DECLINE Aging Three (Nostalgia Week) SimonNovember 19, 20140 "We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe." from A Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes First...
Trees Trees #38, Desert Willow SimonNovember 18, 20140 This is the new Desert Willow tree that we planted in our front yard to replace the Birch tree that died. It seems...
Simon Says Life Rules (Nostalgia Weeks) SimonNovember 17, 20140 These are some “Life Rules” that I wrote for one of my nieces some years ago. I think they have withstood the...
Maxims Politics Alert SimonNovember 16, 20140 “Monopolies invariably produce bad products at high prices.” Ted Forstmann speaking about Taxi and Public...
Maxims Counting On SimonNovember 14, 20140 “You can always count on family” may not be literally true, but it is more true than: “You can always count...
Postcards Radio Flyer SimonNovember 13, 20140 "By changing the scale the ordinary can be turned into art" Simon Spokane, WA Public Art Other...
Ideapreneur How We Adopt the New. SimonNovember 12, 20140 Cost savings trickle up. Quality improvements trickle down. New technologies disrupt everything. Change...
Trees Trees #37, Mt Baden-Powell 2 SimonNovember 11, 20140 I took this photo up the trunk of a dead pine to highlight the perfect sky and the airplane contrail. Well...
Immigration “Us” versus “Them” SimonNovember 10, 20140 In the 1970's Henri Tajfel a social psychologist at Bristol University conducted a series of amazing experiments about...