Lifestyle

For me 2024 begins with new home, new car, new book. Stick with me while I live out loud and dance through the changes.

Costco felt like a math theme park and we were all on the same carnival ride, adding, subtracting and dividing, doing money math.   

In what seems like a continuous flow of calamity, so far my family and friends have had no major losses. We are the lucky ones.

It takes stamina to live this simply. We are conserving ourselves. For what, we don’t know. But we cherish the ordinary.

Using our thumbs this way, are we evolving our body parts in a new direction? What would Darwin say? My thumb hurts.

Two parallel tracks, growth in sex-tech and growth in loneliness. Is there a connection? My intuition is that we have an intimacy problem. 

Helen and her friends, our smart appliances, are stylish digital servants on their way to becoming more like our pets.