Category: Opinion

What’s In a Word Anyway?

Well, the other day I was sitting outside my favorite bakery/coffee shop on LaGuardia Place (a three-block stretch in Greenwich Village) with nothing much to do when I picked up a free copy of a local weekly newspaper. I read about the happenings in the Village and with time on my hands worked on the puzzles included with the paper.

Who Are the Brain Police?

While the DGA went down to the wire in negotiations with the film producers AKA streamers, it is important to recognize the decline of all the influencers in our current motion picture and television industry.

Maine’s Spartacus

A battle for Maine’s Senate seat and with it a possible U.S. Senate majority for the Democrats in 2027 has grown from a seed to a forest since a September 2025 New Yorker article launched Graham Platner’s career in politics.

Living in the Upside Down

I’m a fan of the Netflix series Stranger Things. In this sci-fi coming-of-age thriller set in a 1980s small-town America, teenagers face their fears of growing up and transitioning to an adult world with all of its peculiarities.

Forgetting to Be Yourself

Though we might not recognize it, in these and many other moments in daily life we relax into our true nature and are freed from the exhausting job of defending or promoting our conditioned self. One might even call this falling effortlessly into the reality of one expansive mind a form of “everyday enlightenment.”

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    Recently, I experienced the loss of my 18-year-old dog, Rosie. For nearly two decades, she was woven into the rhythm of my daily life — present through ordinary days, major milestones, moments of joy, and periods of hardship.

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