Thank you for your kind comment.

I am appalled at the new normal, post truth politics. If you do a search on Medium with my name, you’ll see, although my habit of cute titles may hide some of it. My bad.

Another thing that concerns me re my grandkids is that I’ve had these two amazing careers without a high school diploma and I credit all I have accomplished to being a reader, which helped me become a better writer. Literacy in my native language was my primary skill.

I raised my kids to be readers and I hope that was not a mistake. I press books on my grandkids out of habit. I am not certain the skill will serve them the way it served me and it does take lots of time. Since I lost confidence in literacy as a marketable skill, I tell myself that having a skill is better than not having it, even if it’s harder to get paid for it than it used to be.

I guess I’m not a good fit for this brave new world. I had to run for office in my first career and in those times any error in a public statement had to be corrected right away lest it be considered a lie. The appearance of a lie was a career-ending calamity and a purposeful lie was unthinkable. What was a necessary survival skill then is an amusing instance of obsessive-compulsive disorder now.