Women and men are as different as chalk and cheese. Thankfully! — Ever since the first multi-celled organisms on primitive earth figured out sex was the best way to reproduce, there has been an ongoing battle between the sexes. Some creatures take it to the extreme such as the Praying Mantis. The male, generally smaller than the female has to figure out…

The opinion of a 77-year-old white male If any people have the right to gloat over the way they handled COVID 19 it is New Zealanders led by a youthful, female prime minister. But the country’s PM didn’t gloat over the successful suppression of COVID 19 unless you call doing…

Now, Maybe I have to think about it — When I drafted this article a couple of months ago, I wrote that I was signing off on Medium. Why? Traction for one thing. Lack of support another. I have written a total of 317 stories on Medium and I feel like the abandoned spouse. No alimony payments. No gratefulness…

It is a leeching system perpetrated by cheap employers — Let’s face it. Tipping is an archaic system that has its roots in the feudal system of yesteryear. It propagates the divide between employer and employee and needs to be tossed. It is a very selective and annoying method of dinging the consumer for a few extra bucks. When I…

A relationship factor. — Do you have a poor relationship with a family member or someone you work with? Is there an issue that cannot seem to be resolved and in an attempt to do so, you have held out an olive branch to this person? But have been rebuffed? If so, you are…

No. It’s not a joke. — North Korea is supposedly a workers paradise. In reality, it is more of a heavenly prison. Starvation, beatings, slave camps, torture and brutality are the order of the day for most of the people in this “people’s paradise”. The country is run more along the lines of a medieval church…

Why black has been maligned down through the ages. — Black is the absence of light. Some consider white to be colour because white light comprises all hues on the visible light spectrum. Black is not considered to be a colour as black cannot be created from a mix of other colours as can grey or brown for example. That…

But what I don’t understand is……. — How is Trump so popular with all his dumb ass supporters who can’t read? Obviously the people who read my piece on the subject matter do have reading ability. As I did not get one negative comment, I have to assume the people who support Trump cannot read. Either that or their reading ability does not gravitate beyond their morning cereal box. Why do…

It’s not easy. — Accessing small business financing can be the bane of many small business owners. Traditional banks are not there for start-ups and small business owners who have only been in business for a short period of time. …