I stopped making New Year’s resolutions about 10 years ago.
I found that my resolutions were a focus on what I had done wrong the previous year and what I had to make right in 2022. Resolutions had me looking backward and remembering the negative; what I did wrong last year instead of looking forward and […]
I was spot on with my predictions for 2021.
The year turned out to be more similar to 2020 then I would have liked, but with some important changes. Small businesses were able to get back to work with some limitations in supply and staffing. While the supply chain problems and inflation were predictable, […]
Last weekend, I was hiking one of the most difficult trails in Phoenix- The Piestewa Summit Trail. It’s literally a two mile straight up (and back) rocky terrain trail. I had climbed Camelback Mountain here several times and I thought this would be similar. I was wrong.
As I hiked alone at dawn, there were […]
I remember the day that the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare for the final time (I thought). That day, my spouse, Sara was able to quit her job since she was working just so we could have healthcare for our family.
This was consistent with so many people who stay at their jobs just for the health […]
Four time Olympic Gold medalist, Simone Biles pulled out of the Olympics for medical reasons. It was later disclosed that she had been suffering mental distress and what she said was “the twisties“. She describes this as a disassociation with her body where gymnasts to lose their sense of space and dimension in the […]
The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 to 1919 was horrible. It was first identified inside the military in Kansas in spring 1918 (It was during WWI). About 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. Deaths were at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the U.S. […]