Three weather fronts collided off the New England coast in 1991 – and the subsequent movie in 2000. The Gloucester fishing boat Andrea Gail tried to endure but could not survive the onslaught. Everyone was lost. We have as a society encountered a collision of “fronts” that have left us reeling. The US mortgage crisis […]
It is so very easy to get angry about the current situation in the US. Pandemic, recession, hurricanes, flooding, fires, earthquakes, protests about racial injustice, attempts to pack the Supreme Court and undermine elections are all woven together over the past six months. It is almost a perfect storm of calamities. My anger is not […]
“Everything will work out in the end and, if it doesn’t, it is not the end.” This was a theme in the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) but attributed to Paul Coelho and John Lennon much earlier. I am an inveterate optimist, but I am reconsidering my inclinations. Look how we have handled […]
