by Barry Phegan | Feb 12, 2020 | Aging, Living Life, Social comment
A friend loaned me her copy of Gratitude (Knopf, 2019) by Oliver Sacks. Its spare 40 pages hold four beautiful little essays, each a memory or reflection written by Sacks in the closing years and months of his life. Though each essay yields many...
by Barry Phegan | Oct 7, 2019 | Aging, Living Life, Social comment
Man Plans, God Laughs. While life is largely a self-fulfilling-prophesy — we get what we expect — unmet expectations can be devastating. Even little ones can spoil our day. Having expectations is human. They come with our imagination. We can’t let go of...
by Barry Phegan | Sep 18, 2019 | Social comment
(Spoiler alert — Answer at the end.) Environment — Who gives you the right: To treat nature and our earth as consumable resources – or as a dump? To slice off mountaintops, build reservoirs of poison, and walk away as if you did nothing? To clear-cut forests,...
by Barry Phegan | Aug 28, 2019 | Living Life, Social comment
The Baroness Fighting to Protect Children Online from the New York Times, August 27th, 2019 Beeban Kidron has successfully pushed stricter limits on how tech companies can target children online in Britain. By Natasha Singer 27, 2019 Credit Eleonora Agostini for...
by Barry Phegan | Jul 14, 2019 | Social comment
I just finished reading Tara Westover’s remarkable memoir, Educated. It’s a story about the destructive effects of a controlling leader. For Tara, that leader was her father. For Tara — and every child — becoming an adult includes coming out from under parental...
