RONALD BARON

How 'Settled' science nearly succeeded in destroying mother nature's most perfect food. "I have high cholesterol," my mother sighed over...

The year is 2039. Facebook and Twitter have been taken over by the UN to preserve global peace and rebranded as UNSOZIAL. The acronym...

Part Two of a Dystopian Novel Set in 2039 In Part One, we met Wayne Decker, a very old man kept comfortable at a state retirement...

The following is a serialized novel set in the year 2039. Wayne, the protagonist, is comfortably warehoused in a state owned late-stage...

In my last email, I hinted at sharing a novel I'm writing. It's not uncommon today to 'serialize' one's writing and offer it over...

There are millions of us boomers. Unlike newborns who are mostly sleeping, smooth, healthy, and nary a care in the world, we suffer from...

It was Shakespeare who wrote, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” His use of ‘soul’ suggests a spiritual man. Historians mostly...

There is an attractive young family that lives nearby. If posed standing proudly on the porch of their modest mid-century two-story, they...

It is difficult to fathom that we’ve been asked to keep one fathom (1 fathom = 6 feet or 1.8 meters) apart for nearly a year already. It...

Have you ever attempted to list all the essential things in your life? All the things that would be difficult to live without? Perhaps,...

I had just become a young man from being a young boy when I attempted to raise my own young boys. Much too young, I think back. I now...

If you’re a ‘boomer’ and not paying close attention, you may not know what ‘cosplay’ is. Maybe you heard the word, and if not for the...

Just a rumor, but I’ve heard another of my favorite eateries will not reopen due to the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic. In...

Prefer to listen to this essay? Press the play button. Old western movies never show an old western medical clinic. No long hallway with...

Friedrick Nietzsche and Karl Marx To listen to this essay, press the play icon. Are you woke? Of course. One must be to read. Woke is the...

To listen to this essay, click the play button above. Some years ago, the wife of a president complained of a ‘vast right-wing’...

Just a refresher; sitting too close to the TV will not make you go blind, pulling out a grey hair will not create two new grey hairs,...

...and things I learned from my uncles. To young boys, uncles tower over you like an old-growth doug fir. And if they were a farmer of...

With the pandemic, and the election, and calls to take a knee or hold up a fist of racial contrition, I do not wish to add to anyone’s...

The genetic differences between males and females is remarkable. Males have an X and Y chromosome, while females have two X chromosomes,...