Thinking about Queen Elizabeth.
I wasn’t going to write a blog post today, but the breaking news caused me to rethink that. As I write this, there is great concern about the health of…
Quiet quitting. Quiet firing. Part 2.
I wrote a few days ago about this post pandemic phenomenon of quiet quitting and quiet firing. Workers doing the bare minimum at their jobs. Employers not actually firing, but…
Quiet quitting. Quiet firing.
On this Labor Day, a look at where we are. The new normal. New phrases to think about. Quiet quitting. Quiet firing. Quiet quitting. We’ve been talking about it for…
United we stand, divided we fall.
This is hard to write. I’ve deleted and rewritten several times the last couple of days. I’m in bed watching a movie. “Arrival.” One of those first contact movies. The…
Something else lost.
I think we will spend many, many years learning how the Covid pandemic upended our society. We lost so many lives. We know that. It’s the other things that we…
Gorbachev.
When the news came across my phone yesterday that Mikhail Gorbachev had died, I got a little nostalgic. Gorbachev was the last leader of the old Soviet Union. He brought…
I doubt we see much.
I’m wondering if this is what we are going to see when the redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit is finally released. Just a lot of blacked out words and lines. A judge…
I was wrong. (And other things.)
I remember the days when you waited until after Labor Day to start your political campaign for a November election. Not anymore. It’s the morning after the primary. I was…
Primary Election Day.
It’s primary Election Day in Florida. So far, it’s been a rough and tumble season. The political ads have been tough. Really tough. One of the big decisions to be…
“Old-fashioned corner druggist.”
I spent some time this weekend going through some boxes I’m sending to storage. In one of them, some of my pharmacist dad’s tools of the trade. Ray Rhodes had…