Being grateful

To be honest, I was in doubt whether to write a newsletter on being grateful because this topic is often rehashed around Thanksgiving. But I decided to go ahead for two reasons that are related. The first is that we live in a time when many of us our preoccupied with...

Are you listening?

We all want to be seen and heard, but are you truly listening in your conversations? From my perspective as a physicist, it seems that listening is a simple skill: we just absorb the sound waves, and that’s it! But the reality is not so simple. We only process...

Take care of maintenance

My 19 year old Subaru was doing fine. Well … it had an occasional problem starting. It would need to crank for about 10 seconds and spit out fumes of unburnt gasoline, but then it would run smoothly. This happened only occasionally, about 90% of the times it started...

Embrace diversity and inclusion

In the movie “Our souls at night”, Louis is an elderly widower. One night, his neighbor Addie, who is a widow, comes over with a question that she asks with trepidation. Her nights are long and lonely, and she asks Louis if he wants to come over to sleep with her. She...
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