A Weird Thing Happened

I was going to write a post about something else, but the world events are too distressing. Why are there people so willing to traffic in hate? We’ve been having the Russian-Ukraine war which seems to have settled into an ongoing noise where it sits in the background because neither side is winning. At least,…

I read the news over the New Year about those fires in Australia. I just don’t see how those deniers can keep denying. 500 million or 1 billion animals dead (I see two different numbers quoted)? Between all of those flooding, the category 5 hurricanes and those fires, I can’t see how it can be…

Yesterday, just before going to bed, I checked the weather, thinking Otis was going to hit Mexico as either a tropical storm as it was in the morning or a Cat 1 level hurricane. But Cat 5!?! I was not expecting a Cat 5 hurricane! This morning I went checking the news to see what…

I’m back. I’ve been away at a Managers’ Conference and had no access. And, for about a week before leaving, I was preparing for it, and I also had problems with the WordPress site. Or maybe it’s my machine. Ever since I installed the Gutenberg plug-in I’ve had problems with this site’s administrative page or…

Okay, I’m not actually in Norway riding the rails but you can pretend on YouTube. One night I was trying to see what was being put out in YouTube to get a sense of what people were feeling and how they were reacting to this crisis when I briefly saw something about riding the rails…

Okay, this is the night before election day and there is so much dire news out there. Everybody seems to be talking about “end of ______________”. All of that talk is making me anxious. But it is not just talk, it’s a couple of incidents leading up to the day: constant threats towards doctors, teachers,…