The Courage of Tall Timber
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he...
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Ron Baron
- Oct 3, 2022
- 6 min
Stories For My Grandchildren. When I Became a Domestic Terrorist.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” ― C.S. Lewis I do...
Ron Baron
- Jul 29, 2021
- 5 min
Is Cancel Culture Just a Zero-Sum Game?
“O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” – William Shakespeare, Othello...
Ron Baron
- Jul 3, 2021
- 7 min
Hearing Aids, Drones, and UNSOZIAL
The year is 2039. Facebook and Twitter have been taken over by the UN to preserve global peace and rebranded as UNSOZIAL. The acronym...
Ron Baron
- Jun 18, 2021
- 10 min
The Future- If You Dare
Remote control toilets and doorbells with facial recognition. Be afraid. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past...
Ron Baron
- May 2, 2021
- 7 min
The year is 2039: Sepia Lives to Bark Again
Part Two of a Dystopian Novel Set in 2039 In Part One, we met Wayne Decker, a very old man kept comfortable at a state retirement...
Ron Baron
- Apr 24, 2021
- 10 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, 2021
- 4 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
- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
Food and Retirement
It was great being young! Eat anything in any quantity and your body took the abuse without complaint. If it did revolt, it would be...
Ron Baron
- Feb 18, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 1 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
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
Time to Dust Off the Dystopian Books on our Shelves
Theodore Dalrymple is a gifted essayist. Well-traveled and possessing a piercing critical eye, he observes the rare, the obscure, the...
Ron Baron
- Jan 14, 2021
- 5 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...
Ron Baron
- Dec 30, 2020
- 4 min
Real Life as an Anime
If you’re a ‘boomer’ and not paying close attention, you may not know what ‘cosplay’ is. Maybe you heard the word, and if not for the...
Ron Baron
- Dec 25, 2020
- 4 min
2020: The Year Hubris Met Its Match
Seventy-three years ago, Albert Camus wrote a novel he titled ‘The Plague.’ It shouldn’t surprise anyone that it has enjoyed a resurgence...
Ron Baron
- Dec 11, 2020
- 7 min
Festus and the Green Hand
Old western movies never show an old western medical clinic. No long hallway with small rooms across from each other and a waiting room...
Ron Baron
- Nov 24, 2020
- 6 min
Like a Virus, People Die From Theories and Conspiracies
If you prefer to listen to this essay, please click the play button above. Some years ago, the wife of a president complained of a ‘vast...
Ron Baron
- Nov 5, 2020
- 5 min
The Power of Crying Uncle
…and things my uncles taught me. To young boys, uncles tower over you like an old-growth doug fir. And if they were a farmer of which I...
Ron Baron
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
The Slow Slide Into Familia Dysphoria
There is a much-used metaphor of a frog in a pot of water that is slowly being warmed on a burner. So imperceptible the water warming...
Ron Baron
- Oct 20, 2020
- 6 min
The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
With the pandemic, and the election, and calls to take a knee or hold up a fist in racial contrition, I hesitate to add to anyone’s...
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