Author Archives: Lorne Anderson
Just a Reminder
It has been a log hot summer. People have been complaining about the heat and humidity. I’m one of them. It won’t last though. In the near future we will be complaining instead about the cold and snow. In the dog days of summer we forget how much we hate winter. When the snow is […]
Signs of our Times
Do they do any good? The rallies, the protests, the signs? Driving through North Conway, New Hampshire, I noted a demonstration against ICE (that’s US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), probably a protest over the recent shooting of an immigrant. Not the first time ICE has killed someone who had committed no crime. i thought about […]
A Matter of Respect
Or artificial intelligence. Or smart phones. Some of us are even old enough to remember when there were no calculators. We used slide rules. Each generation has a different approach to education. Sometimes the differences are slight, while at other times there is a seismic shift in how information is imparted. Is one way better […]
Filling the Space
I have three posts I was considering for today. This isn’t one of them. I’m on vacation. Most of this week’s posts were completed last week. The weather has been great and I have been spending 12 hours or more daily on the beach. Finishing a blog post requires motivation. Motivation requires rain. Even for […]
Rules of Grammar
There are always exceptions. That’s what makes English so fun. Or should that be frustrating?
Getting Older
Given the state of the economy, this might not be an unusual sentiment. mind you, today’s seniors don’t have living parents to move in with. I remembered of this cartoon last week when reading the obituaries in my local newspaper. As is customary, it was mentioned that one woman had been predeceased by her parents, […]
The Women’s Game
Are the floodgates opening? Will women’s sports survive? Last week Enes Kantner Freedom declared himself for the WNBA draft. He is a recently retired National Basketball Association star, a human rights advocate, and looking to make a point I guess. Immediately afterward Royce Wight, another retired NBA star, followed suit. The 6’10” Freedom would be […]
The Problem with War
I wrote this piece more than four years ago, when the conflict between Russia and Ukraine was in its infancy. I put it aside for editing and then forgot about it. Today I finished it. While Justin Trudeau is no longer Prime Minister, the rest remain true. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has framed Canada’s […]
Googin’s Rocks 2026
For some unknown reason having to do with algorithms and search engines, a lot of the people who discover this space do so though Googin’s Rocks. I have no idea why. but my previous posts of these outcrops in the Atlantic at Old Orchard Beach, Maine, are among the most viewed posts here. I didn’t […]
More Driftwood
I love walking on the beach early in the morning before the crowds arrive. usually it is just an expanse of sand, but sometimes the waves bring in some interesting wooden shapes.
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