HAPPY JULY 2nd!

(Spoiler alert: I had so much fun putting this together several years ago that I feel a reprint is in order !) No, that is not a misprint. It is the date that John Adams (in a letter to his wife Abigail, dated July 3, 1776) predicted would be the [Read More]

By |July 4th, 2024|Odd stuff|

Fear and Decision Making!

Recently,  I stumbled upon an article about  women, fear and decision making. According to a recent study published in PLOS,  these three concepts are related: … fear may affect women’s decisions in choosing immediate rewards versus larger delayed ones, while men’s decisions appear unaffected by emotion, ….  (Science Daily  at [Read More]

By |March 29th, 2024|Odd stuff|

Happy Thanksgiving !!!!

Once again, Thanksgiving is upon us. Last year- 2022- I posted the blog below which I believe is as relevant today as it was last year. So, I would like to share it again. And.... again I want to thank each of you for such a great year. I  deeply [Read More]

By |November 21st, 2023|Odd stuff|

Is Mediation like Quantum Physics?

Happy New Year! I hope that everyone’s 2023 is full of joy, happiness, peace and prosperity…. and brings an end to this pandemic! Browsing the internet for inspiration, I came upon an article in Live Science concerning quantum physics entitled “Does reality exist when we’re not looking” by Paul Sutter. [Read More]

By |January 13th, 2023|Odd stuff|

86,400 Seconds

Last week, I posted a blog about the shortness of our working life and whether we really want to spend it embroiled in litigation. That post reminded me of a much earlier post (dated October 1, 2007) in which I looked at time in terms of seconds in a day [Read More]

By |October 1st, 2022|Odd stuff|

The Known and the Unknown

      At a February 12, 2002, news briefing, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld explained the limitations of intelligence reports: "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we [Read More]

By |November 5th, 2021|Odd stuff|
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