“The Paramount concern of man is status: how to achieve it, how to display it.” Tom Wolfe, author Why are people willing to spend $300 more for an Apple product than for a functional equiv...Read More
It is the season when platitudes substitute for policy. I’ve written about it before but it bears repeating: someone is speaking in platitudes if you can’t imagine a normal human adult bel...Read More
Ten Positive things about the COVID Pandemic: Plexiglass is fashionable again. People are decluttering and giving the postcards to me. The pandemic news takes your mind off President Trump’s lat...Read More
The paradox of travel: We all want to go to the same beautiful places and we want to be the only ones there. Photo is of a beaver dam in Lindy Canyon in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mtns....Read More
“The US doesn’t have a virus problem it has a politics problem.” Jan Nicholas, Consultant to Giants In early July I was going to Yosemite to meet the family and friends and we decided that it wa...Read More