Through the Looking Glass
My Life as a Futurist
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For eight years back in the 1970s, I worked for a consulting firm that specialized in forecasting the future.
Through the Looking Glass
Forty Years of Book Club
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My book club recently celebrated its 40th anniversary with a dinner party at a local country club.
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Flooded with Photos
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Recently my father moved to a nursing home and I became custodian of the family photographs.
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It’s Election Time — Let’s All Play Nice
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It seems to me that people have gotten more vituperative and just plain nasty in discussing politics.
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Letting Go of Defensiveness
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The work of Eckhart Tolle, especially his book The Power of Now has had a slowly growing impact on how I think about human behavior, my own and that of other people.
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Does the Universe Have a Purpose?
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When I was a novice librarian working at a community college, a young man came in with a “reference question.” The question was “Does the universe have a purpose?”