Author: Will Cox
Full Faith and Trust—in Nixon?
Today’s much more relaxing book, though one might not have thought so, is Tom Wicker’s biography of Richard Nixon, One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American...
Our Elections Make No Sense to Me
I really don’t understand electoral politics, especially the selection of candidates for office and how they are chosen. It’s not the procedure that I donâ€...
Why Can’t We Have Nice Things?
I’m presently dividing my time between walking, reading John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society (1958) 📚, and watching Yes, Minister (1980-1984), i...
Morning on the Porch in Spring
WoodpeckerBright yellow forsythiaSparrow, chickadeeA drop from the gutterAnd this bug that alights on my book,just as I begin to readThe sun warm on my thighs
Provide for … the General welfare
I am livid. Those fine folks in Congress have an opportunity to help people weather the economic storm caused by COVID-19 and the responses to it, and so the Se...
The Known Unknown
‪This is the worst game of six degrees of separation ever. Number One Daughter had class with someone who tested positive for COVID-19‬ virus. She has yet t...
A Matter of Life and Death
Here’s a purely hypothetical question for you. Let’s suppose you have a certain number of hospital beds and a certain number of ventilators and a ce...
Vulture Capitalists and Other Scavengers
Remember what happens to the country when the unfit ruler comes to power? I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities o...
The Plague
Our public library has closed indefinitely, and though I will need to return the large stack of books 📚 I borrowed last month at some point, I do not think I...
Essentially Worthless?
If non-essential work has stopped, and you didn’t enjoy that work, why was it being done?
O Ye of Little Faith
You may have heard this story. Once there was a devout man who was certain in his faith. All who knew him remarked on his righteousness, for he was constantly t...
Tips for an Advanced Lifestyle; or, Coping with Working from Home
Wake up you sleepyhead Put on some clothes Shake up your bed Oh, you pretty things, brush your teeth Bathe Make, eat, and clean up from breakfast Lift weights G...
A Tale of Two Cats
Two cats live with me. One, Lily, is 15; she has been with us since she was weaned, adopted with her brother when my daughters were four and two. Her brother pa...