My Story is about Belonging
My presentation went well, but not as well as I would have liked. I forgot to say certain things, and I totally blanked on my last critical sentence. “As Maya Angelou said…” I fumbled around searching for it in my head. “Oh goodness, she said…oh goodness, she said…” My slides…
Peace Corps: The Pinnacle of the Democratic Party
“Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”—John F. Kennedy I’m back! My boys are settled into college, and I’m still struggling with elbow tendinosis and SI joint pain. So I’ve had to quit the gym and stopped running for now. Instead, I’ve been walking…
Time for a rest
“I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have, and I want to administer it intelligently.” –Ernest Hemingway I have medial epicondylitis on both elbows and only rest can heal me. I thought I could push through and…
Real Estate v. Nature
“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” —Leonardo da Vinci There are endless things to read, watch, learn, and understand. Sometimes it’s our choice to learn things, just for fun, and…
The Oedipus complex in society
“Our city—look around you, see with your own eyes—our ship pitches wildly, cannot lift her head from the depths, the red waves of death . . . Thebes is dying.”—Oedipus the King I didn’t watch the presidential debate, as I was prepping for my son’s graduation party. I heard about…
Narcissism is a natural parasitic process
“Parasites are not our enemies; they are reminders of our precarious place in the natural world.” —Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex Last week I came across an article: America is the Narcissist of the World. Over the past few decades, extreme narcissism and other psychological disorders have proliferated in…
What are boys and girls made of?
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”—Iris Murdoch I’m going through menopause, and I can tell you for a fact that I am not made of sugar, spice, and all things nice. Boys are not made of snips,…
Digital “Glitches” and Colleges Closing
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” —Gerald R. Ford Last week, I opened my brokerage account and found one of my larger stock holdings down over 95 percent. I tried furiously to buy a…
U.S. Treasuries: From Yang to Yin
“The world consists of Yin and Yang, and understanding this is crucial for anyone seeking to navigate life’s complexities.” Life is complicated. It seems that just when we think we’ve figured something out, the game changes. In Marketland, this usually starts with recency bias: a form of cognitive reasoning that…
Is the USA becoming the former USSR?
“Old Heraclitus, who was indeed a very great sage, discovered the most marvelous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it enantiodromia, a running contrariwise, by which he meant that sooner or later everything runs into its opposite.” –Carl Jung There’s nothing more fun than discovering!…