Guest Posts

These are posts contributed by some fantastic Guest authors. You'll find fresh perspectives from interesting voices. And they often disagree with me
Mar
08
Without Words sculpture by Judith Shea showing an empty coat, half a head, and an armless torso

Retrospective Reflections of Another Early Retiree (by Richard Norman)

So what did I do? I promptly made myself almost as busy as when I was working full-time, but this time without all the pay and benefits.
3 min read
Dec
22
Heavily snow-covered trees before a blueish, cloudy sky

Nature Speaks; Are We Listening? (by Gudrun Bellerjeau)

The more time you spend in nature, away from human “intervention,” the more you quietly listen, you will hear Nature speaking to you.
4 min read
Dec
01
Customer Service: Closing Down MY Account

Re-Imagining the CUSTOMER in Customer Service (by Stephen Faciszewski)

Greetings friends! Klugne readers are smart. This is most apparent when you can see them in action yourself. Today'
8 min read
Nov
17
Gigantic croissant outside a bakery

What Do You Know About Food? (by Pauline Jacob)

We’ve quickly grown accustomed to a food landscape that favors our short-term productivity over long-term societal health
4 min read
Mar
16
Plaque reading Sit Mens Sana In Corpore Sano

The World of Work and the Meaning of Life (by Alexander Brunner)

The meaning of life also encompasses the world of work but is not absorbed in it. Meaning in life is where you ask the big questions.
6 min read
Jan
18
Blue colored solar panels stretching off into the distance

Let's Demonize CO2 (by Christian Walter)

There is simply no alternative to decarbonizing the economy. It may be hard, but we should not stop trying to accomplish it.
3 min read
Dec
01
Painting of blue-skinned woman with dark hair and a gold dress. Hung on vivid red painted wall

Employees Are Not Serfs (by Scott Owens Rohrbach)

An employer-employee relationship needs to be a partnership where mutual trust is built over time.
3 min read
Nov
16
How to Find Your Way to the Other Side (by Kathryn Eriksen)

How to Find Your Way to the Other Side (by Kathryn Eriksen)

You will discover what you knew all along
2 min read
Sep
29
Cool Final Words (by Erek Dorman)

Cool Final Words (by Erek Dorman)

You can die, croak, expire, buy the farm, get your ticket punched, take the dirt nap, push up daisies, pass away, bite the big one, bite the dust, or kick the bucket.
6 min read
Aug
30
Peripatetics (by Panagiotis Perysinakis)

Peripatetics (by Panagiotis Perysinakis)

Walking became more than an excuse for physical exercise. It became an effortless and very natural exercise in meditation. And it proved a soothing ritual in helping me prepare to face, and then face and process the exodus of my father from this life.
4 min read