Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS about holidays are that they give us a chance to relax and take a break. But sometimes, I think we take that break without thinking about the important reason why we’re getting a day off in the first place. It’s easy to do that with the mid-January holiday we get
ONE OF MY FAVORITE Elton John songs is Funeral for a Friend. It kicks off Sir Elton’s 1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album that has sold more than 20 million copies and “is widely regarded as John’s magnum opus,” according to Wikipedia. The interesting thing about Funeral for a Friend is that it is an “instrumental
THE PASSING OF JIMMY BUFFETT, the famous singer of “Margaritaville” Sept. 1 at age 76, got me to thinking: what would I say today if I knew I was going to die tomorrow? I wonder about that because Jimmy Buffett’s death seemed to come suddenly, although some media reports say that he had “a lengthy
I’VE WRITTEN MANY goodbye notes over the course of my career. That happens when you have worked a long time. But what I’ve found is that writing a goodbye note can be challenging and difficult to get just right. I have had a lot of practice writing them, and much of what I believe about
A FEW WEEKS AGO I published a blog post here titled Are you an overbearing manager if you identify with The Devil Wears Prada? This may have surprised some because it was the first one published on The Skeptical Guy since July 25, 2019 — nearly four years ago. I added a short Editor’s Note
EDITOR’S NOTE: Charles Krauthammer died June 21, 2018 at age 68. RIP Charles — we will miss you! SOMETIMES, I FEEL THE PULL of my Native American ancestors. My Indian blood lines are from my great-grandmother Marion Beavers, who was from the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island. I feel them tugging at me sometimes, particularly
NO MATTER HOW you felt about him, the death of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, who died last week at his famous mansion in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles, was one of those passings that got a lot of people worked up. Since Hefner passed away at the ripe old age of 91, a
