Author Archives: Harold

Thoughts on Getting Angry

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Harold

I choose not to waste my life being angry. This morning I – with several thousand of my closest friends – got an e-mail from 350.org telling me that it was time for me get angry and support a federal … Continue reading →

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Reflecting on Disaster Response

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Harold

Incidentally, I’m a Red Cross volunteer, and I do Disaster Assessment – which is morphing into a broader Situational Awareness activity – on Disaster Relief Operations. These DRO’s are the ones that make the papers, and that is as it … Continue reading →

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“Vegetarian” is an Old English Word for “Bad Hunter”

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Harold

I frequently don’t make the ethical choices that I feel I ought to make. This would be less of an issue for me except that I have a friend who consistently makes better choices; and, although, she never makes an … Continue reading →

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The Appearance of Political Polls

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Harold

I’ve often said that a bi-partisan political system doesn’t work for me (or, apparently, for a lot of other people given voter turnout). I took a poll of my compatibility with declared or likely Presidential candidates here, and the results … Continue reading →

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50 Years? Has it been that long?

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Harold

I was driving around on errands today and feeling my arthritis a little when it occurred to me that I’m getting old. By this time in June, 1965, I had already graduated from high school and enlisted in the Navy … Continue reading →

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A Word About Denying One’s Id

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Harold

Nancy Gordeuk revealed a bit more of her private self than she probably ever meant to the other day in Stone Mountain, GA. She’d already screwed the pooch by ending the graduation ceremony of the school she founded before the valedictorian’s … Continue reading →

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Distractedness

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Harold

There are things that I might write about here, but I appear to be unable to focus. I’m in the process of yet another migration; this time a bit south into San Diego County. Sheryl Sandberg’s Facebook post after Dave … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Parenting

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Harold

I am mindful today of violence and destruction. On the one hand we have a 7.8Mw earthquake that has taken more than 4000 lives and destroyed Nepalese cultural artifacts dating back hundreds of years. On the other we have whatever … Continue reading →

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Is Jimmy Coming Out?

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Harold

You may -but probably do not- know that Jimmy Carter is one of a couple of well-publicized people I think I’d like to have coffee with. In 1976 the guy who brought us home while leaving the South Vietnamese to … Continue reading →

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Openly Secular?

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Harold

I put a daily almanac up on Facebook for no other reason than that it amuses me, and I noticed that Thursday is Openly Secular Day. It didn’t make the cut for my almanac since I was already out over 430 … Continue reading →

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