How to dance the dance of life in the midst of chaos

March 31, 2025
Seems crazy, doesn't it? To think of dancing anything, including the dance of life, while so much around us is being demolished. When many of us can feel only fear....

The political incorrectness of being “color-blindR

January 21, 2025
Fair warning: You might consider this post politically incorrect. My doctor's longtime assistant was preparing to give me a flu shot as we chatted away about a...

A warning for 2034 but heed it now

October 7, 2024
Once in a while I read something that has the ring of incisive truth, and such was the case with the novel 2034. It is a clear and stark warning. Americans are...

How our own self-destructive behavior will do us in

September 25, 2024
I'm going to get political. Why? Well, first, this is my website. It represents me and a huge part of me includes my opinions. My opinion is that our democracy is in...

A vote is not a valentine

August 27, 2024
I feel so strongly about the danger posed to democracy by what passes for a Republican Party today and our need to get out the blue vote that I'm making the...

I would not give you false hope

August 14, 2024
But I would not give you false hope on this strange and mournful day.    ~Paul Simon The America that we believe ourselves to be is no longer the America that we...

The important lesson current events are teaching us

July 22, 2024
The lesson is about power and how people are reluctant to give up control and influence at the highest levels, even when it's clearly for the greater good. That fine...

All systems are corrupt

June 21, 2024
All systems are corrupt. I loved this line from my current favorite series, For All Mankind on AppleTV+.  Not because I like corruption but because I think it's...

The day we lost our innocence

March 19, 2024
We were all young like this once... our faces reflecting the innocence common to all children. What I wouldn't give for some of that now. Watching JFK: One Day in...

In this world but untethered to it

February 23, 2024
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."  (said by French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre...

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