Russell Rhodes Blog

Let me start with this. I get it. Our border problem is a disaster. What we are doing along the US-Mexico border is just not working. Our policy there is…

A few days ago, I had a doctor appointment that was several miles away. I was driving a busy street and came upon a huge traffic jam. Just one lane,…

I’m still stuck watching the BBC. I guess I will be doing that until the Queen’s funeral on Monday. It really has been something to see. The thousands of people…

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…