Then and now…

We’ve been watching a lot of the World Cup soccer tournament in the last couple of weeks. We were encouraged by the USA’s first two victories, then bummed when they lost literally in the last second on Thursday against a team everyone thought we’d run over. And not only that, we discovered that we’d beenContinue reading “Then and now…”

The Epstein effect…

A friend of ours recently commented that she thinks former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King and his wife Alice must be “rolling their graves” with the ongoing disclosures about Jeffrey Epstein and his Zorro Ranch. That property was sold to Epstein by the King family in the early 1990s. King, arguably the most consummate politicianContinue reading “The Epstein effect…”

Putting perspective in 2024…

In case you haven’t seen it somewhere else before, I’m attaching a link to Dave Barry’s annual look at the past year — in this case 2024. I am copying this link from the Miami Herland, where Barry worked for many years. In order to read the article, you may have to agree to aContinue reading “Putting perspective in 2024…”