Troy Rampy Note: This article was originally posted to my FaceBook page on October 22, 2020. I’m sitting here in Auburn this morning with no Internet, no landline, no cell, and alas … no Alexa! Everything dead. Just silence. Feeling isolated and cut-off. And it occurs to me, if Russia really wanted to bring us to our knees, this is one way …
“What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.” So spoke the late Congresswoman, Barbara Jordan, in the 1970s. It was true then. It’s true now. It has always been true. But I believe we are further from that now than perhaps at any other time in our history, including the Civil …
I have never written an unapologetically political post for this site. Today I’m changing that. We all know it. We see it nearly every day. People are beginning to “boil over” in regard to our current political environment. Notwithstanding the financial crisis of 2008, our national psyche and sense of wellbeing have not experienced this much tumult since the late …
We know that stories and story-telling have long been a central focus of human experience. It began with our ancestral forebears. The evolving consciousness of Homo sapiens set us apart from the other animals of pre-history and gave rise to, among other things, cognitive abilities, spoken language and the capacity to imagine. With the capacity to imagine came questions: Who …
Most of us enjoy the fact that we are relatively self reliant. As much as possible, we like being in control of our life. We like knowing that, if we do the right things often enough, there is a greater likelihood that our life will be more enjoyable, more satisfying, more meaningful. But there is one area where we are …
Recent studies show that money is one of the main causes of stress for many people. But then, most of us don’t need researchers to tell us that! Especially, not now. Today, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress in his bi-annual report that there are ongoing indications the economy is slowly recovering. However, most of us are still painfully …