“This ‘answer’ has come to be the watchword of my faith, my touchstone to tap in the midst of problems, unhappiness, confusion, or even joy. It brings focus and perspective to me, and…

“When the truth appears, especially those truths about myself that I’m not so pleased to see, I am much more welcoming. I know not only the futility of denying and manipulating these facts,…

  “Athens, where hundreds were dying of starvation on the streets every day in the winter of 1942, may not be the right place to begin. God forbid that such horrors ever occur…

“It’s this uncertainty that’s demolishing us. If we knew what the year was going to cost, we could perhaps cope, but it’s only February and new surprises arrive every week. January’s pensions looked…

“Some ‘experts’ from abroad assure us that life will become much more tenable when we revert to the drachma. Maybe so. But it will take a while. They haven’t realized that almost everything…

“As my father used to say, ‘You cannot get blood out of a stone.’ Austerity programs have been shown to fail. Yes, in turn we do need to reform, and we need to…

Won Over By Reality By Tim Bayer BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—2/2/2015—It looked like a road rage incident—a lunatic jumping up and down on the roof of a car—but it wasn’t exactly road rage, and…

Won Over By Reality By Tim Bayer BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—2/2/2015—The first two segments of my Groundhog Day Revisited Trilogy are “I Don’t Think They Said That (Again)” and “A Car Jumping (Retold).”…

Won Over By Reality By Tim Bayer BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—2/2/2015—As the featured contributor at Weekly Hubris this week, I’ve been asked to present a trio of posts. Since my turn at the…

“Here in the northwest, where we have an enormous light-swing between summer and winter (16 hours of daylight in midsummer, to something less than eight in December), we inmates have developed a kind…