The Coming Thanksgiving Dinner Rumble
What should be a pleasant harmonious family time, Thanksgiving day gatherings often turns into a rhetorical and gastrological rumble....
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Ron Baron
Apr 24, 202110 min
The Year is 2039- Where's the Beef?
In my last email, I hinted at sharing a novel I'm writing. It's not uncommon today to 'serialize' one's writing and offer it over...
Ron Baron
Apr 11, 20214 min
Memories From a Red Ford Station Wagon
My life started as a snot-nosed kid with curly blond hair riding unbelted in the back seat of my parent's red 1955 Ford station wagon. ...
Ron Baron
Apr 9, 20211 min
Believers and Enablers
Vanity Fair writer, Peter Savodnik, sees an interesting parallel between hunting for witches in the village of Salem, Massachusetts, and...
Ron Baron
Mar 14, 20211 min
Fear of Retaliation, Students Remain Quiet
Most parents remain quiet for the same reason. But now, gingerly and with great trepidation, a few parents are beginning to ask...
Ron Baron
Mar 4, 20214 min
First Shall Be Last, and the Last Shall be First
There are millions of us boomers. Unlike newborns who are mostly sleeping, smooth, healthy, and nary a care in the world, we suffer from...
Ron Baron
Feb 18, 20214 min
The Tolerant Eyes of Helen Keller
It was Shakespeare who wrote, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” His use of ‘soul’ suggests a spiritual man. Historians mostly...
Ron Baron
Feb 15, 20211 min
Boomers Taken to the Wood Shed
My notion that the generation of my grandparents, the 'greatest generation' somehow rubbed off making the 'boomer generation' nearly as...
Ron Baron
Feb 4, 20215 min
Nosophobia on the Front Porch
There is an attractive young family that lives nearby. If posed standing proudly on the porch of their modest mid-century two-story, they...
Ron Baron
Feb 2, 20211 min
The Existential Threat Rabid Climate Alarmist Pose
"Yes, Peter, you are out of your mind." In a remarkably honest essay coming from a very woke, culturally correct media site, comes this...
Ron Baron
Jan 30, 20215 min
In Search of Essential
Have you ever attempted to list all the essential things in your life? All the things that would be difficult to live without? Perhaps,...
Ron Baron
Jan 26, 20211 min
Courageous Somali Emigrant and the Uncomfortable Truth
When national policies of finding those willing to provide much needed cheap labor (masquerading as a compassionate global immigrant...
Ron Baron
Jan 21, 20214 min
Things Learned Standing on a Dot
It is difficult to fathom that we’ve been asked to keep one fathom (1 fathom = 6 feet or 1.8 meters) apart for nearly a year already. It...
Ron Baron
Jan 14, 20215 min
The World My Granddaughters Inherit
I had just become a young man from being a young boy when I attempted to raise my own young boys. Much too young, I think back. I now...
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