I’ve had a little trouble wrapping my head around this concept of “mandatory health insurance.” While I get the idea, and after first hand experience of the mess of American health care, I’ve been curious how “mandatory health care” works.…
Category: Observations
The book chronicles the music industry from about the 50s on through the Wrecking Crew, which played on an awful lot of popular, famous, award-winning songs. A theme throughout the book is change. Perhaps adaptation is a better word.
Yep. There are no turnstiles to board the trains. I found this rather peculiar at first. Still do. There’s no incentive to purchase a ticket, except to avoid harsh penalties if you get caught by a Translink cop. Translink trains…
I just ran across this post on NPR’s #fb page. NPR Needs the Sounds of Your City. The sounds of my city…immediate thought: the “L.” There is nothing quite like the sound of the “L” as it rumbles by overhead,…
This lack of skyline thing has been nagging at me, like a splinter in mind. I see mountains every morning on the train to work. Some days they look beautiful, majestic. Others they look menacing, threatening. And other days, just…
Day started off like the previous two or three. Woke up at 2:30am, rolled over and eventually fell back asleep until 5. Checked a message from Dad and opted to go back to sleep. Perhaps that was the start. Everything…
I was awake, again, at 2:30 this morning, and thankfully, again, able to fall back asleep until 5am. I can tell I’m stressed. I’m anxious, panicky. Not quite paralyzed with fear but it’s a little harder to keep putting one…
Yep. All packed. It’s been quite the emotional roller coaster the past three weeks. Lots of emotions to sort through, along with stuff, and some tough decisions. Experiencing decision fatigue. This is hard, on many levels, and it’s hard to…
I’ve been struck by how easy it is to slip into old habits at home. Until today, the weather has been fantastic, so instead of sitting up in the study, i’ve been working from the sun porch. The change in…
While living in temporary dwellings, I took advantage of the cable TV and watched the local evening news. I was struck by two things: 1. Vancouver local news lacks the political charge of Chicago news. 2. The Canadian cable provider…