Today’s number: 17.9 stone First, my apologies, in advance, for bumming you out. Although not my express intention, today’s topic is hardly uplifting. That said, let me start out with a poem, one I recently forwarded to a friend turning 50: On Himself by Robert Herrick   A wearied pilgrim I have wander’d here, Twice five-and-twenty,…

Today’s number: 18.1 stone I swear that I am not writing this post because I’ve just made a New Year’s Resolution regarding weight loss and fitness. I made the resolution last November in no way associated with the new year. Regardless, here’s the situation: after living the “good life” in Spain for a couple of years,…

I find myself in the weird position of having both sympathy and condemnation for the Palestinians in Gaza. I don’t know whether to criticize the Israelis for all the civilian casualties or to criticize the Palestinian civilians for bringing it on themselves. As to my sympathy for the Palestinians, it’s simple. I believe that the…