This Week’s Independent Thinker
Ernesto Rodriguez answers his phone. Yikes! He’s real!
He lives on Catalina Island off the southern California coast, is a former psychologist, and took a...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
When we were busy growing up, we were taught to date, marry, and live together forevermore.
That was about as popular as the Vietnam War.
...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Kids are smart. We were kids. We were smart. Right?
“Smart” doesn’t mean quoting what someone else wrote or finding our way to Tahlequah. Smart...
This Week’s Indepedent Thinker
Small (but not little) weekly newspapers have a reputation for printing recipes, obits, school achievements, and bowling scores. Sometimes there’s a meeting or two,...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Yes, there are plenty of people who questioned Sir Richard Branson’s flight last Saturday morning. A great American pastime is to tell the rich...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Who’d have thought a bank would be an independent thinking institution?
Oh, that’s not fair. Our local banks support sports teams and school kids, and...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
New York high school teacher Shaina Harrison is on a mission to explain that having a gun do your talking always comes to no...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Yep, construction materials are astronomically expensive now if you can even find them.
When adopted Chinese immigrant, Maggie Grout, was 15 she realized that the...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Our Parks commission has meetings, called workshops but they qualify as meetings because the commissioners are meeting as we see it. They walk around...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
This pandemic has been tragic for a long time, so it was with relief that we read about Captain Sir Tom Moore last April....