I don’t know about you but I feel as if time is speeding up. That’s impossible, of course, as Albert Einstein reminds us in the first episode of Genius. Time proceeds at a steady rate but our perception of it does not. A day on the beach flies by in an instant but an hour in the endodontist’s chair takes a week to pass.
I try to avoid politics in The Next Phase blog but sometimes it just intrudes. The last five months have felt like five years of waiting for yet another root canal.
I don’t want to know what’s happening in politics at the same time I follow the news obsessively for the latest developments. Bill Maher jokes that CNN is going to change its “Breaking News” banner to one that reads, “He Said What Now?” Rachel Maddow connects the dots better than anyone else but I don’t have five hours a week to watch her show so I watch now and then.
In “Just a Song Before I Go,” Crosby, Stills & Nash sing, “Traveling twice the speed of sound it’s easy to get burned.” That’s certainly how I feel. And it’s ongoing.
Still, despite the turmoil and confusion, the constant shifting of the ground under our feet, Susanne and I have continued to write. In May we covered a pretty broad range of topics. I started a new series on how some of Boston’s streets got their names while Suze took on Net Neutrality and prescription drugs.
Roundup of May 2017 Posts
Here’s the roundup of May 2017 posts so you can catch up on what you may have missed while government was turning topsy turvy.. Plus I added a short story, “Voices in the Dark,” to the website and will post another one this month. Enjoy.
Boston and History
- The Sunflower Castle on Beacon Hill Flat – Aline
- Boston Street Names: Who? What? Where? – Aline
- Wigglesworth Street on Mission Hill – Aline
Business and Technology
- Real-world Numbers on Robots and Unemployment – Aline
- The Net Neutrality Debate — Susanne
Entertainment: Books and Movies
- Geography, Butterflies and Life Choices – Aline
- Alien Covenant – Hit and Myth in Outer Space — Aline
Friends and Family
- What Makes a Family – Susanne
- Being Mortal – Susanne
- In an Instant the World Can Change — Aline
Health and Nutrition
- Linking POTUS, Diet Coke, Aspartame and Dementia – Aline
- The High Cost of Prescription Drugs — Susanne
Language
Lifestyle and Culture
- The Way Things Used to Be — Susanne
Now that summer is here I hope we can catch our collective breaths and enjoy ourselves. I don’t think that time will slow down soon, though.