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How many times have we heard the term “New Normal” when we’ve seen images or heard accounts of western wildfires, mid-west tornados, eastern floods, and diminishing polar ice caps? My internal reaction to the statement is to say, “Not so… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I’m afraid to say this out loud for fear of jinxing it, but we live in an area of the country that is a sweet spot when it comes to severe weather and geological events. To be clear, we’ve… Continue Reading →
On occasion, I am motivated to write. Subjects vary but increasingly over the last few years I have written about social and political observations. I’ve assembled this collection of essays, some of which have been previously published, that are focused… Continue Reading →
[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] Being a car guy has always been in tension with my profession as an environmental engineer. It is difficult to resolve this internal conflict, and recently, I have given it… Continue Reading →
I think we have all experienced situations when someone sets out to actively avoid knowing something – even with ourselves. We’ve done it occasionally like when we avoid looking under the hood of our car to find the source of the… Continue Reading →
**This piece has been modified from the version previously published in the Levittown Leader.** Does anyone remember the Global 2000 Report? Perhaps you know of it by a different name – the Doomsday Report. Living in Levittown in the late… Continue Reading →