Deborah L. Wolter

Sometimes I feel dubious and then somewhat manipulated. Surely, the whole point of reading books is to make me think. Think about perspectives, worldviews, and perhaps even why I feel dubious and manipulated. Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein discussed what they termed libertarian paternalism, a rather mouthful and a bit of…

A cousin from the middle Atlantic region remarked that grocery shopping in a pandemic pre-bombogenesis was a whole new level. People in the Great Lakes region are now taking heed for an impactful midweek winter storm. At this point, the three weather models point to anywhere from whopping 8 to 33 inches in my area,…

I am not a political person. At least in the sense that I don’t go marching on capitol steps or join lobbying groups. However, it seems that my very existence with deafness in my everyday life can become a “political act” as I battle for my rights or sense of belonging in small doses. Indeed,…

Schools are switching from in-person to remote learning and back with moments’ notice. Families are dealing with an onslaught of confusing information about exposures, testing, and isolation. Especially when the information changes as each member of the family gets sick or exposed one after another in a seemingly slow-motion march through the depths of a…

We are all individuals. We’d like to think of ourselves as unique. Of course, we are. However, The Power of Us by Jay J. Van Bavel and Dominic J. Packer, recommended to me by my oldest nephew and reading buddy, noted that our individual aspects of identities are hard to separate from our social aspects…