Hopefully we’ve not come to the point of no return where everyone’s shouting and yelling “I GOT THE TRUTH!” and no one is listening. But it seems that Continue Reading
What is Friendship?
Last time, “What’s a Friend – I,” we were struggling to define friendship. We talked about openness and vulnerability as aspects of friendship. I’m Continue Reading
What’s a Friend?
What’s a friend? Seemed like a good question, something I could write about it a night, wrap it up comfortable the next morning or afternoon and send Continue Reading
Kindness Is Out There
I got lucky this week. I’m on vacation with my son up in north Wisconsin. It’s our annual canoe trip and we’ve had rain and T-storms every day. I Continue Reading
What’s Really Important
Last time I wrote about getting something on account while waiting for a bigger payoff. Put this way it begs the question: What’s important; what’s Continue Reading
Something on Account
Funny how we remember things from years ago and how they return as if they had a mind of their own, randomly, without any obvious connection to what Continue Reading
Think it Forward
Fifty years ago when my kids 4 and 6, we’d often walk a couple of blocks to the Student Union of the nearby college where I taught if there was a Continue Reading
Pay it Forward
Its tough out there. As the election campaign heats up, various trials go on and on, wars rage and get nastier, and the heat of the summer threatens Continue Reading
Why Being Woke Isn’t a Bad Thing
I’m still thinking about waiting for miracles to happen (my last essay), remembering how one can find those miracles on a daily basis by extending Continue Reading
Accepting What I Can Do
I finally finished writing a few words after weeks of being stymied. I was trying to say something profound about “All men (and women) being created Continue Reading
All that anger out there and mine internally just ain’t working.
I’ve been struggling for weeks feeling overwhelmed when I wake up in the morning by all the conflicts and challenges in the world today. The big ones Continue Reading
Policies and not Politics
Kindness The news is not pretty, neither internationally nor domestically. It seems to be politics as usual – name calling and figure pointing. Not Continue Reading
