Rather than dictating what our elders must do, we should engage in a discourse that includes them in the conversation and considers both their health and their autonomy. To do otherwise is to infantilize them, and disrespects and dishonors our elders.

There is no doubt that human activity contributes to climate change. It is a long-term challenge that we should seek to understand better and prepare to address through adaption and innovation should the worst come decades from now.

Planet Earth, for worse and occasionally better, is a world of neighborhood existence – many neighborhoods at peace, many (most?) neighborhoods uneasy and facing tenuous circumstances, too many neighborhoods experiencing outright anarchy and war. Blame the level of perception, of easy aggregation, for missing this truth. I’ll illustrate with an anecdote. Six years ago, an […]

Because bible-pounding has become a favored tactic of politicians, it was only a matter of time before one of the cabinet choices of the incoming Biden administration would set off screeds of fire and brimstone. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has become the target. Becerra has been nominated to be the Secretary of Health and […]

Uncertainty, ever worse numbers, vanished structures that had organized our lives, a smaller cast of characters in our lives. It just wears you down. And adds up to confusion.