The Craving for Simplicity 150 years ago, in a shack he built-in the woods, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Simplify, simplify, simplify!” In saying this, the Harvard grad and one-time pencil maker tapped into a seemingly perennial human yearning for simplicity in
Category: Life – The Big Picture
Columbia House Record Club – RIP
This past week it was announced that you could no longer buy 11 albums for one penny as Columbia House – the most famous of the “record clubs” of the 1970’s – finally called it quits. More lament for this aging
Big Speakers – The Circle of Life
I grew up in a magical time in a magical place. The time was the early 1970’s. The place was Southern California. During that time, there was a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of musical talent and new musical technologies that created a boom in
Video Games – What’s the Problem?
For our twelve-year-old boy, all roads lead to video games. I don’t like this. It bothers me, a lot. Frankly, I don’t know what to do. When he is not playing video games, he’s either thinking about playing games or talking
Labor Day – How I got the perfect job!
There was a time many years ago when, more than anything, I wanted a job that would give me “most evenings and weekends off.” That would be my perfect job! At the time I was reaping the rewards of some