In what seems like a lifetime ago (this past February), work had begun for the seventh annual OLLI Open House to be held July 24. This free public event has been sponsored by the 2100+ member Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Southern Oregon [...]
I come from a line of polluters. If you want to take the long view, it’s an apparent species trait. Sapiens have been overpopulating, pooping on, and plundering the Earth for millennia. In more present times, Grandpa Bellegia worked for [...]
The first words contained in almost every novel are some version of “This is a work of fiction…” Rarely do we stop and think that our capacity for fiction is perhaps the most defining hallmark of Homo sapiens, more so [...]