I recently finished reading “The Creative Act: A Way of Being,” a book by record producer Rick Rubin. A particular sentence on page 319 jumped out at me: “The world is only as free as it allows its artists to be.” Given last week’s news about Paramount axing “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” most likely due to Paramount capitulating to the Trump administration so their merger goes through with Skydance Media, we need…
My last update on the Cyber Cleanse I have been conducting was at the end of March. What have I been up to since then? It’s a bit like a tedious soap opera, with a few surprises as I go along. Once I cleaned out my primary Gmail accounts, I needed to sift through all my other online accounts, those for which I was using these email accounts as the user name. Let me say…
I grew up with the advice to drink 8 eight-ounce cups of water per day. It’s a feat I’ve rarely managed to achieve. I thought I was doing well when I managed to drink 4 eight-ounce cups a day … half the recommended amount. I have since learned that this one-size-fits-all recommendation isn’t the last word on any particular individual’s daily water intake. The Mayo Clinic says several factors determine how much water you need,…