Covid-19 and Health Insurance
I’m in a bit of a panic, so I haven’t done a search for any diaries that may have covered this topic already. Our son works in IT at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. A co-worker of his has...
View ArticleHow Simple It Was
The end is in sight.The end that was planned for us. The end that was by design.The crowning success of a psychological war.They have made us forgetwhat is was like in the past.What used to be...
View ArticleA Not So Easy Choice
With the suggestion that *rumpf will attempt to buy the November election with an even bigger stimulus check for Americans, what to do with my next check is an easy choice. I know immediately what I...
View ArticleI Don’t Mind Being A Test Case
I came back this evening and noticed bfskinner’s diary is gone, as well as several community posts expressing sympathy and regret over his situation. Maybe a lack of interest bumped them off the...
View ArticleBroken
He sat on a park bench at dusk, facing a soccer field, lost in thought. Trees already leafless, the air was chilled but dry. Thinking of the hypothetical of being able to undo a single past decision, a...
View ArticleA Very Different Christmas
2020 has triggered my anxiety and irritability levels to the point where everyone expects me to chill. They may be right, so when my son and our granddaughter came over for Christmas eve, I did my best...
View ArticleTennessee Update: Flyspace Around Nashville
Not really a surprise, but very suggestive of all the investigatory depth around what’s going on. Governor Bill Lee has request President Trump to declare a state of emergency in middle Tennessee, and...
View ArticleShelter From The Storm
The events of the last few days have sent me scurrying for shelter from the storm. Watching cute animal videos wasn’t quite doing it for me, so I retreated into some high school memories for a spell,...
View ArticleComplexity
It seems like everything is up for grabs in this newyear of 2021. So I have decided, what the hell,just do it, go for the gusto, grab the golden ring.Reach way up there, and solve the meaning of...
View ArticleTiny Things
The University of Tennessee Forest Resources Research and Education Center is a 250 acre property in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Most of the work undertaken here would not be visible to the casual visitor....
View ArticleEarth Day 2021
Earth Day 2021. I may remember this day as the first day of the rest of my life. Absolutely a cliche. Our retirement has brought us back to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a peculiar little town that is...
View ArticleA Disease Called Capitalism
I should like to start this piece of personal observation with a disclaimer. I have no expertise in political science or economics. I have attempted in the past to read Marx’s Das Kapital and could...
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