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Essays on current affairs, business, investing, economics and politics can be found in this section. Think in the Morning has no particular incite into any of these areas. We write what we are inspired to write. Read at your own risk.
The Realm of the Senses
Some previous Easter posts are at these linksJesus, Mezcal and the Easter BunnyEaster ThoughtsEaster Thoughts, In Defense of ModerationIn Oaxaca Mexico there is a small mezcaleria started by a couple of young American guys called El Destilado just a block away from...
How I Learned To Read and Write
In my old age I started to write, first a blog then a novel. I'm asked from time to time how someone who ran a restaurant and later worked as an independent financial planner ended up writing. The answer is easy. I learned to love reading and writing years ago as...
Has Amerika Lost Its Mojo?
It's not surprising that a country founded on genocide toward native peoples, an economy founded on slavery, a culture permeated with religious differences and the usual rich-poor divide not to mention the racism endemic to the human race should find a few cracks in...
Emotional Intelligence
“Oh, God! Don’t you get your priorities straight when this sort of thing happens?” from my novel Behind The Locked Door When I wrote my novel I never dreamed I’d be living it all over again. Yet, here I am in a similar family situation. Of course, I’m well...
Cooking As Therapy
Google “cooking as therapy” and you will find 120 million results in half a second. Recently I’ve been reminded how important cooking has been for me over the years. How many of your best memories are related to food? I would imagine more than you realize when you...
What’s Past Is Prologue
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 Distraught would be the word I would use to describe my mood at the moment. I blog because it relaxes me and right now I need to be relaxed....
Tis Folly To Be Wise
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind. Katha...
A Look Back At The Trump Years Through The Eyes Of Napkin Artist Roy Hoggard
Roy Hoggard – July 13, 1937 – December 31, 2018To read about Roy, click on this link: The Genius of Roy Hoggard“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the...
Cat Fight continued
We like to be entertained. We like surprise endings. We are amused by magic tricks and shows. Ordinary life is boring much of the time. These are some of the reasons we are susceptible to the conspiracy theories and untruths that have become even more prevalent...
Cat Fight
The news this morning is that Ted Cruz will lead a group of 11 Senators to oppose President Elect Joe Biden’s certification. Senator Cruz, known as Lucifer in the Flesh or more affectionately as the Lovechild of Joe McCarthy and Dracula, seems to be laying the...
California
“My favourite line in all of literature is Rudyard Kipling’s monkey: ‘My people are the wisest people in the jungle, my people have always said so.'” Joni Mitchell For the past few days I’ve been rereading Joan Didion. The White Album, Slouching Towards Bethlehem,...
Democracy Descending
I knew Nobel economist Kenneth Arrow slightly when I was an undergraduate student at Stanford. I was greatly impacted by his book Social Choice and Individual Values at the time and have referred back to it often. In simple terms one of his most famous theories...