Think about what you like and the choices you’ve made throughout your life – the clothes you buy, the spouse you chose, the books you read or the art that attracts you – and then ask yourself, why those? Why not others? Objective reasons will no doubt play a major role for choices that are [...]
I’m aghast at Trump’s election victory, as are virtually all my friends, for reasons that have been listed over and over in editorials and private conversations. There’s no point in reiterating them. An email I just received from a long-time friend said, “I’m devastated and in mourning after Nov. 8. Am ashamed and embarrassed to [...]
To what extent does the future govern the present in our lives? In an earlier blog (Time: Real and Imagined; January 2, 2016), I raised this question. Let’s say I was guaranteed (impossible, of course) that I would live an extended life, but I was also assured that planet Earth would be destroyed a year [...]
