by Barry Phegan | May 25, 2021 | Social comment
A recent article in the New York Times used the word gaslighting. It sounded familiar but I had to look it up. The term comes from a 1944 movie with Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, and that always-a-villain, Charles Boyer. In Gaslight, Boyer drives Bergman...
by Barry Phegan | Apr 19, 2021 | Aging, Social comment
What do social issues have to do with 70 and Older? My Answer: Social issues are important to me, and I’m over 70! Furthermore, making a contribution, a desire to give back, is human. Some of us oldies want to share a little wisdom and insights to hopefully...
by Barry Phegan | Feb 15, 2021 | Social comment
As Gen. Patton famously stated, “Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. . . Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. . .The very thought of losing is hateful.” This...
by Barry Phegan | Feb 1, 2021 | Social comment
Take The Capitol I was shocked and angry watching those hoodlums scaling the walls of our Capitol, then breaking in and flowing through the halls. I didn’t know then that they were goaded on by our now-gone-President. The live coverage of the scared and...
by Barry Phegan | Jan 22, 2021 | Social comment
Everyone I’ve talked with since the Inauguration says how eerily calm they feel. Is this how it is with you? Some say it’s as if a great burden has lifted, or they feel hope again, but didn’t realize they had lost it. One person said if they had to choose...
by Barry Phegan | Jan 15, 2021 | Social comment
Correction: Homo Sapiens Horribilis This blog gives full credits to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Collins, 2015. It’s easy to slide into a blue funk with yet another stay-at-home COVID shutdown, the craziness in Washington,...
