Author: Keren

With apologies to everyone in outdoor retail, my first “real” job was with International Data Corporation, IDC, first as a secretary but soon as a Junior Analyst, tasked with dealing with reams of raw data. I went on to spend about seven years with IDC, studying high performance computing market trends and writing forecasting reports. […]

Being actually in the throes of a global pandemic is exhausting. It’s a whole lot more than that, of course. For some, it’s fatal, and for their loved ones, devastating. For all of us, it’s a waiting game. Are we going to get sick? Are we already sick? Are we doing a good enough job […]

March 17th has various celebratory meanings in our house. It’s our dog, Saki(‘s) birthday; it’s our very good and lovely friend Pat’s birthday, and it’s the day we drink green beer, or some approximation thereof. Pat turned 83 this year. She lives with her long-time partner Fid (actual name: Phyllis) who is seven years her […]

Well, here we are. In a pandemic. I’ve been prepping for years, both physically and mentally. I’m not really sure why. But I’m one of those people who’re really calm in crises. It’s just the way I am. But for all the reading, and thinking and planning that I’ve done over the years, I never […]

This article from Judd Legum makes a very good point about how we will begin to adjust our behaviors in a post-pandemic world. https://popular.info/p/free-breadsticks-during-a-coronavirus?r=1mrc5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy Sorry about the formatting… I’m just getting used to the WordPress commands. The gist of the article is that the company that owns Olive Garden (& other restaurant chains like Yard […]

There’s a tendency among some of us to view things happening “far away” as not really our problem and, as US “coastal elites,” we’re often right. We – because of privilege and resources – are often shielded from the nasty parts of modern life. It’s something I often think about. “What if…” I was born […]