Hohokam Chance SimonOctober 15, 20251 “Chance favors the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur Pasteur’s is a more elegant way of saying “luck...
DECLINE Old Age SimonOctober 14, 20250 ”Old age and the wear of time teach many things.” Sophocles There are advantages to being old. In some...
Politics Wage and Price Controls SimonOctober 13, 20250 “Wage and price controls have a long history, almost all of it bad.” John Steele Gordon In An Empire of...
Hohokam Doing Business SimonOctober 8, 20251 "The chief business of the American people is business.” Calvin Coolidge The photo is from Mesa Verde NP....
Ideas Autonomous Vehicles SimonOctober 2, 20251 “Within our lifetimes it will become socially unacceptable to take the wheel yourself.” Stephen McBride...
Maxims Arguing SimonOctober 1, 20250 “There’s no sense in arguing over what you can’t change.” On the other hand it is only through arguing...
Politics Despair SimonSeptember 30, 20252 “Despair is a mortal sin.” William F Buckley I could list all of the government actions that could cause...
Family Words Seldom Seen: Liminal SimonSeptember 26, 20250 Liminal Adjective: In-between, in transition, in an early stage of development. Example: "Since they were...
Hohokam Enough? SimonSeptember 22, 20250 "America takes in as many legal immigrants as the rest of the world combined." Ben Wattenberg in Fewer The...
Travel Words Seldom Seen: Lacuna SimonSeptember 19, 20251 Lacuna Noun: An unfilled space, a gap. Example: "The lacuna in the book was the lack of discussion of where...