Some folks are explaining the cost of living is going up due to extremely rich people manipulating the currency and the markets. While this is true and has a terrific impact on our lives and our wealth, this is not the whole story. “New Improved!” “The Joneses have one. We must keep up.” “Faster than…
Yes, we’re tackling one of the big ones this week: Love. Right off the bat, I want to say I am not going to define love. If you don’t know what love is, maybe when you read this you’ll catch on. Also, I want to make it clear that love is not just a physical/emotional…
Many of us will remember Data, that cute, not so cuddly android robot from Star Trek Next Generation who wanted to feel emotions like a human. Yeah, he was a gas and lots of fun to watch. He seemed to know everything. I’ll bet he would give us a caution about how data is collected…
I was walking to pay a bill. It wasn’t far, so I walked to save gas. With the prices so high, I do all I can to save that precious commodity. I might also mention that I was prepared to pay cash for what I owed. I like cash. All that electron created money makes…
It was a frustrating morning. I spent most of the morning trying to get into my bank account. I entered my user name and password and got a message “access denied, wrong password.” How the hell could it be wrong? The computer saved it and computers are never wrong, right? So I went through the…
We had a nice day the other day. The sun was shining through the chemtrails, the half dozen birds still alive were singing, and I was frying chicken with the kitchen window open. A fellow I know from up the street was walking by and I could see he could smell the sweet scent of…
The first time my future was predicted was by my mother. She told me, “If you don’t clean up that mess like I told you, I can tell you what will happen next.” Well, I knew what she was getting at and didn’t want that future for myself. The next time my future was predicted,…
I’m not going to ask you to give up hope, but I will explain how your hope is being used to addict you which is a way of using it against you. Hope is something we all need to keep from getting too negative. Hopium is false hope. Hopium is what someone tries to generate…
