Hope or Nope

My wife and I will get our second dose of the Moderna vaccine today. 

Unintended Consequences

Has there ever been a novel with more resonance than Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”? 

Calculations

 I was a child adding machine.

Forgiveness

A good marriage - an enduring marriage - requires forgiveness. From your wife. You will do stupid things, say stupid things, forget non-stupid things because you are a man and your picture is next to the word stupid in the dictionary.

Truth or Lies

I've wondered how it is that people fall for lies, believe in lies, defend the lie, deny any facts that out the lie, happily embrace a new rationale for the lie in those rare circumstances when the original theory of the lie is disproven by observable, ineluctable fact. I'll admit, it's become more of a rhetorical question than a field of study at this point. After all, what is the truth?

Brain Tumors

I worked my entire post-food service life in offices. My first such gig was working as a clerk in the registrar's office of a non-fictional New England college or university. There was a woman who worked there I found to be completely and utterly detestable.

Endings

They say everything ends badly (or else it wouldn't end).

They also say all good things come to an end.

Ergo, all good things end badly.

Or is it that bad things never end?

More importantly, who are they and why do they keep saying these things?