We are in a complex political and economical maze, and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand, and created, the maze.
Author Archives: Carlen
The Monthly Bulletin: December 2022
Pithy Summary’s 2022 End-of-the-year list!
Community Supported Agriculture
Learn about community supported agriculture, an innovative way of purchasing produce that benefits consumers and farmers.
The Monthly Bulletin: November 2022
The Non-fiction Feature: The Omnivore’s Dilemma;
The Memoir Spot: Gardening Your Front Yard;
The Product Spot: Community Supported Agriculture.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
This book examines the food chains that sustain us, and the environmental and moral implications of our food choices.
The Phantom Tollbooth
An inventive, warm children’s tale about the beautiful expanses of knowledge.
The Monthly Bulletin: October 2022
The Non-fiction Feature: The Black Swan;
The Children’s Spot: The Phantom Tollbooth;
The Product Spot: Foundation (Apple TV+).
Foundation (Apple TV+)
The series touches upon many points discussed in The Black Swan–the complexity of knowledge, the difficulty of prediction, the impact of highly improbable events, and the human struggle with all three.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
This book explores the contours of knowledge and why we think the way we think–specifically, the impact of the highly improbable.
The Monthly Bulletin: September 2022
The Non-fiction Feature: Gunfight;
The Children’s Spot: Long Way Down;
The Product Spot: Bipartisan Safer Communities Act