This week in a city near my hometown, an accident of historic proportions occurred, the downing of the Frances Scott Key bridge. I offer certain selective observations, mostly about how a recovery could languish. These are not guaranteed predictions because the knowledge and capacity exist to do what must be done quickly, but this is […]

Up until a couple years ago, I would write an essay around graduation time to the hypothetical high school graduating seniors even though I’m pretty sure no high schooler actually reads these pieces, but then again, for now, it’s there to come back to, should NER ever be ‘discovered’. This piece serves the function. My […]

I’m of a mind to ‘lean in’, sorry for the corporate babble by the way, but it does work in this instance. What shall we lean into today? Stereotypes. We all use stereotypes to categorize people so why hide from it? In turn, we are relentlessly stereotyped. Some are accurate, genuine, and have a factual […]

There is a sequence of thought, caution, and action that I must engage in on behalf of myself and my family. We live in a dangerous world, something we’ve forgotten and ignored. Most peoples in most ages, in most societies, lived closer to the edge. We’ve been lucky. For a very short period of time, […]

This evening, we learn that Nikki Haley has been beat in her home state, in the Republican primary. At face value, this is of course, a deadbeat news story. She has won nothing so far, she is predicted to win nothing going forward, and yet she insists that she’s staying in the race. What’s going […]