds to cull the forest to keep it healthy and nourished.
Continue reading Could have been 95
I just saw the modern West Side Story (recreated and reconsidered under the direction of the estimable Steven Spielberg). Sure, I saw the Broadway production of the show at the Winter Garden Theater, on Broadway between 50th and 51st Street. (I also saw the Music Man in that same location.) I also saw the movie version (several times) at the Syosset Theater (Long Island, NY)- one of the premier movie theaters in the USA at the time.
Continue reading West Side Story Stirs Memories
Unintended circumstances. Boy, do we do those well. (In other words, we don’t do things all that well.)
Continue reading Let’s not always just rush in…
Can you believe it? We are allowed to file our taxes starting 24 January. But, more importantly, the official tax season will end on 18 April (19 April in Massachusetts and Maine). Not May, not July, not October. For the first time since the pandemic began.
Continue reading It’s Almost Tax Time
When will it stop?
Yes, we all know that we have inflation- mostly due to weather related issues blocking our supply chains. But, health care costs (yet again) jumped almost 10% last year. (That’s more than double the previous year’s increase of “only” 4.3%; one of the lowest in a while.) This one, though, is the highest increase is 2 decades! Coupling that with our modest drop in GDP (gross domestic product) means healthcare glommed some 20% (compared to 17.6%) of the economy last year.
Continue reading Through the roof?
We keep hearing about folks having to drop $ 1000 a month for insulin. It’s simply reprehensible- especially once you know the cost to produce a dosage of insulin is less than a buck!
Continue reading The real drug crime in America?
6 January 2021 was not an unprecedented assault on the American Democracy- despite the words of those who so claim. After all, that is what the American Civil War was. But, this was the second instance, perhaps as grave a breach as the Civil War.
Continue reading An Assault on Our Democracy
What hath the pandemic wrought?
Continue reading What’s behind that mask you’re wearing?
How best to introduce this blog post? I have pondered for days- which is why this has remained in my queue for so long. Well, cerebrations and deliberations are over…
Continue reading The shot heard round the world?
