Tag Archives: politics

Keeping Your Dreams Realistic

We all have dreams, of one kind or another, but sometimes a person’s dreams can sabotage his entire life. One of my clients had been told by a religious leader, whom she respected greatly, that she would be a powerful voice and that her words of wisdom would be known throughout the world. From that point on, everything she did, was with that thought in mind. She stopped living, thinking that whatever she did and said might someday be her …

Facebook Friends

I’m sitting here, wondering at the ease with which some people are able to make friends both, on Facebook and in real life. Granted, it’s a lot easier on a virtual reality site than it is in real life, especially for introverts but, still, it’s an amazing dynamic. As a newbie, I thought I might make a few Facebook friends, but that’s really all I ever expected to make. I interact with some posters but not many, and not as …

Early Voting

When the early voting locations opened on Monday, I hurried over there. It was a beautiful, sunshiny day and I was going to do my civic duty, something that I’ve always considered a privilege, not a right. I’ve never missed voting in a primary or a general election but, this year, I could have easily given it a miss. Our present governor is a known crook whose company defrauded Medicare and had to reimburse the federal government over $600 million …

The Dinner Hour

We hear so many opinions about why the foundation of the family is disintegrating, that I think I’ll add mine to the mix. When I was growing up, dinner was a sacred time. I don’t mean sacred in a religious context, but sacred as in everyone came to the table when dinner was served, and dinner wasn’t served until everyone was seated. No excuses. Sacred as in no one was allowed to talk on the telephone during dinner and no …

Risk-Takers and Voting Age

There seem to be a lot of opinions about whether we should lower the voting age to sixteen, and some of them have to do with whether teenagers take more risks than adults or whether they are more impulsive than adults. How they tied this all together is anyone’s guess. I doubt if the age of a person has anything to do with being impulsive or taking risks. Every time I hear of an adult, and I don’t mean just …

The Right to Change Your Mind

I have always said that most of our day-to-day decisions are not a matter of life and death and that if you make a bad decision today, you can make a better decision tomorrow. That said, I’m going to use the get out of jail card and say that I’m contemplating changing my mind about the legalization of marijuana that I wrote about a couple of months ago. I used the fact that if Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack …

More Than You

I keep running across articles that talk about our current age as being equal to twenty or thirty years younger, e.g., today’s 65 is yesterday’s 45, or today’s college graduate is yesterday’s freshman high school student. We keep hearing about baby boomers and millennials being immature and dissatisfied with their lot in life. Millennials are also depicted as narcissists, and I wonder if the reason they are perceived that way is because they haven’t found a cause to embrace that’s …

Girls Outpace Boys in College Enrollment

At the time I entered college, there were very few girls in my classes; boys dominated the enrollment by a vast majority. And when they graduated, they could count on getting a good job in just about any field. Girls, on the other hand, were greatly in the minority, and when they graduated, their options were marriage, teaching, or nursing. Boys have always been encouraged to learn science, math, engineering, and technology, the fields that led to excellent job opportunities, …

Politicians Are Liars

Just about everyone these days has come to the conclusion that all politicians are liars. Some have even been called serial liars, as if that separates them from the regular, daily lies that other politicians tell. I’m not defending the lies that politicians tell but I’m wondering if we hold them to a different standard than the unintentional lies that the rest of us tell. I’m saying that many of our lies are unintentional because we have faulty memories rather …

Chelsea Clinton’s Salary Hoopla

I may be naïve but I can’t see what the big hoopla is over Chelsea Clinton’s whopping big $600,000 salary as a special correspondent for NBC News. She is not running for public office and she is not a war correspondent. She is not even an Anchor for NBC News; she is just a special correspondent for “feel-good pieces.” In the world of big business, we all know that it’s not what you know but who you know. In Chelsea’s …

Connie H. Deutsch