Ignore the Experts — Try These Approaches to Rid Your Life of Petty Annoyances (This is satire. Relax Karen.) Feeling stressed? Are your teeth ground down to the nub? Do you chronically rub your hand across your face so that the worry lines are fading from your forehead? …

You Ageist Brat. What You Need is a Good, Long Time Out. Aren’t you kids cute? Youth culture. Young adult fiction. Plastic surgery. Our society celebrates youth. Tween films. Young music artists. Teen fashion. Proms and sneaking alcohol. Peer pressure and bullies. It’s nauseating. Your young life and your experiences…

One Professor’s Observation of Higher Education PROFIT MOTIVE AND INTELLECTUAL SACRIFICE Teaching, for me, is a calling. To nurture another human to be a critical thinker, to be an effective and persuasive speaker, is my desired role. …

A Stable Orbit Desired Epimetheus and Janus I don’t have to raise my eyes to know he’s there. I know. I have always known. Even if he is not passing through my horizon, I am aware he exists and we are always we. We are forever. We are elements of the cosmos. …

When it’s time to clean house “That’s enough baggage for three people,” he said as he stared at the pile of duffle bags, suitcases, purses, and crinkled food store plastic sacks. “Consider donating some of that stuff.” “I’m throwing it away. No one needs it,” I said. “Including me.” He…

It’s Time to End Hollywood’s Undue Influence Yes, Will Smith punched Chris Rock at the Oscars. Do I care? Like The Critical Drinker, I agree we must deny the star status to these people. Stop giving them attention. Tweens, virgin teens, social media addicts, and unemployed women with delusional disorder…

The trees, silhouettes against the stormy sky, moan conversations I struggle to understand. Can I imply meaning from the timbre of the sounds? To me, German sounds angry and Spanish sounds passionate. To me the trees’ wails and aches seem complaints to me. Do they speak of the frozen wind…