Author: J.A. Summa

Finishing the last season of “The Good Place” on Netflix and I’m more than a little surprised at the philosophical nature of the writing. It’s been a long time since I’ve done the whole ‘why am I here’ thing but the show does make you think about the nature of belief, the nature of existence […]

So just after 2000 and our move from Louisiana back to Missouri I was given the opportunity to learn the travel industry from the ground up. And 20 years later the travel industry is essentially blown up by the pandemic. My business travel clients are now not able to travel. We’re all furloughed, then LOA’d […]

A paradigm shift is defined by the writing of Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-96) as a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. Or in revolutionary war lyrics made popular modern day via ‘Hamilton,’ “the world turned upside down.” It took me until my mid 40s to care about politics. My teenaged daughter is not the […]

I have to imagine, that when she died, suddenly she was standing next to her body looking at it like she was disappointed in its ability to hold on a little longer. I wish I knew what her curse words of choice would’ve been. Her first words in spirit probably mimicked a lot of ours […]

I was following behind a big,, four door, brown sedan on the way to Plattsburg the other day. I was thinking to myself how old the car was, but how well it was kept up when I saw movement inside and a red ball came flying out of passenger side. I slowed down because I […]

Trying to find work again, when the pandemic has blown your 14 year career out of the skies – to put it in word – SUCKS! Just for grins, I put in for a jewelers apprenticeship and they called! The sucky part….we live so far out of the city that it’s commute that might negate […]

I know that, all things considered with Covid-19, we’re still pretty damn lucky. Aside from an initial scare surrounding the availability of toilet paper we are able to buy food, have potable water, have electricity and internet. We aren’t reduced to the scavenging we see in the disaster movies. (Though, now I think of it, […]