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How Things Work
At one point in my life, I was very concerned with how things work. I very much wanted explanations for things both knowable and unknowable. I didn't so much care about why they worked, that was a question that I found much less interesting and at times frankly irritating. Why something works doesn't really tell…
Sticky, Messy Emotions
I used to joke that my family's northern European heritage meant that we greeted each other with a crisp salute at family gatherings. If we got really carried away, we would click our heels as we saluted, just as was depicted in those World War II movies about the German army. If only things had…
Becoming Well Informed
Irony of ironies, now that I have more time for social media, I find that I struggle to tolerate it. With people having more time to post, and posting a lot about the current pandemic, their ignorance is coming to the fore. I find this to be especially true about millennials, and it has nothing…
Coronavirus and Corona Beer
...are not the same thing. In fact, they are not linked in any way other than sharing a name. You do not get coronavirus from drinking corona beer. Depending on which survey you believe, between sixteen and thirty-eight percent of Americans believe there is a connection. Claims that Corona stock has fallen are not true,…
Places That Frighten Us
When I was a freshman in college I worked at Marshall Field's here in Milwaukee. It was a department store chain based in Chicago. I heard stories from my managers about the main store in Chicago on State Street. The store had a basement, a floor that in many old school department stores held what…
A Small Life
I had a conversation with someone the other day about the fact that they got a snowplow to come plow the driveway after about an inch and a half of light, fluffy snow had fallen, She said, "we're lazy, so we had a friend come and plow the driveway." I responded that I didn't think…
Thanksgiving Thoughts: Screw Your Fussy Food
To tell the truth, I have had more than enough of moderately well off white people telling the rest of the world what it needs to eat. This is made even worse because all of those proponents of specialized diets that may or may not actually be healthier for people don't realize how much privilege…
Becoming Comfortable with Change
My wife laughed when she saw the title of this post. She knows that my number one pet peeve is when a store rearranges its shelves. I've reflected on this, and determined that there are two reasons it irritates me. The first is that it takes me longer to find what I came to buy.…
Guns, Schools, and Selfishness
At a certain developmental stage, young children are appropriately concerned only about themselves and what they want. At that stage, that behavior is appropriate and we would be wrong (and ineffective) if we tried to hurry them out of that stage. We would interfere with their normal, healthy development, and they would suffer consequences at…
Craig Bergland 