As I was out running in 20-degrees today in Duluth, I thought: AI, deep fakes, inescapable advertising, misinformation, propaganda; desperate people saying and doing anything to win, to survive, clinging to their self-esteems, their brands, and of course, their smartphones; nominal leaders refusing to lead us into peace but hungry…

by The City of Duluth Dubbed “climate-proof Duluth” in 2019 by Jesse Keenan, a Tulane University professor… Duluth has been hailed for its ample supply of fresh water, as well as its location — buffered from sea-level rise in the Upper Midwest — and temperatures, which run mild in the…

Many Boomers like me (born just after World War 2 when the Soviet Union and USA threatened to destroy the world in order to save it) will tell you that growing up with the anxiety of possibly being incinerated by a tsunami of radioactive death at any moment was a…

Rumblings of secession, partition, or “national divorce” as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R- Georgia) calls it, are growing. Ominous as it sounds, the negotiated dissolution of our chronically cantankerous Mommie-Dearestland becomes less scary every day as a sensible alternative to armed conflict which, as in actual divorce, is the worst…

Really want to stick it to The Man? Get off the couch and take a walk. When that politician/star/guy at work torques you again, hop on your Peloton and ride until you’re too tired to be angry. It’s minus 10 outside and you can’t handle one more episode of “Walking…

When newly-sworn President Lyndon Johnson marched in the funeral procession for murdered President John F. Kennedy, reporters asked him why he wanted to risk walking in public. Johnson reportedly said “I’d rather die than be afraid to die”. It was a quote I read in 1963 when I was nine…

Bobby Hull died this week at 84. Besides being one of my childhood heroes, breaking hockey scoring records, inventing the curved stick, having a slap shot faster than Apollo 11, winning awards and a championship, he went on to break my heart by leaving my favorite team for a record…

One reason I wrote about living with physical pain is to help others develop a better relationship with it so they don’t succumb to it. Now, a new article in Scientific American shows more Americans are in persistent physical pain, handle it poorly, and ruin their lives. Here’s one crucial…

Yeah, my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play Leonard Cohen, “Tower of Song” There isn’t a morning I wake up and don’t hurt. It might be a knee — next day, a shoulder. Maybe my forehead or a…