Photo by Tarik Haiga on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What’s wrong with this picture? Last fall the U.S. had 6.5 million unemployed workers but 9.5 million job openings. In manufacturing, health care, education, and wholesale and retail trade, there […]
No. 50/Feb. 14, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Memories Fail and Change – At Any Age In response to Donald Trump confusing Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden reportedly having trouble recalling the day his […]
Photo by Delano Ramdas on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Are you fearless? Good for you! I, unfortunately, am not put together that way. You would think that by now I would have outgrown my fears, most of […]
Photo by Saikiran Kesari on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. People in our generation can take several approaches to climate change. The first is to be grateful that we won’t be around that much longer to worry about it. We can […]
No. 49/Jan. 31, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Classic Board Games Rebooted for All Generations Three favorite board games from back in the day have been revived in new editions designed for intergenerational play. The Game of […]
Photo by Lucy Heath on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Would you like to live to be 100 years old? This is not a hypothetical question. It used to be that living to be 100 virtually guaranteed your picture in the […]
Photo by Laura Paraschivescu on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Last weekend my wife and I traveled to New York City to see our daughter. On the train my wife wore a mask. I did not. In New York we got […]
No. 48/Jan. 17, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Tech Tools May Help Parkinson’s Patients Two devices emerging from Boston University’s Center for Neurorehabilitation could aid patients with Parkinson’s Disease walk with more confidence. One is mus… Read […]
Photo by Unsplash+ in collaboration with Getty Images The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I can recall a time, not so long ago, when a certain word caused adults to recoil in fear. That word was cancer. Receiving a cancer […]
Photo by Boston Public Library on Unsplash When my wife and I bought our co-op apartment 15 years ago, we said (half seriously) that we would live here for the duration. It was a ground floor unit, all on one level. The previous owner had already installed grab bars in both bathrooms. We were within […]
