Russell Rhodes Blog

I’ll admit that I have been pretty immersed in the coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth. My television stayed with the BBC for most of the weekend. It was…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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’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 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…

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…