Connective Visions

As an Independence Day gift to Norwegian friends, the author suggests they – and other nations – review their U.S. bond portfolios.

Two days after the death of Osama bin Laden, things are turning a bit crazy.

A meditation on whether Americans don’t get exactly the postal service they deserve.

An inflexible mind is rather worse than an inflexible body, even if both have their pitfalls.

The author emerges from the short course in accounting that is U.S. tax time.

A brief revisiting of Valentine’s Day that first appeared via Facebook.

Camilla Läckberg’s The Ice Princess is a lesson in why writers still need serious editors and reviewers.

What is bothersome is the fact that I have been in this hospital with my father, preparing for this appointment, every week for a month – and still, no one seems to have the slightest idea who we are.

Setting online space and real space side by side can prompt a different way to consider our relationships, behaviors, and how we conduct discourse as a society.

Our resistance to positive suggestions and solutions – in world conflict and in our personal lives – undergoes some examination.