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Progress is still possible even with a divided government.

A brief, long-ago moment with Joe Biden that speaks to who he is as person.

Should you take a bite of this Apple?

COVID-19 has shredded many of our routines. You may need to make some new ones.

Good, bad, and interesting things about self-publishing my novella.

The election results will just be the first domino in a chain of events to come.

I’ve been experimenting with new apps to see if any can help me cut through the gloom of 2020. By far, the most effective has been Endel.

With the Electoral College and the state-based Senate, the Framers of our Constitution wanted to avoid tyranny by more populous states over more rural ones. Republicans are now are edging close to the reverse.

I’ve always been a bit “STEMy,” but only in the Technology sense of Science
Technology Engineering and Mathematics. I hate math. Or, at least I thought I
hated math until I tried Brilliant [https://brilliant.org].

You may know Brilliant from educational advertisements that show STEM problems
being solved in visual, animated ways. Those ads are awesome. Looking at them,
it feels like you’ll soon be John Nash in A Beautiful Mind, minus the
schizophrenia.  We may as well put all this COVID-19 time

Tommy Tuberville won Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary against Jeff Sessions by nearly 30 percentage points this week. I am a liberal. You may be a conservative who strongly supports Donald Trump. Regardless, you should be deeply disturbed about what Tuberville’s landslide victory means for the Republican Party and our nation.

I strongly disagree with Sessions on almost every political issue and didn’t want to see him back in the Senate. But, the news that Alabama Republicans consider Tuberville a

I have a confession to make. I didn’t vote in the 2016 presidential election for
the United States. I know, it’s horrible. I’m horrible. In my defense, I didn’t
think I was allowed to vote.

Being Stateless (Or At Least U.S. Stateless)
We moved away from Virginia and the United States in late 2012 for Switzerland
and then in mid-2019 on to Indonesia. While we have remained U.S. citzens, we
have not been residents of a U.S. state since 2012.

Since I wasn’t a resident of a U.S. state, I didn’t th

Hi, all. My murder mystery novella is now available as an Amazon paperback in the United States and United Kingdom in addition to earlier eBook versions. Please give it a read and help me spread the word!