Random thoughts for a November day

A new term for old people: The formerly young.

When you go to the parking lot where you’ve parked your car and it isn’t where you thought you parked it, is your first thought, “Damn! Someone stole my car!” Then, when you find your car, do you give a silent apology to the person you falsely accused?

Whenever I’m in a hot tub, I feel like I’m a member of the 1%.

We should use the word “unsettled” instead of “settled” when referring to the effect of immigrants occupying other people’s land. For instance, American pioneers didn’t “settle” the West — they “unset...