Dear Friend and Reader: It’s been 10 years since I wrote my first gluten-free piece for Chronogram, called “Hold the Bread on that Sandwich Please.” As usual, we were way ahead of the wave. Gluten-free was an obscure topic in 2006. It’s now a bona fide trend. In fact, it’s become an industry. It’s become a … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Tomorrow (Friday), we’ll experience the last of the three exact contacts in the Uranus-Eris conjunction in Aries, at 2:44 am EDT (6:44 UTC). Uranus-Eris is the overarching event that we can look to as representative of much of the surprise, chaos (political chaos and identity chaos) and upheaval we’re currently experiencing … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: We’re building toward a Full Moon this Sunday, with the Moon in Virgo single-handedly opposing a whole school of fishy planets in Pisces (and that’s not all). If you feel like you’re trying to swim upstream; or like you’re caught in a whirlpool; or maybe like every time you turn around, … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: There’s a question going around: how do we convey the social unrest in our nascent era of protest into a sustained movement? Both the United States and the world have a lot of problems that need addressing — and it would seem the powers that be are not so interested. It’s … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Wow, it’ll be a month tomorrow. It feels like it’s been years. Yes, I thought all of this would happen — in the first three months, not the first three weeks. It’s not easy keeping up with the news, there’s just so much of it. I just clicked on C-Span to … Read more