EV Buying Advice
Prepared as handout for Lititz Borough residents following passage of an ordinance affecting placement of EV Charging Stations, March 2023 Things to Consider Before You Purchase an EV or Plug-In Hybrid This is not intended to advocate for or against such a purchase, simply to bring to your attention some things you may not have…
Touchstones
Every year, following the annual ordeal of reducing the mountain of mulch dumped in our driveway, I dutifully wash down the wheelbarrow and the shovel we roll out every spring to accomplish that task. Each time, I carefully rub a coating of oil on the shovel, least it rust during its long annual sleep. In…
Trump Rides, or Slides, Again
Just when you thought he was over, irrelevant at last, about to ride into the sunset, it looks like Donald Trump may make another mucus-slimed slide out of trouble and back into the limelight. We really thought we had him. All the legal pundits on MSNBC said this documents thing was the low hanging fruit.…
Dial “D” for Disaster
If you’re old, read on. If you’re not, ignore this. You have enough other problems in your future as it is. You might describe my current mental condition as fraught. Or overwrought. Or angry as hell. It’s not just Putin and his barbarism and nuclear threats. It’s not just the impending doom of climate change,…
The “O” Word
It wasn’t that long ago, in a conversation with our millennial familials, that I used the term “Oriental” in describing someone. Oi! One would think I’d uttered the actual name of God and that the Earth was about to be rent asunder. Apparently, unbeknownst to my wife and I, the term had entered the realm…
Giving Up?
Generally my musings in this space run to a pretty uniform length. But this time I’d like you to consider just three images from the recent news. First, the whining and literal weeping of Gen Z’ers over their inability to spend hundreds, if not thousands, to purchase Taylor Swift concert tickets. Next, the news footage…
Quiet, Please!
Maybe it’s a function of old age. Or it could be the tinnitus I trace to that earplug-less airboat ride in Florida many years back. But I am increasingly annoyed by the noise that permeates our culture. I’ve previously written how I love our nearby Target because they have no blaring music to accompany my…
Deflection Points
There are times, happenings, even moments, in our lives that truly change their courses. When this thought recently occurred to me, I looked back on my 76 years and thought about the most significant in my own. Likely the first was when my father died. Funny, that Sunday he’d called and asked if we were…
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