Does America love guns more than it loves its children?

November 6, 2025
love-guns-more
Does America love guns more than it loves its children? It sure appears so. Let’s stop pretending otherwise. America’s obsession with guns isn’t just embarrassing—it’s deadly. And the bodies piling up aren’t just adults in crime-ridden neighborhoods or people in the “wrong...
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6 Comments · Opinion

The truth about Invisaligns

July 14, 2021
Invisaligns
When Dr. Fang, as I affectionally call him, suggested Invisaligns after noticing that my teeth were shifting as I aged, I rejected the idea. Especially after he told me...
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14 Comments · Blog

How do we find home? What makes a Californian?

July 13, 2021
Californian
This question is current for me, as I start to look ahead, further out than I've ever looked. Looking through a telescope at the far horizon seems to be a function of...
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11 Comments · Blog, Opinion, Travel

Thoughts at 37,000 feet

July 8, 2021
Covid-craziness
This is opinion, but it is also reality. Which can bite. I’m writing this on a Delta flight from Atlanta to San Francisco on the first of July. The guy across the...
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6 Comments · Opinion

Whose music are you dancing to?

July 6, 2021
Nietzsche-quote
  This is, in fact, the life experience of many creative souls, from Van Gogh and Hemingway to writers I know and yes, even me. Even me. Not everyone...
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11 Comments · Blog, Writing

Why you’re never too old

June 15, 2021
never-too-old
I'll be 70 this summer.  70! I can't wrap my head around it. Still, it doesn't seem as old as I expected, because it's never occurred to me to approach life with...
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7 Comments · Blog, Writing

When that one little thing pushes us over the edge

June 10, 2021
The first thing I saw this morning was a blast email from the obit site, Legacy.com, reminding me of the death of someone I had known. The reminder was meant to sell...
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10 Comments · Blog

Something’s going on–and it’s not good

June 4, 2021
somethings-going-on
Women around me are falling apart. Have you noticed far more anxiety and neurosis around you? I don’t suffer it, myself, but I see it everywhere. Women I know are...
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10 Comments · Blog, Opinion

Don’t you dare write about me!

May 24, 2021
write-about-me
When someone sits down to dinner with you and the first they they say is "I don't want you to write about this" you know it'll be an interesting evening. "It's what I...
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11 Comments · Blog, Soul School, Writing

When memories take you to a different world

May 17, 2021
different-world
On our way to Costco today we passed what used to be the Coleman Still. I was instantly transported back 30 years to what now seems like a completely different world. I...
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Spring-summer reading list

May 10, 2021
summer-reading-list
It's not exactly time for summer beach reads, but if you're looking for something new and different....here's what some of my friends and social media friends are...
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15 Comments · Blog, Reviews

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