Postcards

Today I got two postcards. I don’t normally get much personal mail. The first was one of those fake hand-written cards that offered me cash for my house. The second was a

Picking Blackberries

The running trail is overgrown along the sides and there are wild blackberry bushes mixed in with the weeds. Several people were harvesting the blackberries. This was not a casual excursion. They had

Amazon Whole Prime Foods

Amazon is finally bringing the benefits of their prime program to Whole Foods, which they acquired last year. It rolled out in NC this week and the store associates are doing their best

The Class of 2018 is Angry

At my daughter’s graduation there were six student speakers. Every single one of them spoke about issues related to school shootings, racism, immigration, acceptance of diversity and complacency. And they spoke about

Pomp and Circumstance

Today my daughter graduates high school. She is my younger child. My son graduated two years ago. I have very mixed emotions as my children grow up. The cute little kids they were