Some years ago, a young, sorta-hippyish couple knocked on my front door. They had noticed that I had fig trees in the yard, laden with summer fruit. If I wasn’t going to pick them all,...
Ho-Ho-Ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. To each of our Congress critters, I sent my fondest wish that from now on they receive...
This holiday season got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas, Hanukkah, and other holiday gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving — giving...
Here’s a twist on Christmas that would make Jesus weep. First, a right-wing faction in the US has been wringing its hands over a hokey cultural “crisis” cooked up by the faction itself, namely that...
In a world that’s clogged and choking with a massive overdose of plastic trash, you’ll be heartened to learn that governments and industries are teaming up to respond forcefully to this planetary crisis. Unfortunately, their...
What does your toothbrush and your running shoes have in common? Plastic. We now live on Planet Plastic, billions of tons of waste from everyday products made of these chemical contaminants are strewn literally everywhere...
Advertising has been characterized as rattling a stick in a bucket – a noisy cry for public attention. One example of this crass hucksterism is the rush by top executives of multibillion-dollar corporations to splatter...
‘Tis the season, right? Traditionally, this time of year celebrates spirituality and festivities – including Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. In modern-day America, however, the Winter Solstice signals the faithful to gather from afar in monumental...
As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story. Over the years, though, I’ve learned when to quit tying myself into mental knots over sentence construction,...
Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact that while the US economy has been coming back… you haven’t! “Labor shortage,” they squeal,...