O Ship of State - 10/08/11
Thoughts While Sailing My Ocean


Come and Get Them - 9/25/11
Molon Labe both Then and Now


Slavery - 9/24/11
Then and Now


A Special Gift - 7/9/11
A Signed One Dollar Bill

Advice to Jack - 7/7/11
Having Lived Much of My Life

Jack's Desks - 6/20/11
A Desk with Famous Users

Adoption - 6/18/11
It is a Two-way Street

Palin and History - 6/12/11
The Resurrection of Life via Revere’s Ride

Some Things that You Need to Learn, Jack 6/4/11
Learn Well, and You Will Succeed Well

My Friend Harry 6/1/11
We all have friends like Harry

A Vision of a New America 5/5/11
Has Replaced Our “You are Fired” Attitude

The Blessings of Radiation 5/1/11
The Strange Mix of Blessings and Curses

Odysseus Is My Middle Name 4/25/11
My Similarities with Ancient Mariners

A Funny Story about My Kidney Stone 4/21/11
A Laser Destroys an Asteroid Sized Stone

Tucson Shooting   3/11/11
Mental Illness Runs Deep…Very Deep

Benjamin Franklin Helped Jack, and Jack Helped Benjamin Franklin   3/4/11
What Jack Learned About Plumbers

Learning Is Important…At Any Age   1/29/11
What My Students Can Learn From Jack

I’m Not Liberal Enough—and Neither is America    12/06/10
Just Say No to the Just Say No Group

So What Are You Going To Do About It?   12/05/10
The Advantages of Dreaming

The Lance Armstrong of Doubletree - A Biking Lesson of Life   11/13/10
Pushing going uphill and downhill....

On Remembering Grandfathers - Past and Present   11/7/10
Thoughts about looking back as I look forward....
 

The Great Gate of Kiev  11/5/10
Going from the Mussorgsky to the Mad Monk

Obama and the Tea Party  11/1/10
You're invited to my tea party....

JACK   9/1/10        
The last of a long list of reasons for biking

WHY HUE   1/30/10        
The good fortune of winding-up in Hue, Vietnam

                    
YOUR BUTTERFLY NET: Thoughts on Threading Your Brain   10/11/09         
Thoughts about Lucy in the Sky

THE LUDDITES ARE BACK     8/23/09   
The Things I Learned about National Healthcare--40-Years Ago

                    
THE BRIDGE OVER/ON THE RIVER KWAI   
Myths and realities

  
SPEAKING OF SECURITY....    5/18/09       
On winning an all expense paid trip to Obama's Inauguration

                    
WORDS OF WISDOM THAT I DIDN'T REMEMBER   2/19/09     
Pearls of wisdom from ICU

                    
BOBBY AND BARACK    9/28//08    
Election of Barack Obama

        
TIBETAN  VERSION  OF  TIANANMEN  SQUARE    3/24/08   
“Watch out for what you wish; you might get it.”

                 
BELIEVING  IN  A  DREAM...AGAIN    12/11/07   
Maybe Chris Matthews of Hardball will wrong this election cycle

                
BIKO    9/12/07   
A Man Who Died for an Idea that Didn’t Die 

                
DEVELOPMENT  WITHOUT  DESTRUCTION   4/18/07   
A position paper on tourism development in the developing world

 
DONALD  WOODS   8/5/06   
A white liberal who knew his place....

                                                      
FREEDOM  OF  THE  MIND  8/3/06 
The contributions of Stephen Biko

                                                      
WHY  AFRICA?  7/24/06 
For a myriads of reasons….