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  • Fighting Suicide in the Midst of a Pandemic

    Fighting Suicide in the Midst of a Pandemic0

    If you’re going to kill yourself, you’re also going to kill the people who love you.                                                                               ~

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  • Fighting Schools to Save Education

    Fighting Schools to Save Education0

    This week an older reader, Ed, sent me an email lamenting the current state of education in our country. He gave several examples, including “I remember when I was about nine years old, my dad who didn’t finish the Sixth Grade had to help my brother with Eighth Grade spelling.” Ed’s email took me back

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  • Fighting Propaganda One Family at a Time

    Fighting Propaganda One Family at a Time0

    Many years ago, my family was partway through dinner on a Monday night when there was a knock at the door. Answering it, my father found – to his great surprise – one of the gubernatorial candidates for our state. This candidate was locked in a close primary battle, and, discovering he had some extra

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  • Fighting Nature by Abandoning Herd Immunity

    Fighting Nature by Abandoning Herd Immunity0

    When I was a kid, I used to love the show “Fraggle Rock.” A creation of “The Muppets’” Jim Henson, it detailed the underground life of the Fraggles. These furry imaginary creatures lived alongside the dutiful Doozers, who quietly built their elaborate, edible constructions. The Doozers built and the Fraggles ate, without any apparent hard

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  • Fighting Loneliness During the Holidays

    Fighting Loneliness During the Holidays0

    As I read through a recent Pew Research Center report detailing America’s dreary numbers regarding single-parent households, I came to a section on aging and living alone. Because I am doing both – collecting Social Security and living by myself in a place where I have few friends or family – I read this section with great

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  • Fighting for the Right to Repair Our Stuff

    Fighting for the Right to Repair Our Stuff0

    It’s hard to overemphasize how new repair restrictions are historically. For most of human history, tools were both produced and maintained locally. Blacksmiths, for instance, furnished items but also maintained them.  Moreover, fashions changed slowly, and people made things to be durable, often repairing and preserving them for a lifetime and even longer. As the

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