Railroads have been in the news for the first time in a long time due to what happened in East Palestine, Ohio. But they should have been there quite a while before, because they are a legacy technology that has been largely bought up by private equity companies who are…

A friend of mine who is my age (give or take a year), is in the process of training for Dancing with the Stars. He’s a Star. Don’t ask. I gave up dancing years ago, not because I wanted to, but because I didn’t have any willing partners. But I…

ESG and Me In the midst of a global flurry of supposed interest in climate change, I finally had solar panels installed on my house. …

I went through menopause before menopause was a “thing.” And before telling your daughter about the female reproductive cycle was a thing. My mother told me nothing except that she almost died having me (Jewish guilt) and that having a child is painful (not for me, I had two Lamaze…

This is my first time in New York, the city of my birth, in four years. Post-Covid (sort of) it is still a little frightening because it is always one crowd after the other. Pre-Covid I was not even aware of the crowds because I grew up among them and they didn’t matter. Now they have been converted to carriers of bugs. But I had to go back and see friends and family and, as I have now discovered, a city that I still hold dear even after more than 50 years.

Much of what we think of as the revolutionary culture of Web3 is a recycled version of the “penny stock” schemes that took place when I was growing up. Penny stocks were a replica of shares in public companies sold on the New York and American Stock Exchanges, only they…

I am disgusted. As you may know, I live in Arizona, which has always been a red state. For most of the past 50 years, my vote has been largely symbolic, as my chosen candidates hardly ever win. Arizona doesn’t like progressives, and I am one. However, I’ve accepted my…