We Are Family in Myanmar, Inc.
2019
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Perspective What You See Is What You Get. | 09/20/19 |
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The Reason for the Hole in the Mountain This Isn’t Fake News | 09/18/19 |
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It All Boils Down to Legacy What Will You Leave This World? | 09/16/19 |
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A Battle Between Orwell and Kipling… In 2019 | 09/13/19 |
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Plagiarism Sharpie-Gate | 09/11/19 |
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I Get That Ibn Battuta Loved Travel… But Why? | 09/09/19 |
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What Fascinates Me About Ginger In Our Time Together | 09/06/19 |
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Modafinil— The Pill that Stopped My Meandering | 09/04/19 |
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Troll’s Tongue Or Troll’s Tail | 09/02/19 |
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It’s All About Legacy “There Ain't No Way To Hide Your Lyin' Eyes” | 08/30/19 |
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Travel Is Important… But to Extremes? | 08/28/19 |
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My Yearning for Faraway Places… That I’ve Never Been or Will See Again | 08/26/19 |
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My Wonder Drug Modafinil | 08/23/19 |
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A Teaching Moment “Catch the Trade Winds in Your Sails” | 08/21/19 |
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Either/Or…Part 2 I Can Live with a Dent | 08/19/19 |
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Either/Or Then and Now | 08/16/19 |
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Thoughts About Willie Nelson’s Song…. On the Road Again | 08/14/19 |
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Starry, Starry Night…. What Do You See? | 08/12/19 |
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Trump and White Supremacy The Torch Has Been Passed to a New Generation | 08/09/19 |
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Mr. Rogers and the Urban Myths As Opposed to Our New Normal Times | 08/07/19 |
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Learning Important Lessons About Life… From a U-2 Pilot | 08/05/19 |
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My Next Adventure: The Die is Cast | 08/02/19 |
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Jack's 9th Birthday Gifts from Famous People | 07/31/19 |
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Owen’s 7th Birthday Gifts from Famous People | 07/29/19 |
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Lili Marleen A Musical Journey to Reality | 07/26/19 |
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Ginger, King of the Mountain Taught Me a Lesson | 07/24/19 |
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Quisling Then and Now Repeating History | 07/22/19 |
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Ginger’s Vet My Shrink | 07/19/19 |
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The Dog Days of Summer Without Air Conditioning | 07/17/19 |
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And the Winner Is…. Who Will Get the Nobel Prize for Peace? | 07/15/19 |
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Balloons Over Bagan Also, a Time to Learn About the Past | 07/12/19 |
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In the Game of Life… It’s Like Déjà Vu All Over Again | 07/10/19 |
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I Did It My Way An Important Mentor | 07/08/19 |
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Parallels Between Trump and Me But We Respond Differently | 07/05/19 |
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor But Not Like This | 07/03/19 |
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Leo Tolstoy What He Learned About Communication | 07/01/19 |
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Music as a Unifying Force Also for Oneself | 06/28/19 |
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Sins of the Father Will Be Visited Upon Us | 06/26/19 |
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I’ve Done the Dance… I Worried that Ginger Might Also Have Danced | 06/24/19 |
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My Family Escaped From the Jurassic Park in Myanmar | 06/21/19 |
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More Music More Defining | 06/19/19 |
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Family Who Is Your Family? | 06/17/19 |
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Pick Your Mentors But Be Careful About Who and Why | 06/14/19 |
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A Whiter Shade of Pale What’s It All About? | 06/12/19 |
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“Go Fly a Kite!” Franklin Did | 06/10/19 |
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Another Déjà Vu In the Arts and Philosophy | 06/07/19 |
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Cowards Die Many Times Before Their Death... In Rome and In Washington. | 06/05/19 |
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Fatty….(New video added of Fatty kick boxing) My Karate Granddaughter | 06/03/19 |
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Trump and Stalin Every Pictures Tells a Story | 05/31/19 |
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“It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again” For Me and My Pooh Dog | 05/29/19 |
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Nietzsche and Ginger Übermensch or ÜberGinger | 05/27/19 |
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The Climate Change Debate Evolved from the Scopes Monkey Trial | 05/24/19 |
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Prometheus, Galileo, and Nietzsche Verses Zeus, God, and Nihilism | 05/22/19 |
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Alabama and Abortion… And Sexism | 05/20/19 |
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Nietzsche Apparently Read Thoreau But I Have Read Much of Both | 05/17/19 |
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Nietzsche, Pathétique, and No Pain, No Gain Part Two of One-Liners | 05/15/19 |
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Nietzsche Wanted Two Things in Life: Music and a Dancing God | 05/13/19 |
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Purpose of Our Being What’s It All About, Alfie | 05/10/19 |
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The Discovery in Tibet Possibly a Relative of Mine | 05/08/19 |
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Carl Sagan The World Learned Much from Him | 05/06/19 |
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Pathétique A Way to Live Life | 05/03/19 |
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Wanderlust Travel with No Regret | 05/01/19 |
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My Dear Pooh Dog and Me (Oops, forgot the video) The Bonding | 04/29/19 |
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The Moving Finger Writes And the Writings Haunt Me | 04/26/19 |
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Several Things That I Need in Life And That’s When I Need You | 04/24/19 |
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I Wander and Wonder But I Am Not Lost | 04/22/19 |
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Ti Ti and Oscar Wilde’s Advice No Excuses and No Regrets | 04/19/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Dr. Marchand | 04/17/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Jacob Soboroff | 04/15/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Clarence Page | 04/12/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Rod Stewart | 04/10/19 |
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Scared! Seen as a Teaching Moment | 04/08/19 |
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Lord of the Dance From Three Perspectives | 04/05/19 |
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It Is A Bridge Too Far Only If You Are a Coward | 04/03/19 |
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Coffin Bridge… Build What You Need | 04/01/19 |
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Vocation of An Old Man… Being a Bridge Builder | 03/29/19 |
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My Granddaughter… Knows How to Play Her Cards | 03/27/19 |
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I Will Rage, Rage… On Behalf of 1250 Students and One Celestial Comet | 03/25/19 |
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Three Songs Morphed Together Creating Meaning in Life | 03/22/19 |
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The Purpose of the Universe Or My Window on the World | 03/20/19 |
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Ti Ti… A Remarkable Young Lady | 03/18/19 |
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The Issue of Walls As Seen by Pausch, Reagan, and Donald the Dumb | 03/15/19 |
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Dealing with the Reaper By Coming Alive and Living | 03/13/19 |
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Dreaming…. About My Moment in Time | 03/11/19 |
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Going Belly-Up Whales and People | 03/08/19 |
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The Dancing Devil Paganini and Me | 03/06/19 |
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One Moment in Time Carpe Diem | 03/04/19 |
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Before Trump’s America And After Trump’s America | 03/01/19 |
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NiC and Narcissus There Is a Better Alternative. | 02/27/19 |
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Inferiority Complex Womb Envy vs. Penis Envy | 02/25/19 |
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Warren Buffett Don’t Sleep Walk Through Life | 02/22/19 |
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics And Trump and Entropy | 02/20/19 |
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Tintern Abbey Viewed by Wordsworth and Turner | 02/18/19 |
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My Fistful of Meā Culpā… To Our President | 02/15/19 |
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I Made a Mistake… Imagine That | 02/13/19 |
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This Essay Is About Morphing Pelosi, Donald the Dumb, Pausch, Gandhi, and Me | 02/11/19 |
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Something to Dream About While Waiting for the IRS’s Approval | 02/08/19 |
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Light at the End of the Tunnel However, the Tunnel is an Illusion | 02/06/19 |
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The Value of Pain Can Produce Ultimate Bliss | 02/04/19 |
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A Very Brief History of Sexism in Science It All Started with a Blinking Neutron Star | 02/01/19 |
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Solution for the Wall Issue in Washington… Have Another Wall | 01/30/19 |
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This Essay Addresses Alfie What’s It All About? | 01/28/19 |
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Making Your Mark The Issue is What Kind of Mark | 01/25/19 |
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Two Despicables Who Saw the Light Colson and Cohen | 01/23/19 |
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Hauntings from Deep Space…. From the Tabby’s Star | 01/21/19 |
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Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse It Is a Good Sign for Me | 01/18/19 |
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What’s Donald the Dumb Doing During the Shutdown? Watching Westerns on TV | 01/16/19 |
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The Wall Issue The True Value of a Wall | 01/14/19 |
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Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It. | 01/11/19 |
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Reflections | 01/09/19 |
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Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 01/07/19 |
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Thanksgiving Celebration… In Nyaung Shwe | 01/04/19 |
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The Two Draculas The Man and the Ant | 01/02/19 |
2018
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A New Year’s Eve With a New Resolution for the Coming Year | 12/31/18 |
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Christmas Gifts for Owen From People Around the World | 12/28/18 |
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Christmas Gifts for Jack From People Around the World | 12/26/18 |
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Ginger, My Intelligent Dog… And Aerodynamics | 12/24/18 |
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Krampus, the Bad Santa… Is Coming to Get You | 12/21/18 |
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What Drives Me… My Himalayan Salt Lamps | 12/19/18 |
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It’s All About Family I Agree with John Lewis | 12/17/18 |
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Mini-Me and Dr. Evil… Then and Now | 12/14/18 |
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Reflections on The Magnificent Seven… | 12/12/18 |
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Captain Ahab and His Incarnation In Donald the Dumb | 12/10/18 |
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The Magnificent Seven… My Dream Team | 12/07/18 |
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Would You Like Some Vintage Wine? I Would! | 12/05/18 |
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What’s It Like Being a Neanderthal? Most of Us Have Some Neanderthal DNA | 12/03/18 |
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From Mud To Macadam | 11/30/18 |
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Way Back Home… In America and Myanmar | 11/28/18 |
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Tell Your Pets And Your Friends | 11/26/18 |
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The Healing of a Himalayan Salt Lamp… For Ginger and Me. | 11/23/18 |
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I Celebrate Two Thanksgiving Days… And This Is Why | 11/22/18 |
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Helping Donald Dumb… And the Rest of Us | 11/19/18 |
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The Musical Play That Never Was But It Describes Me. | 11/16/18 |
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"Look at Me I Am Old but I’m Happy" | 11/14/18 |
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Building a Log Cabin You Are Really Smart; I’ll Tell My Brother | 11/12/18 |
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Another Dinner and Date with Ginger On Election Night | 11/09/18 |
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Dreaming The Drug for Realizing Your Hopes | 11/07/18 |
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On Land and Sea We Are All Greeks | 11/05/18 |
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Lack of Leadership In Turbulent Times | 11/02/18 |
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Serendipitous Moments in My Life And They Are Haunting Me | 10/31/18 |
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Happy Birthday to My Ginger Pooh Who is Two | 10/29/18 |
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Donald the Dumb Should Have Taken Art History | 10/26/18 |
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Keep Calm And Things Seem to Work Out | 10/24/18 |
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On Making Your Mark And Leaving It | 10/22/18 |
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Bette Davis Eyes… But They Are in Myanmar | 10/19/18 |
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Ginger’s Vet… My Psychiatrist | 10/17/18 |
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The Relevance of Religion In the World | 10/15/18 |
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A Journey of a Thousand Miles… Started in a Living Rooms | 10/12/18 |
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What White Old Men Need to Understand From a White Old Man | 10/10/18 |
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The Woman in Green From Ginger’s Point of View | 10/08/18 |
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Sexism in Society Especially in Washington | 10/05/18 |
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Rhythm of My Heart Here and Abroad | 10/03/18 |
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“Holy Mackerel” Thus Spoke Ginger | 10/01/18 |
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Another Return to Casablanca To Understand the Present | 09/28/18 |
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Being a Young Turk… During the 20th Century | 09/26/18 |
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Teaching Students And Learning as a Teacher | 09/24/18 |
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Ginger and Me Just the Two of Us | 09/21/18 |
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Rod Stewart | 09/19/18 |
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A Noble Person… Meets Another Noble Person | 09/17/18 |
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“It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again.” | 09/14/18 |
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Hand of a Little Child… Ti Ti | 09/12/18 |
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McCain’s Life and Death The Life and Times of a Great American | 09/10/18 |
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Stumbling into the Truth… Related to Forever Young | 09/07/18 |
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The Pearl of Death Or the Lesson of Life | 09/05/18 |
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The Invasion of the Sewer Snatchers They Are Coming to Take Our Sewers | 09/03/18 |
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A New Neighbor… Just Moved in Next Door | 08/31/18 |
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Admiral McRaven and St. Francis Two Similar Minds | 08/29/18 |
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Remembering a Brief Moment in Camelot Which Was Lost in Time | 08/27/18 |
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A Strange Third Dance.... Indeed. | 08/24/18 |
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Ginger Is the Love of My Life As Seen in Music That I Love | 08/20/18 |
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What Goes Around Comes Around…Again and Again | 08/17/18 |
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Deep State Bob Woodward and Me | 08/15/18 |
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The Meaning of Being Or Why Am I Here? | 08/13/18 |
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Be a Dreamer.... And Never Quit Dreaming. | 08/10/18 |
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Roger Stone and I What Do We Have in Common? | 08/08/18 |
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Snow, the Virtuoso Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev | 08/06/18 |
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It Is In Giving That We Get Being Like Bobby | 08/03/18 |
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Parallels Between the Spider Woman and Me Money | 08/01/18 |
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Stephan Hawking’s Voice Was Sent into Space… But What Did He Say When It Returned? | 07/30/18 |
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Why Papa? Answering the Why Questions | 07/27/18 |
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Trump Asked, “Am I a F--king Baby…?” Answer: Yes! | 07/25/18 |
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The Ripple Effect… “…Can Sweep Down the Mightiest Walls.” | 07/23/18 |
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Eppie… Then and Now | 07/20/18 |
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GiGi And Her Message to Betsy | 07/18/18 |
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Ti Ti’s Birthday Present On Her 14th Birthday | 07/16/18 |
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It’s All Begins with Making My Bed— Which Ginger Unmakes | 07/13/18 |
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The Weaker Sex Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex | 07/11/18 |
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If I Fail… I Will While Daring Greatly | 07/06/18 |
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It Is a Matter of Either / Or… Lady Liberty or Donald the Dumb, Despicable, and Dishonest. | 07/04/18 |
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Happy Birthday, Owen And Now You Are Six | 07/02/18 |
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Possible Explanations of Death A Personal Apocalypse | 06/29/18 |
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Snow and Fatty Are Johnny Appleseed in Myanmar | 06/27/18 |
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Creating Ourselves By Creating Our Purpose in Life | 06/25/18 |
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Teach Your Children Well Lasko and Trump They are Coming To Get You…. | 06/22/18 |
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Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty Having Fun Without PaPa Al | 06/20/18 |
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Pa Lian Burmese Restaurant A Place Where I Learned a History Lesson | 06/18/18 |
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Stephen Hawking Left Us a Great Deal We Need To Follow Our Science Professor | 06/15/18 |
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Jack and Owen Make Bananas Flambé | 06/13/18 |
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Clarity About Dancing Being Arthur Murray in the Real World | 06/11/18 |
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The House of Fear And the Orange Pips | 06/08/18 |
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The Goddess Ganga The Transcendence of Reality | 06/06/18 |
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Ginger’s Rhino Horn A Priceless Treasure | 06/04/18 |
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What’s It All About, Alfie? What Will Be Your Verse? | 06/01/18 |
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Ginger's Idea She Wants Hush Money from Cohen | 05/30/18 |
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My Assistants in Myanmar Ti Ti and Her Family | 05/28/18 |
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Ginger Recovered And I Returned To My Hauntings | 05/25/18 |
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Explaining the Dance... Man, the Lights Are Bright.. | 05/23/18 |
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Who Are Your Mentors? Here Are Mine | 05/21/18 |
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Ten Years and Counting What a Difference a Dance Makes | 05/18/18 |
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Horns of a Dilemma The House of Cards | 05/16/18 |
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Let's Get Honest.... About Our Fake President | 05/14/18 |
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Forrester and Jamal You and I | 05/11/18 |
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We Watched Pursuit to Algiers While Ginger Drank Her Grog | 05/09/18 |
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Projection… Lock Him Up | 05/07/18 |
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Ginger is One and a Half Years Old… But What an Eighteen Months | 05/04/18 |
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Henny Penny Cries Out... "The Sky Is Falling" | 05/02/18 |
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Moh Moh, Bobby and Me All Dreamers | 04/30/18 |
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Getting an Adult in the Room with Trump I have an Idea | 04/27/18 |
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A Wrinkle in Time Thinking Outside the Box | 04/25/18 |
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Hope Hicks and I....... What Do We Have in Common? | 04/23/18 |
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Bobby Burns' Wish "To See Ourselves as Others See Us" | 04/20/18 |
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Learning When You Thought You Knew All There Was to Know | 04/18/18 |
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Dear PaPa Al Dear Ti Ti | 04/16/18 |
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Frederick Douglass A Better Man than I | 04/13/18 |
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Trump Needs Help The Dalai Lama | 04/11/18 |
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Ti Ti and Her Selfie That’s My Granddaughter… | 04/09/18 |
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Bobby’s Suggestion About My Problems… A School in Taunggyi, Myanmar | 04/06/18 |
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Sherlock Holmes In Washington While We Drank Ginger Grog | 04/04/18 |
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Easter Island In the Past and Future | 04/02/18 |
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My Teaching Goal Teach in Taunggyi, Southern Shan State, Myanmar | 03/30/18 |
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Hannity One of Donald the Dumb’s Lemmings | 03/28/18 |
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Pinocchio Back Then and Now | 03/26/18 |
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Pictures from My Myanmar Family Pictures…Part II | 03/23/18 |
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Myanmar Pictures Gifts from My Guides—Part I | 03/21/18 |
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My Follow-Up… To My Email To Ti Ti | 03/19/18 |
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Marner and Eppie Me and the Girls | 03/16/18 |
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Ti Ti The Tour Guide | 03/15/18 |
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My Heart Issues—Part II The One That’s Pumping Blood | 03/14/18 |
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Gifts Given But Never Received | 03/12/18 |
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I Want to Have My Last Lecture at Harvard On March 9, 2043 | 03/09/18 |
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death The Times They Are Changin’ | 03/07/18 |
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Hello World, This Is My Granddaughter… The Magician from Myanmar | 03/05/18 |
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NDA vs. NDAATAMAS A Stormy Time for Donald the Dumb | 03/02/18 |
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Problems with Burma Their Hotels | 02/28/18 |
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The Question Is… How Will You Be Remembered? | 02/26/18 |
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What I Did Accomplish During My Stay in Burma | 02/23/18 |
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What Would You Attempt To Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail? | 02/21/18 |
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An Emerging Nation On Its Way to a Developed Nation | 02/19/18 |
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An Age of Revolution If We But Know What To Do With It | 02/16/18 |
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My Heart Issues Both Hearts | 02/14/18 |
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Having a Purpose Carpe Diem | 02/12/18 |
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The Widow’s Mite And the Rich Donald the Dumb | 02/09/18 |
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The Water Horse of Loch Ness And Our Water Horses of Life | 02/07/18 |
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The Art of Asking Questions… About Which You Know the Answers | 02/05/18 |
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A Shopping Spree With My Three Granddaughters | 02/02/18 |
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Moh Moh, Tin Tin, and Me We Are the Incarnations of Bobby | 01/31/18 |
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Dressed to Kill Ginger and I Watched Another Sherlock Holmes Mystery | 01/29/18 |
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I Failed For the Time Being | 01/26/18 |
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What I Learned In High School Applies To This Moment In Time | 01/24/18 |
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Interview With Ko Ko and Moh Moh My Children | 01/23/18 |
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Lesson Learned About Dreaming I Learned from Bobby | 01/22/18 |
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Interview With Fatty My Granddaughter | 01/20/18 |
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We Are Family Versus Racism | 01/19/18 |
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Interview With Snow My Granddaughter | 01/18/18 |
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Bobby the Runt Turned into Bobby the Leader | 01/17/18 |
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Interview With Ti Ti My Granddaughter | 01/16/18 |
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There Are Moments in Teaching... That Are Rewarding | 01/15/18 |
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The Best Week of My Life… Occurred While I Was in Burma | 01/12/18 |
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Birthdays and Death-Days The Dilemma | 01/10/18 |
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Terror by Night The Third of our Date and Dinner | 01/08/18 |
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My Thoughts about the Meaning of Life My Perspective from My Twilight Years | 01/05/18 |
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Ginger's World... Blends with My World | 01/03/18 |
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Another Breakfast with My Shrink Dealing with Dreaming | 01/01/18 |
2017
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Basil Rathbone, the Actor But Much More | 12/29/17 |
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Joel and Victoria Osteen True Believers but in What? | 12/27/17 |
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America As Bobby, Moh Moh, and the Jazz Singer See It | 12/25/17 |
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Churchill and Democracy Trump and Authoritarianism | 12/22/17 |
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GiGi’s 90th Birthday Party At Down the Hatch | 12/20/17 |
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The Scarlet Claw A Date Night Movie | 12/18/17 |
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Dreaming Dreams that Never Were... Asking Why Not. | 12/15/17 |
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Commander and Chief of What? SNAFU | 12/13/17 |
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Doing the Dance... Fathoming the Unfathomable | 12/11/17 |
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Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain While Plowing | 12/08/17 |
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The Life and Times of a Femme Fatale Mata Hari | 12/06/17 |
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Confucius Said... But We Haven’t Listened | 12/04/17 |
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On Picking Mentors Pick Carefully | 12/01/17 |
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Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock... Remember the Past or Repeat It. | 11/29/17 |
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The Big Fib: "I'm, like, a really smart person." | 11/27/17 |
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Why Ginger? The Hauntings of My Pooh Dog | 11/24/17 |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon Watson and Ginger’s Roles | 11/22/17 |
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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address... Then and Now | 11/20/17 |
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The Haunting of the Edmund Fitzgerald Doomed Before Setting Sail | 11/17/17 |
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What is Kepler Looking For? Intelligent Life in the Universe | 11/15/17 |
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The Many Michelangelo Painters of the Cave The Renaissance of the Paleolithic Period | 11/13/17 |
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The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me Ginger and Don Quixote | 11/10/17 |
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The Reason Behind... Everything | 11/08/17 |
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The Jim Crow Laws... Went Beyond Our Borders | 11/06/17 |
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I'm Bo Bo Gyi The Last Incarnation | 11/03/17 |
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The Balfour Declaration One Explanation for the Mess in the Middle East | 11/01/17 |
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Another Fake News Item War of the Worlds | 10/30/17 |
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The Great Moon Fake News vs. Donald the Dumb’s Fake News | 10/27/17 |
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Fake News... Of the Italian Renaissance | 10/25/17 |
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Impulse Control Ginger and Trump | 10/23/17 |
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Live in the Moment... Plan for the Future | 10/20/17 |
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Morning Mist on the La Mancha Moor Learning About Love | 10/18/17 |
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Branding of Trump and McCain Which Brand is an American? | 10/16/17 |
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Free To Be Me— A Driven Dancer | 10/11/17 |
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What I Owe Ashley and Michael Wall Removal | 10/11/17 |
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Ginger and Santayana Remember the Past | 10/09/17 |
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Lawrence of Arabia One of My Mentors | 10/06/17 |
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Jade Suit... Then Roll Me Up When I Die. | 10/04/17 |
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Ti Ti A Reason for Being | 10/02/17 |
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Ginger and I Promises To Keep and Miles To Go Before We Sleep | 09/29/17 |
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Ginger AKA Longshanks | 09/27/17 |
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“A Child Educated Only at School... Is An Uneducated Child.” | 09/25/17 |
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Mr. Lee and Mr. Rotteveel Two Stories: About When I Was Young and When I Am Old | 09/22/17 |
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Larsen C Iceberg... Is Adrift | 09/20/17 |
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Ginger and Ra Ra My Pet Family | 09/18/17 |
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The Double-Axe A Symbol of My Identity | 09/15/17 |
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Lammy Coo Was Crewed By Gingie Pooh | 09/13/17 |
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A Part of Donald Dumb Is in All of Us Follow the Money | 09/11/17 |
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I’m On the Road Again But Why? | 09/08/17 |
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Donald Dumb vs. Jong-un Two Bullies on the Global Stage | 09/06/17 |
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The Hollow Man Who Wears Long Ties | 09/04/17 |
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When Dreams Aren’t Realized What Should You Do? | 09/01/17 |
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Ginger And the Issue of Kissing | 08/30/17 |
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Minnows or Manhood Or Scent of a Woman.... | 08/28/17 |
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Akhenaten... My Mentor | 08/25/17 |
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Get Educated— Travel | 08/23/17 |
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Essay with No Words But Look At My Eyes | 08/21/17 |
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“Better Angels of Our Nature” In America, Mexico, and Burma | 08/19/17 |
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Clarence Page and Donald the Dumb— The President of Trump University | 08/18/17 |
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Me and My Shrink Dealing With What Drives Me | 08/16/17 |
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Draining the Swamp... And Adding to the Swamp | 08/14/17 |
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To Attach or Not to Attach That Is the Question | 08/11/17 |
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Jack’s Birthday And Now You Are Seven | 08/09/17 |
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Owen’s Birthday And Now You Are Five | 08/07/17 |
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Ti Ti and I A Most Haunting Relationship | 08/04/17 |
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Macbeth... Guilt Spills Itself for Fear of Being Spilt | 08/02/17 |
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The Pentagon Papers... Then and Now | 07/31/17 |
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Ginger And Her Unconditional Love | 07/28/17 |
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USS Indianapolis and Connecting the Dots Quint, Jack, and Owen | 07/26/17 |
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America First Has Been Replaced... With Me First | 07/24/17 |
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Just Another Lie Of the Liar-In-Chief | 07/21/17 |
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Self-Portraits... By Vincent, Jack, and Owen | 07/19/17 |
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Oppie The Scientist and the Philosopher | 07/17/17 |
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Just Drop Me Off And Ginger’s Toy Dog | 07/14/17 |
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“Close to Treason” It Is Close to Stupid but Not Treason. | 07/12/17 |
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Rage, Rage... Against the Pissing Pug | 07/10/17 |
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Henry II and Thomas Becket Then and Now | 07/07/17 |
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What Did I Learn... From Vinegar Joe | 07/05/17 |
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I Pledge Allegiance To Donald the Dumb | 07/03/17 |
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Impeachment of Trump And the Tower of Babel | 06/30/17 |
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Sexism in the World Why? | 06/28/17 |
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My Solution to Healthcare Reform... Single-Payer | 06/26/17 |
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Donald Showing-Off I’m, Like John Hancock | 06/23/17 |
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Donald the Dumb’s Dilemma Falling from Great Heights | 06/21/17 |
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The Benefit of Failed Dreams The Dalai Lama’s Oxymoron | 06/19/17 |
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Teaching Donald the Dumb There Is No Happiness Where There Is No Wisdom | 06/16/17 |
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The Ides of June And Religious Ties | 06/14/17 |
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“Grace Under Pressure” The Way to be a Leader | 06/12/17 |
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First and Last Witch Hunt... The Work of the Village Idiots | 06/09/17 |
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Learning, the Unquenchable Drive Travel and Learn | 06/07/17 |
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What Were You Doing on D-Day? Being What You Might Have Been | 06/05/17 |
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Breaking News from Ginger About Trump Colluding with the Russians and Putin | 06/02/17 |
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Frobisher’s Quests The Northwest Passage and Gold | 05/31/17 |
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Jack and Owen’s Creation A Birthday Cake for Their Mother | 05/29/17 |
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HMS Terror, HMS Erebus, Global Warming… Or Nonsense from Those Godless Chinese Communists | 05/26/17 |
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The Hauntings of Hachikō and Bobby… And the Haunting of My Gingers | 05/24/17 |
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Bridge Builder or Wall Builder A Clear Choice for Donald the Dumb | 05/22/17 |
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Ginger’s Predecessors And My Domesticated Carnivore | 05/19/17 |
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Brown vs Board of Education... A Time to Reflect | 05/17/17 |
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Class, Easter Ham, and Kayaking... The Morphing of My World | 05/15/17 |
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Donald the Dumb Got Another Needed History Lesson… From the Prime Minister of Ireland, Enda Kenny. | 05/12/17 |
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Ayanna, My Granddaughter... Graduated from College | 05/10/17 |
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Three Blind Mice… And Bloody Mary | 05/08/17 |
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Do Not Going Gently Into That Good Night I Will Rage | 05/05/17 |
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Fearless Girl The Times They are a Changin’ | 05/03/17 |
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Brexit vs Scoxit The Death Blow to the British Empire | 05/01/17 |
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To Become… What You Might Have Been | 04/28/17 |
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Getting It Together… An Avenue to Acquiring Dreams | 04/26/17 |
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Ginger’s World… Donald the Dumb’s Cave | 04/24/17 |
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Campbell’s Cooking Class Teaches More Than Cooking | 04/21/17 |
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The Meaning of Life It Is All About Fighting the Good Fight for Others | 04/19/17 |
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The Help Déjá Vu | 04/17/17 |
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Life Is a Bowl of Cherries Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men | 04/14/17 |
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The Efforts of the Lady vs. The Efforts of Donald the Dumb | 04/12/17 |
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This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef... And Ginger Devoured the Little Piggy’s Ear | 04/10/17 |
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Elephant in the Room Trump's Mental State | 04/07/17 |
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The Amazing Process Called Learning Thinking Outside the Box | 04/05/17 |
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Pride Before Fall Learnings from History | 04/03/17 |
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Chick Magnet And the Hauntings | 03/31/17 |
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Approval Ratings For Someone Who is Insecure | 03/29/17 |
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The Hauntings About Bobby and the Gingers | 03/27/17 |
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Emperor's Clothes The Donald Isn't Invisible | 03/24/17 |
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Ginger's Bed Fit for a Queen | 03/21/17 |
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A Tweet to God... A Tweet from James Baldwin | 03/20/17 |
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Beef Stroganoff and Bananas Flambé | 03/17/17 |
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Crowd Size Size Isn't Critical, But the Truth Is | 03/15/17 |
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Ginger's Explanation... For Her Man Cave | 03/13/17 |
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On Riding to Samara Then and Now.... | 03/10/17 |
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Shrimp Can Whistle "I dream things that never were and say, why not." | 03/08/17 |
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Invictus Thank You, Mrs. Davis | 03/06/17 |
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A Dog's Purpose The Person's Purpose | 03/03/17 |
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What Donald the Dumb is Missing in Life? Eppie | 03/01/17 |
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P.T. Barnum Has Returned to Life What Goes Around, Comes Around | 02/27/17 |
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Romney and Irish Setter The Political Right is Often Wrong. | 02/24/17 |
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Trump and His Trilogy of Errors: Being Smart, Honest, and a Legitimate President | 02/22/17 |
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Kennedy Socks Presidents and Camelot | 02/20/17 |
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Robert the Bruce I'll Drink to Him! | 02/17/17 |
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Thus Spoke Dr. Marchand... And Ginger | 02/15/17 |
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Ginger, Socks, and Poe Finding Lenore.... | 02/13/17 |
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Narcissus and the Donald "I Love Me...." | 02/10/17 |
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Adams and Jefferson An Ethical Battle | 02/08/17 |
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Lambs Eat Ivy And Ginger Eats Lamb Ears | 02/06/17 |
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Icarus and the Donald Warning About Flying Too High | 02/03/17 |
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The Meaning of Ginger The Winter Solstice | 02/01/17 |
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"You Know, I'm, Like, a Smart Person." Really? | 01/30/17 |
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Live a Long-Life Rather Than Get Old | 01/27/17 |
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Winfield Scott And Where I Live | 01/25/17 |
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The Chinese Phoenix The Ruler of the Roost | 01/23/17 |
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How Will I Live to My 100th Birthday? Answer: Ikigai | 01/20/17 |
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Obama-- The Man | 01/18/17 |
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Banning Muslims Making America Great Again | 01/16/17 |
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The Value of Travel: Education | 01/13/17 |
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Merry Christmas Owen From van Gogh, Darwin, Shèngdàn Dăo, and Truman | 01/11/17 |
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Merry Christmas Jack From van Gogh, Darwin, Shèngdàn Dăo, and Truman | 01/09/17 |
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We Don't Have a Democracy... Yet Either | 01/06/17 |
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A Lesson of Life Learned from a Cockroach | 01/04/17 |
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Ginger, the Dances, and the Lady It Is All About Determination | 01/02/17 |
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Papa's Talk To His Three Youngest Grandchildren... Jack, Owen, and Ti Ti | 01/01/17 |
2016
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FLASH!!! We Have More Time This Year. | 12/30/16 |
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Step Beyond the Impossible Wall Learning from the Mongols | 12/28/16 |
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Walking in the Snow with Wenceslas Is More Than Merely a Carol | 12/26/16 |
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I'm Hanging My Lantern For All To See | 12/23/16 |
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The Great Value of the Philosophers' Stone... To Me | 12/21/16 |
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Jack and Owen's Fossil Collection No Pain, No Gain | 12/19/16 |
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Accomplishing Things in Life... Even Long Shots | 12/16/16 |
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The Fool on the Hill 50 Years Ago and Now | 12/14/16 |
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Teach Your Children, Part 2 But When? | 12/12/16 |
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Mentor Tell You Something About You The Value of Post-it Notes | 12/09/16 |
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Coping with Butterflies Getting Organized | 12/07/16 |
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Only Those Who Dare to Fail... Can Achieve | 12/05/16 |
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Moh Moh's Email Big Dreams Never Run Smooth | 12/02/16 |
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A Quest... To Find a Heart of Gold | 11/30/16 |
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Live While Dying Rather Than Die While Living | 11/28/16 |
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Deplorable... Defining the Definition | 11/25/16 |
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Ivan the Thankful And It Wasn't for a Turkey and All the Trimmings | 11/24/16 |
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Chimps or Bonobos From Whence Did You Evolve? | 11/21/16 |
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Roll Me Up I Am Free to be Me at 73 | 11/18/16 |
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Tom Brokaw... Another Dancer | 11/16/16 |
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The Lady, Bobby, and Bagan Triangulation Process | 11/14/16 |
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Jack and Owen, the Artists Determined Artists | 11/11/16 |
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Birnam Wood Has Come to Dunsinane... "You're Fired." | 11/09/16 |
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On the Road Again... Like a Gypsy | 11/07/16 |
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The Lady And the Peacock | 11/04/16 |
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Dostoyevsky Danced with Death As a Result, Became a Great Writer. | 11/02/16 |
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The Value of Grandchildren Links to the Past and Future | 10/31/16 |
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Teach Your Children... To Dream | 10/28/16 |
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Sexism and Trump Religious or Societal | 10/26/16 |
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Jacks and Owen Drawings For Five Ladies | 10/24/16 |
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The Donald A Tale Told by an Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury | 10/21/16 |
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Moby Dick Found But Not in a Book | 10/19/16 |
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Resurrecting Dashed Dreams By Continuing to Dream | 10/17/16 |
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A Bridge Too Far Isn't Always the Case | 10/14/16 |
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Death Teaches While You Dance | 10/12/16 |
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What a Difference a Few Years Makes If You Are Joisting with Windmills | 10/10/16 |
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I Am Free To Be Me.... At 73 | 10/07/16 |
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Himmler and His Quest for the Holy Grail Remember the Past | 10/05/16 |
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I Challenge the Trim Trump To Test His Stamina Against Mine | 10/03/16 |
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Make America Great Again.... Give Me A Date When America Was Great | 09/30/16 |
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Donald Get a Purple Heart The Advantage of Trump's Windbag | 09/28/16 |
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Dealing with Impossible Dreams Realistically... Or Getting All My Ducks Lined Up | 09/26/16 |
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GiGi's Psychoanalysis Me and My Hauntings | 09/23/16 |
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The Fighting Téméraire Explained My Nostalgia to Me | 09/21/16 |
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The Donald as the Dark Knight He Ain't Don Quixote | 09/19/16 |
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Why Do I Care? More to the Point, Why Doesn't Everyone Care? | 09/16/16 |
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Confucius Say, "Petty Man Understands Profit" | 09/14/16 |
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The Meltdown of the Donald As America Watches | 09/12/16 |
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Moh Moh Spoke And She Sounded Like Don Quixote | 09/09/16 |
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The Donald and I... Have One Thing in Common | 09/07/16 |
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Jack Began His Yellow Brick Road... Of Academia | 09/05/16 |
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Return to Myanmar Dream Big | 09/02/16 |
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Rediscovering the Past... Eleanor Roosevelt | 08/31/16 |
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The Meaning Behind the Man The Man of La Mancha | 08/29/16 |
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Trying and Failing... Is Better than Failing without Trying | 08/26/16 |
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The Strangest Thing Happened to Me at Jimmy John's Warren Buffett's 10 Ways to Get Rich | 08/24/16 |
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One Great Value of Education... Equality | 08/22/16 |
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Listening to My Mentors And Dreaming Impossible Dreams | 08/19/16 |
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Time to Update My Life... Finally | 08/17/16 |
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The Donald and His Mentors... Overseas | 08/15/16 |
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The Terrorism Trifecta Three More Dances with Death | 08/12/16 |
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The Maltese Falcon Talked And I Listened | 08/10/16 |
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The Kiss From Life to Death | 08/08/16 |
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We Must Address Conservativism... For Two Essential Reasons | 08/05/16 |
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Owen Teaches Me About Fossils | 08/03/16 |
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The Value of Giving Gifts... To Young Children | 08/01/16 |
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Bobby Kennedy Still Reaches Out to Us. | 07/29/16 |
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The Queen's Haunting... Bohemian Rhapsody | 07/27/16 |
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Me First Trump's Motto | 07/25/16 |
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My Love Letters They Must Be Written | 07/22/16 |
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What's Permissible and What Isn't And Who Decides | 07/20/16 |
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We Shall Overcome A Belief Amid Darkness | 07/18/16 |
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Dealing with Dreams that Could Have Been... But Aren't | 07/15/16 |
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Jack's Birthday Letters From Charles Darwin, El Greco, and Thomas Jefferson | 07/13/16 |
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Owen's Birthday Letters From Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, and Thomas Jefferson | 07/11/16 |
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Prediction of Clinton's Running Mate And Her Running Mate Is.... | 07/08/16 |
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Happy Birthday, Jack And Now You are 6 | 07/07/16 |
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Last Words Or Don Quixote's Joists with Windmills | 07/04/16 |
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Happy Birthday, Owen And Now You are 4 | 07/01/16 |
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A 21st Century Unicorn A Creative Moment | 06/29/16 |
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"I Come in a World of Iron... To Make a World of Gold." | 06/27/16 |
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Talking to a Tree Growing in a Silo | 06/24/16 |
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Mother's Day/Father's Day We Will Make Them a Gift | 06/22/16 |
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Bloody Hands and No Backbone What a Legacy | 06/20/16 |
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My Sherpa Statue Spoke A Valuable Time Spent Listening | 06/17/16 |
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The 5-Things Test Seeing Yourself as Others See You | 06/15/16 |
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Fiddler on the Roof Or How to Become Learned | 06/13/16 |
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The Angel Spoke... And I Listened. | 06/10/16 |
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Uffizi Gallery Located in Florence, Indy, and Crown Point | 06/08/16 |
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The Thinkers Three Jack, Owen, and Me | 06/06/16 |
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The Value of My Hauntings.... It Forces the Issues | 06/03/16 |
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A Self-Awareness Game Who is Your Mentor? | 06/01/16 |
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The Advice of Master Kong Enjoy Life by Not Working | 05/30/16 |
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What I Learned About Toddlers From Two Toddlers | 05/27/16 |
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The Morphing of Mongolian History With Mongolian Beef | 05/25/16 |
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Travel.... If You Wish to Learn | 05/23/16 |
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The Donald The Relationship Between Ignorance and Knowledge | 05/20/16 |
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Ghost Riders in the Sky Then and Now | 05/18/16 |
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Master Kong Said... Don't Remember Being Wronged | 05/16/16 |
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Kelly, My Hair Dresser And Her Mind | 05/13/16 |
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The Problem of a Non-Techy... A Computer | 05/11/16 |
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Happy Birthday, Ayanna I am Proud of You. | 05/09/16 |
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Mr. Turner The Dualism of Feelings | 05/06/16 |
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Marc Chagall And His Three Clones | 05/04/16 |
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An Anniversary Has Arrived.... The Fifth Anniversary. | 05/02/16 |
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Morphing of the Flu with Polio A Strange Juxtaposition | 04/29/16 |
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The Third Dance Apparently Was a Misstep | 04/27/16 |
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The Relationship Between Death and Life Death Can Cause Us to Live Life | 04/25/16 |
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Rewriting History To Fit Our Notions | 04/22/16 |
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Ravel's Bolero Was Repeating Itself | 04/20/16 |
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How to be Smarter Than We Think We Are | 04/18/16 |
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I am Don Quixote But I Am Not from La Mancha | 04/15/16 |
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Maude Adams Found Somewhere in Time | 04/13/16 |
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In My Life I'll Never Lose Affection for People and Things | 04/11/16 |
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Christopher Reeve Another Dancer Who Could Also Fly | 04/08/16 |
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Lucy And the Rum-Runners | 04/06/16 |
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Don Quixote and Albert Einstein The Two Dreamers | 04/04/16 |
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Worthless Windmills Time Will Tell Their Worth | 04/01/16 |
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Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic "Full of Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing" | 03/30/16 |
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Learning from My Mentor A Knight-Errant On His Deathbed | 03/28/16 |
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Aladdin's Lamp A Journey from Göreme to Crown Point | 03/25/16 |
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I Want to Have Dinner for Two A Date and Someone Who Has Done the Dance | 03/23/16 |
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Weighing the Heart of a Person Princeton and Racism | 03/21/16 |
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Einstein's Other Theory From a Genius | 03/18/16 |
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A Birthday Cake for Mommy Chewbacca of Indy | 03/16/16 |
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Bobby or the Donald Picking Mentors | 03/14/16 |
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Could I Have This Dance... For the Rest of My Life? | 03/11/16 |
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Alex Failed... But Danced On. | 03/09/16 |
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What Drives Me? And the Answer Is.... | 03/07/16 |
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On Seeing the Light Chuck, Paul, and Me | 03/04/16 |
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Paying Tribute to Steve, Anne, and Dave For Their Assistance | 03/02/16 |
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My Casablanca Party Morphed Into My La Mancha Party | 02/29/16 |
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Two Roads in the Wood Choose Wisely | 02/26/16 |
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The Art of Beating the Grim Reaper Follow Randy Pausch's Example | 02/24/16 |
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Grave or No Grave That is the Question | 02/22/16 |
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Best of Times, Worst of Times It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely | 02/19/16 |
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I Am Looking for Another Dancer The Ultimate Partner | 02/17/16 |
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Buddha's Strange Parable... Which We Need to Understand | 02/15/16 |
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The Value of Dreaming About My List of Dulcineas | 02/12/16 |
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Candidate or a Comedian That is the Question | 02/10/16 |
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The Third Dance... Maybe or Maybe Not | 02/08/16 |
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Somewhere in Time The Importance of Memories | 02/04/16 |
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The Drinkable Book I Wish I Had One While in Indochina | 02/03/16 |
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Another Dancer David Hume | 02/01/16 |
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Defining Conservative Let's Get Honest About Intent | 01/29/16 |
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Talking with Vincent About Life and Art | 01/27/16 |
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Revitalizing My Brain After Winding Up in ICU | 01/25/16 |
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Dreams will come to you.... If You Are True to Your Quest | 01/22/16 |
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A Pit Stop Can Be Our Destination Don't Miss Your Destiny | 01/20/16 |
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Miguel Cervantes As Don Quixote | 01/18/16 |
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"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun." Randy Pausch is Correct | 01/15/16 |
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Baby Jesus In the Hay in Indy | 01/13/16 |
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The Little Match Girl And The Golden Statue | 01/11/16 |
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The Very Strange Year of 2008 A Year to Remember | 01/08/16 |
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The Gift of an Angel It is More About My Feelings | 01/06/16 |
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The Donald and the Dulce March to Madness | 01/04/16 |
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New Year New Booty | 01/01/16 |
2015
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Owen's Christmas Gifts From Around the World | 12/30/15 |
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Jack's Christmas Gifts From Around the World | 12/28/15 |
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Swallow, Swallow, Little Swallow One of the Saints | 12/25/15 |
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Chinese Seal... Talks About Love | 12/23/15 |
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A Morning with My Clone Dave and Windows 10 | 12/21/15 |
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Don Quixote and Confucius Told Me To Get Off My Arse | 12/18/15 |
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Pathétique Moving Music | 12/16/15 |
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Going to Hell in a Handbasket And the Tibetan Mask | 12/14/15 |
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Doing the Dance Again How to Address Both New Dances | 12/11/15 |
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The Scholarly Santa Which is Better Than a Santa with a Sax | 12/09/15 |
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I Decided to Support the Emperor Donald Starting with His Red Tie | 12/07/15 |
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I Know Who I Am... And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me | 12/04/15 |
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Träumerei The Dreaming of Schumann and Me | 12/02/15 |
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Devils Tower... Another Misnamed Parable | 11/30/15 |
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Take Your Passion and Make It Happen Flashdance Follow-up | 11/27/15 |
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Responses to Paris Both Are Vital | 11/25/15 |
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Carson and Muslims Insensitivity to Discrimination | 11/23/15 |
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What a Feeling And It Is a Great Feeling | 11/20/15 |
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Calla's Desk From a Famous Dancer | 11/18/15 |
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Want to See What I'm Wearing for Halloween? A Profound Question | 11/16/15 |
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Living, Learning, and Lenovo You Win Some, and You Lose Some | 11/13/15 |
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Baking Cookies for Halloween.... But for whom? | 11/11/15 |
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Pandora Provides Hope... Don Quixote Provides Determination | 11/09/15 |
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg A Valedictorian of Life | 11/06/15 |
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Don Quixote Then and Now | 11/04/15 |
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Dr. Marchand Knows Medicine Well... And He Knows Life Well Also | 11/2/15 |
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Daring Greatly Or How Failure Frees Us to Succeed | 10/30/15 |
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The Campbell Cookie Jar The Tie In Between the Past and the Present | 10/28/15 |
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere "To Arms, the Confederacy Is Coming." | 10/26/15 |
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My College Teaching Curriculum For Preschoolers | 10/23/15 |
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The Vision of Sir Launfal Then and Now | 10/21/15 |
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Doubling Down... To Make Dreams Come True | 10/19/15 |
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The Chambered Nautilus "Build thee more stately mansions...." | 10/16/15 |
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The Old Pine Table An Object of Renewal and Rebirth | 10/14/15 |
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Parallel Birthdays Parallel Behaviors: Evolution and Emancipation | 10/12/15 |
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It's Confession Time... And It Isn't Sunday | 10/09/15 |
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The Mahogany Bench A Place for Dreaming.... | 10/07/15 |
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The Right to Live And the Right to Die | 10/05/15 |
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Squirt's Observations of Her Papa A Modern Day Eppie's Reflection | 10/02/15 |
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The Little Wooden Box An Updated Pandora's Box | 09/30/15 |
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Collecting Coins A Tradition Continues | 09/28/15 |
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Ayanna and Creativity Picasso was Correct | 09/25/15 |
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The Butcher Knife And Changing Diapers | 09/23/15 |
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A Great Dancer with Death A Sobering Experience | 09/21/15 |
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Putting the Pieces Together The Joy of Coming of Age | 09/18/15 |
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The Tulip Pitcher A Picture of Springtime | 09/16/15 |
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The Grid A Failsafe for a Wandering Right-Brain | 09/14/15 |
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Songs Can Make the World Go Around... Peacefully. | 09/11/15 |
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The Felt Picture A Picture of Hopefulness | 09/09/15 |
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A Second Look at Life Toward the End of Life | 09/07/15 |
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Agnes Majors in the Minors A Big Fish in a Drying Up Small Pond | 09/04/15 |
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The Japanese Surrendered... But Why? | 09/02/15 |
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The Fire Hat A Symbol of Bravery | 08/31/15 |
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The Desire to Ding the Universe But Why? | 08/28/15 |
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The Chinese Lantern A Phoenix of Old | 08/26/15 |
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From Whence Does the Spark Come? The Creative Act of Pondering | 08/24/15 |
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The Value of Pain Or How to Retrieve the Torpedo | 08/21/15 |
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Téméraire's Cradle... Talks to Me. | 08/19/15 |
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The Value of Standing on Desks Allows One to See the World Clearly | 08/17/15 |
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Discovery of Terracotta Warriors... And Nessie | 08/14/15 |
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A Man with a Mission... Sinking a German U-boat | 08/12/15 |
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Intelligent Life on Other Planets Is there anyone there; does anyone care out there? | 08/10/15 |
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The Dragon Rocker And GiGi's Son | 08/07/15 |
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The Talking Brass Rice Bowl With Its Advice | 08/05/15 |
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Riders on the Streetcar Named Desire: Elizabeth and Rosa | 08/03/15 |
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Strange Tale | 07/31/15 |
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If— A Message for Jack and Owen | 07/27/15 |
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When You are Not Preaching to the Choir Finally Understanding What You Thought You Knew | 07/25/15 |
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Thinking About Being a Great Grandpapa... Talk about Motivation | 07/24/15 |
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Darwin, Chagall, and Lindbergh's Gifts For Jack on His Fifth Birthday | 07/22/15 |
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Darwin, van Gogh, and Lindbergh's Gifts For Owen on His Third Birthday | 07/20/15 |
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A Gift on Papa's Day You Both Have Hearts of Gold | 07/19/15 |
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Dinner with GiGi The Socratic Method of an Older Woman | 07/17/15 |
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Avoid Living Life Like a Lemming Choose wisely. | 07/15/15 |
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Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma T. E. Lawrence | 07/13/15 |
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What Makes Me Tick Finally, an Explanation | 07/12/15 |
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What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago, Which I Finally Fully Understand | 07/10/15 |
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Jack And Now You Are Five | 07/07/15 |
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Alan Seeger And His Dance with Death | 07/04/15 |
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Owen And Now You Are Three | 07/01/15 |
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What I Learned About Life... From Facing Down the Dragon | 06/29/15 |
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The Blue Panther And Her Thoughts | 06/26/15 |
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Wading Through the Water of Life Advice by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | 06/24/15 |
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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Marilyn Mosby Chose Wisely | 06/22/15 |
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Father's Day What Fathers Can Learn on Their Day | 06/21/15 |
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Career Opportunity... Being a Gladiator | 06/19/15 |
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On Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us Bobbie Burn's Insight | 06/17/15 |
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What a Wonderful World You Think to Yourself.... | 06/15/15 |
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Chatting with My Tibetan Cabinet On Hearing Voices | 06/13/15 |
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The Dragon and Me A Fight to the Death.... | 06/12/15 |
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Lincoln Danced with Death ...and Continued on with Life. | 06/10/15 |
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The Benefit of Problems Or the Only Means to Success | 06/08/15 |
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Cancer and Crabs Strange History that They Both Share | 06/05/15 |
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Milky Way and Andromeda's Dance with Death Parallels Our Dances with Death | 06/03/15 |
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Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut's Dance with Death | 06/01/15 |
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Finally, Someone is Walking the Walk Not Merely Talking the Talk | 05/30/15 |
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Genghis Khan, the Galloping Gourmet The Graham Kerr of the Mongolian Steppes | 05/29/15 |
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Jack, Owen, and Their Cars They Are Off To the Races | 05/27/15 |
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Jack and Artistic Creativity History Repeats Itself | 05/25/15 |
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Picasso Was Correct Case In Point: Mother's Day 2015 | 05/24/15 |
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Dancing with Death Allows You to Live | 05/22/15 |
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Pensive Pence... And Pensive America Coming of Age | 05/20/15 |
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It Has Been Seven Years Since I Fell... And Cracked My Head | 05/18/15 |
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The Puzzle of Life Solved By... Jack and Owen | 05/15/15 |
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I'm a Big Boy... Thus Begins a Never Ending Journey | 05/12/15 |
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It Is About How You Lead Your Life Start With Refining Words | 05/11/15 |
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Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens How to Avoid the Ghosts | 05/08/15 |
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Bob Trout and Me "Very Few of Us Are What We Seem." | 05/06/15 |
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It is a Choice between Excitement and Desperation. Choose Wisely | 05/04/15 |
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Nepal Then And Now | 05/03/15 |
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The Value of Writing It Forces You To Remember | 05/01/15 |
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Killer Asteroids Are Coming to Get Us What Can We Do? | 04/29/15 |
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"We Get Old Too Soon... And Wise Too Late" | 04/27/15 |
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Booth Died 150 Years Ago Today How Has America Changed? | 04/26/15 |
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Fertilizing Daffodils But in the Meantime.... | 04/24/15 |
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Teddy Roosevelt Was Correct If You Fail, Do So Daring Greatly. | 04/23/15 |
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Fear of Making a Mistake Cleese and Roosevelt's Message for Us | 04/22/15 |
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Dino and Dove Dung The Value of the Unimaginable | 04/15/15 |
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How Do We Learn? The Lessons in Learning | 04/13/15 |
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Talk to an Infant's Brain Help Make a Hundred Trillion Neuron Connections | 04/10/15 |
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Hannibal Crossing the Alps Another Art History Class | 04/08/15 |
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"Live as if You Were to Die Tomorrow." "Learn as if You Were to Live Forever." | 04/06/15 |
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Two Crazy Captains Chasing Moby Dick Then and Now | 04/03/15 |
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There are Snowballs in Hell Global Warming is the Greatest Hoax | 04/01/15 |
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave Jack and Owen's Allegory of the Tent | 03/30/15 |
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Ode to Joy In the Midst of Pain | 03/27/15 |
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Jack and Owen's Fossil Collection A Face Lift to Their Collection | 03/25/15 |
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Lead Death as You Dance with Death It Will Change Your Life | 03/24/15 |
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A Choice between Tigger or Eeyore Choose Wisely | 03/20/15 |
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Think about the Legacy that You Leave Will Your Relatives Be Proud of You? | 03/19/15 |
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Some People Feel the Rain Others Just Get Wet. | 03/16/15 |
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The Value of Walls Brick Walls Prove Your Desire. | 03/13/15 |
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Dawning of the Age of Aquarius "Then Peace Will Guide the Planets" | 03/09/15 |
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Reliving Many Bloody Sundays Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement | 03/07/15 |
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Experience Redefining the Word | 03/05/15 |
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Standing on the Bridge over the River Kwai Standing on at Least One of the Bridges.... | 03/02/15 |
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Book Learning vs. Real World Learning... From Across the Seas | 02/27/15 |
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We Want to Teach Our Grandchildren However, We Need To Learn From Them Also | 02/26/15 |
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"All Mankind is Divided Into Three Classes..." Some Aren't Buried Until They Are Seventy-five | 02/23/15 |
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The Lioness Roars... "Enough Is Enough" | 02/20/15 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird Revisited | 02/18/15 |
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Islam and Christian Extremism Both Leaders are Crying | 02/17/15 |
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Trilobites Found... After 54-Years of Looking | 02/16/15 |
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Obama's Golden Opportunity On Leaving a Legacy | 02/13/15 |
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Orangutans, Our Cousins... Our Spitting Cousins | 02/09/15 |
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Malala... A Role Model for Millions | 02/06/15 |
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The Daunting Duality: Long Life vs. Giving It All Up | 02/04/15 |
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My Head Fake During My Last Lecture | 02/03/15 |
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Graham Kerr and Me On Scottish Delicacies | 02/02/15 |
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The Morphing the Mission and the Stone Understanding the Distant Pasts | 01/30/15 |
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What Makes a Genius? Being Brave Enough to Fail | 01/26/15 |
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Man in the Arena "If He Fails, At Least Fails While Daring Greatly" | 01/23/15 |
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Looking Back and Remembering Looking Forward and Hoping | 01/20/15 |
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Seeds of Possibilities Only When the Culture Changes | 01/19/15 |
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The Most Dangerous Woman in America Mother Jones and Her Boys | 01/16/15 |
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Suffering Yields Success Worrying Yields Warts | 01/14/14 |
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"Every Child is an Artist." The Question is What Remains in Adulthood? | 01/12/15 |
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Dare to Dream Even When Dreams are Delayed | 01/09/15 |
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What Makes Me Tick? The True Value of Pain | 01/07/14 |
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Ozone to Ferguson A Journey That Never Seems To End | 01/05/15 |
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It Was the Best of Times It Was the Worst of Times.... | 01/01/15 |
2014
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A Hand Is Put Into Theirs... And the Hand May Be a Little Child's | 12/29/14 |
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Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream The Disconnect Between Dreaming and Reality | 12/26/14 |
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What Einstein Taught Me About Riding a Bike ...Keep Moving | 12/22/14 |
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Fred Said that His Iceberg is Melting We Call It Global Warming | 12/19/14 |
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It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a... Blimp! | 12/15/14 |
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Serendipity... Finding Without Looking | 12/12/14 |
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Typhoid Mary and Ebola Kaci The Quarantine Question | 12/08/14 |
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Jaws for Two: Marine Biology 101 | 12/05/14 |
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Ebola Warning from the Scientific Community | 12/1/14 |
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Putin A Czar on a Fool's Errand | 11/28/14 |
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BP is Back But Are They Telling the Truth This Time? | 11/24/14 |
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A Fool with a Plan... Is Better Than a Genius with No Plan. | 11/21/14 |
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Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915 "I Never Died," Says He. | 11/19/14 |
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Signature Holidays | 11/17/14 |
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Death is the Best Invention of Life Breathing Is Not Living | 11/14/14 |
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From Witches to Marrying Monkeys Conservatives Have an Answer | 11/10/14 |
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"No, I'm Just Jack" "No, You Are Not Just Jack" | 11/07/14 |
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What Did You Learn in College Today? Dragonflies and Shells 101 | 11/03/14 |
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Seeing When You Think You See... The Difference is Dazzling. | 10/31/14 |
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"The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Men... Often Go Awry" | 10/27/14 |
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To Thine Own Self Be True... An Ethical First Step | 10/24/14 |
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Dreadnoughtus What's in a Name When It Comes To Dinosaurs? | 10/20/14 |
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A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great "Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal." | 10/17/14 |
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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Its History and Etymology | 10/13/14 |
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On Seeing the Light...part II And I Thought that I Had Seen the Light | 10/10/14 |
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My Dots in Life Get Connected With the Singing of Pete Seeger | 10/06/14 |
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Nothing is Secure Which is a Great Blessing | 10/03/14 |
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Christopher Robin is Correct... However, You Must Believe It Before It Is. | 09/29/14 |
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Wolverton Mountain The Place Where Dreams Occur | 09/26/14 |
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Owen's Desk Which Might Have Been Spruance or Letterman's | 09/22/14 |
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Scottish Independence You Need No More Sunshine To Mature. | 09/18/14 |
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Monkeying Around... Selfie and Scotland | 09/18/14 |
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Pushing Oneself... What I Learned from T. S. Eliot | 09/14/14 |
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Articles as a Living Legacy... Why I Write | 09/12/14 |
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The Still, Small Voice Emerson and All of Us Have that Voice | 09/08/14 |
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It is in Giving that We Get... Especially in Restaurants in Valparaiso. | 09/05/14 |
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Snickerdoodles... Let the Baking Begin. | 09/01/14 |
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Miracles on the Street... Struggling for Life | 08/29/14 |
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Finding a King Cobra in Indy... Frank Buck and Associate Will Bring 'Em Back Alive. | 08/25/14 |
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The Morphing of Frank Buck and Me Bring 'Em Back Alive Regardless of the Danger | 08/22/14 |
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Jack's Birthday Cake for Owen... The Master Cake Decorator Begins. | 08/18/14 |
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Darkest Before Dawn A Logical Disconnect that Is True | 08/15/14 |
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Owen's Surprise Birthday Cake for Jack... The Apprentice to the Master Decorator | 08/11/14 |
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An Essay on Leadership Or the Blind Leading the Blind | 08/07/14 |
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What Can We Learn from Very Smart People? The Relationship between Genius and Guts. | 08/04/14 |
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Getting Really Organized... Late in Life | 07/31/14 |
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The Sixth Extinction And the Next Dark Ages | 07/27/14 |
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Come Alive... Before You Die. | 07/24/14 |
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First, It Was a Car and then Women Jack and the Learning Curve to Adulthood | 07/21/14 |
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Orwell and Scottish Independence Or Smell the Heather and Vote for Independence | 07/18/14 |
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Einstein and Imagination Passing It On | 07/14/14 |
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Orwell Was Ahead of His Time... He Should Have Lived in 2014 | 07/10/14 |
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Burma-Shave... And Seeing the Light | 07/07/14 |
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Making a Birthday Cake for Daddy A Pair of Toddlers' Delight | 07/04/14 |
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Conservatives... the Naysayers to the Future | 06/30/14 |
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The Chilling Reality of Global Warming Where Does Lying Get Politicians and the Rest of Us? | 06/28/14 |
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Connecting the Dots... For Scottish Independence | 06/24/14 |
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Moravec Evolution or the 21st Century Scopes Trial | 06/21/14 |
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Old Men Should Plant Trees... And They Should Be Planted Now. | 06/16/14 |
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Connecting the Dots With Jack and Owen Teaching Them To Be Steve Jobs-esque | 06/14/14 |
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Changing the World... The Story of My Struggle | 06/10/14 |
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It Was Obamacare, then Benghazi... Enter Dr. Rove | 06/06/14 |
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Jack and Owen Novice 21st Century Johnny Appleseeds | 06/01/14 |
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The White Man's Burden... Then and Now. | 05/28/14 |
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Two New Einsteins... By Asking Why. | 05/25/14 |
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Right-Brain Pain and Gain... Getting Organized After Seeing the Light | 05/21/14 |
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Leaving a Legacy... A Concern of a 71-Year Old. | 05/18/14 |
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The Cosmic Calendar ...and Our Importance on the Pale Blue Dot | 05/15/14 |
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Orwell and Kipling and the Battle of Burma Or Why I Care | 05/12/14 |
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Jack and Owen's First Art Class Assignment... A Piece of Fine Art | 05/09/14 |
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Advantages of Growing Old ...You Will Not Be Here in the 22nd Century | 05/05/14 |
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Learning to Play Chess from a Master What Jack and Owen Will Learn from Me. | 05/02/14 |
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"Hang a Lantern on Your Problems..." So All Can See. | 04/27/14 |
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One of the Advantages of Being Right-Brain: Finding Another Prison. | 04/24/14 |
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Good Trip / Bad Trip ...the Great Benefits of Bad Trips | 04/21/14 |
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Faulkner's Lesson of Life... Even When the Last Ding-dong of Doom has Clanged. | 04/17/14 |
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Exceptionalism Seen in the US, Scotland, and Myanmar | 04/14/14 |
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The Sins of the Father in Ukraine... on Steroids | 04/11/14 |
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The Sins of the Father in America... What We Must Remember | 04/07/14 |
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The Golden Rock Rocks and Stones Hold Countries Together | 04/02/14 |
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Don McLean Teaching: Teach by Example | 03/30/14 |
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On Seeing the Light... More Clearly | 03/28/14 |
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Jack's Art Class Louie a Generation Later | 03/25/14 |
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I See More Clearly... Thanks to Carl Sagan. | 03/24/14 |
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Owen's View on Life Carpe Diem | 03/21/14 |
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Confucius Said... and We Need to Listen | 03/19/14 |
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Open-Letter from a Scottish-American An Opportunity To Learn From Myanmar | 03/18/14 |
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Learning About Sexism in the Middle East And Learning About An Airlines | 03/14/14 |
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Big Churches, Big Poverty, Big Problems ...and even bigger questions. | 03/10/14 |
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The Value of Travel... Or Learning About Myanmar. | 03/07/14 |
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Once Upon a Time... and they all lived happily ever after. | 03/05/14 |
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The Two Czars Parallels between Ukraine and Russia then and now | 03/03/14 |
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The Two Ladies: Parallels between the Ukraine and Myanmar | 03/01/14 |
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Stop the Presses I am Experimenting with a New Medium. | 02/28/14 |
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What the Japanese Remembered During WWII... Some Japanese Did and Some Didn't Remember | 02/24/14 |
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The Blessing and the Curse of the Internet ...Everyone Will Have a Saved Memory | 02/20/14 |
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What I Learned on the Streets of Yangon... From Two Dogs. | 02/17/14 |
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The Value of Dreaming Instructions from My Cardiologist... | 02/14/14 |
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Myanmar Itinerary | 02/13/14 |
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I Bet that He Never Read Any Shakespeare... But He Clearly Got the Message | 02/10/14 |
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The Birth of Burma And Betting on that Nation's Future | 02/06/14 |
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What I Learned at the Golden Rock... Believe in the Impossible | 02/02/14 |
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Never Too Old to Learn My Techy Computer Confession... | 02/01/14 |
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Protest Movements in Myanmar and the US... We Shall Overcome! | 01/30/14 |
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I Have Seen the Light... Thanks to Myanmar and Dr. Marchand | 01/28/14 |
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Learning from Two Hermits Sending a Pot of Gold Back Home... | 01/23/14 |
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An Interesting Thing Happened to Me ...On the Road to Mandalay. | 01/20/14 |
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A Tribute to the Lady Myanmar and the World Will Be Better Because of Her. | 01/14/14 |
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Leaving a Legacy A Legacy More Valuable Than Money | 01/05/14 |
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British Colonial Rule In America, Scotland, Burma, and the World | 01/01/14 |
2013
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Rand Paul Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire | 12/29/13 |
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The Fading of the Royal We... Something that Americans Need to Know | 12/25/13 |
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Michele Bachmann An Eschatological Expert | 12/20/13 |
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Charlie McCarthy...Then and Now Times Change and So Do the Dummies | 12/15/13 |
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Count Dracula... And the Scottish Independence Movement | 12/10/13 |
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Four Reasons for Scottish Independence Devolution Seen By a Scottish-American | 12/05/13 |
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Darrow and the Present Remembering to Avoid Repetition | 12/01/13 |
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The Martians aren't Invading... But Stupid People are. | 11/26/13 |
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BP/BS-Ism and the Scottish Vote Learning from the Past | 11/22/13 |
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Congressional Stupid is Doers You Decide the IQ of Some of These Candidates. | 11/17/13 |
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Cromwell's Dissolution of the Long Parliament... Then and Now. | 11/13/13 |
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Obama's Place in History Learning from Accomplishments | 11/09/13 |
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Frugal But Smart Physics and Scottish Independence | 11/03/13 |
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Halloween Celebration... Something That Scotland Should Take Note | 10/31/13 |
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Churchillian Cringe Cringes are Inferiority Complexes | 10/27/13 |
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Pelvic Problems and Driving... An Interesting Attempt at Change | 10/25/13 |
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Ace is the Place... Try the One at 3833 N. Illinois, St. in Indy | 10/22/13 |
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Ted Still Cannot Get It... Will He Ever Say, "I Do So Like Green Eggs and Ham?" | 10/20/13 |
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Lawrence of Arabia A Mentor of Mine | 10/18/13 |
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Jack's Desk What a Difference Two and a Half Years Make | 10/12/13 |
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Semantic Shift ...Morphing the Meaning of Words | 10/07/13 |
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Getting to the End of the Line On the Railway of Death | 10/01/13 |
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Winter Contains Spring... I'm Enjoying the Blessing | 09/27/13 |
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As Time Goes By Or How Your Weltanschauung Morphs | 09/25/13 |
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Movies that Morphed into Science Or How Martian Invaders Affect Us | 09/22/13 |
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Scotland Will Be Better Together Really? | 09/18/13 |
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Forrester and I in Our Winters Seasons Change Young Man... | 09/10/13 |
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What I Learned Being Mentored An Old Man and His Grandson | 09/01/13 |
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Scotland's Independence Vote And Its Meaning to You | 08/28/13 |
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The Education of Jack The First Steps | 08/25/13 |
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Blue Moon And the Double Paradox | 08/20/13 |
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Papa's Advice to Squirt... While Going Off to College | 08/18/13 |
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Mixing of Food and History The Relationship Between the Stone and the Scone | 08/16/13 |
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The Benefits of Learning... From Both Rosslyn and China | 08/12/13 |
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An Open Letter to My Fellow Scots... Things are Not as Cloudy as They May Seem | 08/10/13 |
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What I Learned on My Second Trip to Rosslyn It is a Question of Whether to Be Better or Bitter... | 08/08/13 |
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Don Quixote Rides Again... Or Looking Down the Hallway | 08/04/13 |
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Lessons Learned from Pandora and Cain Or the Story of the Jar and the Mark | 07/27/13 |
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Philosophy Can Change Your Lives Or Thinking About Walking in Another's Shoes | 07/23/13 |
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The Passing of Elmo to a New Generation... Or the Passing of Cookie Monster to a Free Scotland | 07/17/13 |
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Jack and Owen's Birthday What You Notice Now Having Been There and Done That | 07/13/13 |
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"Art is a Lie that Tells the Truth" Or What I Want to Do When I Grow Up | 07/10/13 |
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Einstein's and My Brain... How Different are Our Brains? | 07/06/13 |
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Scottish Consciousness... Learning from Steve Biko | 06/24/13 |
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Learning to Dance in the Rain... Or What Edison Knew About Dancing | 06/18/13 |
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Mark Twain and I... How Our Weltanschauungs Parallel | 06/16/13 |
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Pain is Pain... That Makes Me Tick | 06/07/13 |
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Advice to My Granddaughter... My Only Granddaughter | 06/03/13 |
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The Royal We And a Scottish Spider | 06/02/13 |
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How Will the Scots Vote? It's All About Who They Emulate | 05/31/13 |
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In Quest of the Loch Ness Monster... Is it Real? | 05/27/13 |
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There Exists a Thin Line... Between Minding Your Business and Minding Your Business | 05/25/13 |
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Humpty Dumpty Party Or How to Celebrate Being Alive | 05/22/13 |
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Arthur's Stones From Arthur's Seat | 05/20/13 |
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Do You Have Any Suggestions... On Planning My New Life? | 05/18/13 |
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Scottish Independence and Animal Farm These are Days of Miracle and Wonder | 05/13/13 |
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Promise Made and Promise Not Kept Bannockburn and the 2014 Referendum | 04/23/13 |
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An Open Letter to Kim Jong-Un It's Not Just the Peasants that Lack | 04/15/13 |
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Looking Back and Forward... While Singing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" | 04/12/13 |
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Little Jack Horner Or How Heavy Words Often Get Lightly Used and Confused | 04/06/13 |
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Roberts and the Rubicon Open Letter to Chief Justice Roberts | 03/29/13 |
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Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Three Bags Full of Meaning | 03/27/13 |
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The Philosophical Objective... The Avoidance of Becoming Human Lemmings | 03/26/13 |
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Portman and Gays Rob Has Left the Retention Cul-Du-Sac | 03/21/13 |
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Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism How Really Special are We? | 03/18/13 |
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Learning the Truth from the Past... Will Benefit the Future | 03/15/13 |
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Learning Latin in Ephesus... VomitāRe | 03/14/13 |
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Evolution Vs. Creationism The Blessing of Problems - Learning | 03/13/13 |
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Mary, Mary Quite Contrary Learning History from Nursery Rhymes | 03/11/13 |
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We are All Greeks ...Receiving and Responding | 03/05/13 |
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Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater ...Sexism in a Nursery Rhyme | 03/03/13 |
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Limited Lineage Looking Back and Looking Forward | 02/07/13 |
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Wondrous World of Why? On Staying Engaged in Life | 02/03/13 |
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A Lesson About Life What I Finally Learned When Turning 70 | 01/28/13 |
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Not All Women are Perfect... Here are Some Examples | 01/22/13 |
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The Egyptians and the Republicans ...A Learning from the Past | 01/16/13 |
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New Year's Resolution for the Opposite Sex Or Suggestions from a Very Feminist Male | 01/01/13 |
2012
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Is it a Time to Chill or a Time to Get Busy... That is the Question? | 12/31/12 |
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The Fighting TÉMÉRaire Growing Old and Understanding Art | 12/15/12 |
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The End of Time Won't Come on December 21st... Unless My Prediction is Wrong | 12/12/12 |
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On My 70th Birthday... Observations About Technology over Those Years | 12/10/12 |
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The Three Grovers of My Life The Farmer, the Puppet, the Incarnate God | 12/01/12 |
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Reflections on Getting Old... One of the Reasons for My Loving Grandchildren | 11/23/12 |
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Bonhoeffer—Crossing the Line... Thank You: Dietrich, Bobby and Barack | 11/20/12 |
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BS from BP BP is in Deepwater | 11/17/12 |
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Binders of BS... Could Create Blessings from BS | 11/11/12 |
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"It was The Best of Times..." Economic and Natural Disasters | 11/04/12 |
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Moonwalking over Women... "Stupid is as Stupid Does" | 11/01/12 |
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Levels of Learning... Or How to Make Learning 3-D | 10/27/12 |
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Scotland's Independence Movement ...A 21st Century Renaissance | 10/20/12 |
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Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Jack, Owen, and I... Don't Major in the Minors of Life | 10/18/12 |
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No Pain, No Gain... Learning to Jump to Success | 09/09/12 |
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Connecting the Dots... On Your Way to Eldorado | 09/09/12 |
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Open Letter to the Chief Justice John Roberts... And Open Dinner Invitation | 09/05/12 |
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Clint Eastwood's Speech... And the Importance of Living Wills | 09/03/12 |
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Correcting Churchill... The Value of Viewing Life | 08/28/12 |
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The Bridge Builder ...Another Example of Wisdom | 08/23/12 |
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On the Road to Mandalay ...A Road Less Traveled | 08/20/12 |
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The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree Newton...Yes-Romney...No | 08/14/12 |
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Ethics at Two Levels And Neither Work Well for Romney | 08/12/12 |
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When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Going? I'd Modify that Adage | 08/11/12 |
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Tabula Rasa... The Myth | 08/05/12 |
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Campbell Has Gone Socratic An American Questioning | 07/30/12 |
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Acquiring a Heart of Wisdom... Cuddling with Grandchildren | 07/23/12 |
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Royal Racism ...Holier Than Thou | 06/10/12 |
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Dating of Independence Day 1776 and 2014 | 06/06/12 |
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Sink the Bismarck What We Can Learn of the Past and Present | 05/18/12 |
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An Old Man and His Grandson Then and Now | 05/09/12 |
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Political Predictions Clinton vs. Santorum in 2016, and Clinton Wins | 04/15/12 |
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On Having Gifted Grandchildren It's All Genetic | 04/10/12 |
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Learning is Important...at Any Age What My Students Can Learn from Jack | 01/29/12 |
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Advice to Jack Having Lived Much of My Life | 01/15/12 |
2011
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Lean on Me An Open Letter to My Grandson | 11/11/11 |
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O Ship of State Thoughts While Sailing My Ocean | 10/18/11 |
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Come and Get Them Molon Labe Both Then and Now | 09/25/11 |
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Slavery Then and Now | 09/24/11 |
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The Phoenix - Then and Now My Pilgrimage Back to Greece | 08/01/11 |
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A Special Gift A Signed One Dollar Bill | 07/07/11 |
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Jack's Desks A Desk with Famous Users | 06/20/11 |
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Adoption It is a Two-Way Street | 06/18/11 |
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Palin and History The Resurrection of Life via Revere's Ride | 06/12/11 |
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Some Things that You Need to Learn, Jack Learn Well, and You Will Succeed Well | 06/04/11 |
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My Friend Harry Talk to Me Next | 06/01/11 |
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A Vision of a New America Has Replaced Our "You are Fired" Attitude | 05/05/11 |
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The Blessings of Radiation The Strange Mix of Blessings and Curses | 05/01/11 |
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Odysseus is My Middle Name My Similarities with Ancient Mariners | 04/25/11 |
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Funny Story About My Kidney Stone The Strange Mix of Blessings and Curses | 04/22/11 |
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Benjamin Franklin Helped Jack, And Jack Helped Benjamin Franklin | 03/03/11 |
2010
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So What are You Going to Do About It? The Advantages of Dreaming | 12/05/10 |
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I'm Not Liberal Enough And Neither is America Just Say No to the Just Say No Group | 12/01/10 |
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On Remembering Grandfathers The Benefit of Remembering Time Together | 11/25/10 |
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The Great Gate of Kiev Right Brain Curiosity | 11/22/10 |
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Lance Armstrong of Doubletree A Biking Lesson | 11/10/10 |
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One of the Reasons for Biking... Jack | 10/09/10 |
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Obama Signing the Affordable Care Act America Finally Has Universal Healthcare | 03/23/10 |
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The Good Fortune of Winding-Up in Hue, Vietnam | 01/30/10 |
2009
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Your Butterfly Net: Thoughts About Lucy in the Sky | 10/11/09 |
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The Luddites are Back The Things I Learned About National Healthcare--40-Years Ago | 08/23/09 |
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The Bridge Over/On the River Kwai Myths and Realities | 07/07/09 |
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Speaking of Security.... On Winning an All Expense Paid Trip to Obama's Inauguration | 05/18/09 |
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Words of Wisdom that I Didn't Remember Pearls of Wisdom from ICU | 02/19/09 |
2008
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Bobby and Barack Election of Barack Obama | 09/28/08 |
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Tibetan Version of Tiananmen Square "Watch Out for What You Wish; You Might Get It." | 03/24/08 |
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Present, But Not Voting Out of Sight, Out of Mind | 03/05/08 |
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Bobby and John Grey A Canine Example for Each of Us | 02/17/08 |
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Love's Second Name The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained... | 01/26/08 |
2007
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Believing in a Dream...Again Maybe Chris Matthews of Hardball was Wrong This Election Cycle | 12/11/07 |
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Biko A Man Who Died for an Idea that Didn't Die | 09/12/07 |
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Development without Destruction A Position Paper on Tourism Development in the Developing World | 04/18/07 |
2006
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Donald Woods A White Liberal Who Knew His Place... | 08/05/06 |
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Freedom of the Mind The Contributions of Stephen Biko | 08/03/06 |
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Why Africa? For a Myriads of Reasons... | 07/24/06 |
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A Tribute to Nelson Mandela Happy Birthday from All Your Admirers from Around the World | 06/18/06 |
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What's Wrong with Being a Liberal? A Defense of the Left-Wing | 05/22/06 |
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Friedman is Right Columbus was Wrong After All--the World is Flat! | 04/19/06 |
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I Am Not a Sloth Handling My Workload | 04/18/06 |
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DÉJÀ Vu All over Again A Helping Hand from Desmond Tutu--Again | 03/19/06 |
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Plato and the Grand Tour Avoiding the Shadows of Education | 02/20/06 |
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Sexism Masquerading as Liberation A Critique on the Subtleties of Sexism | 01/13/06 |
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Where Do You Draw the Line? Reflections of a Pointy-Headed Intellectual | 01/08/06 |
2005
| Cautionary Advice About Traveling in China One Traveler's Near-Nightmare | 09/03/05 |
| Darwin, Intelligent Design, and the Panda Bear Proof Provided By Panda Bears that Evolution is Correct | 12/22/05 |
| Confession of an Adventurer Coming Clean About My Travel Addiction | 12/03/05 |
| Packing the Supreme Court with More Luddites As Dr. Phil Would Say, "Get Real." | 11/14/05 |
| Getting Wired for Adventure--Again Planning for the Next Great Road Trip to Africa | 11/11/05 |
| Education: a Matter of Life or Death Life-Long Learning and the Quality of One's Life | 10/18/05 |
| In Quest of Red Chili Peppers Dealing with Despair Generated By Student Evaluations | 10/10/05 |
| Abortion as Social Therapy The Consequences of Where Bill Bennett's Ideas Could Take Us | 10/05/05 |
| The Bird Flu and You The Real WMD | 10/03/05 |
| The Great and Very Strange Emperor Qin Where was OSHA When the Emperor Needed It? | 09/25/05 |
| Old Soldiers Never Die; They Just Fade Away What General MacArthur Could Have Told Emperor Qin Shi Huang | 09/07/05 |
| The Grass Grows Well on Tiananmen Square Learning that Sandburg was Right Miles Away from Home | 09/02/05 |
| Defying the Law of Life Returning to My Roots | 08/09/05 |
| Sky Burial in Tibet My Near-Death Experience in Lhasa | 07/26/05 |
| A New Koan Lesson Learned Firsthand in China | 07/15/05 |
| My Wife was Right...Again! A Needed Reality Check on My Dream | 07/01/05 |
| The Contradictions that are China Contradictions is China's Middle Name | 06/28/05 |
| Lessons from an Experienced Traveler Getting a Kata to the Shakyamuni Buddha | 06/23/05 |
| What You See is What You Get Seeing the Virgin Mary in an Under Path of an Expressway | 05/01/05 |
| Desire for Certainty in an Uncertain World Getting it Right Before Standing Firmly on Moral Issues | 04/28/05 |
| Employing the Insecticide Defense A Liberal Coming to the Aid of Tom Delay | 04/17/05 |
| Kevorkian, Schiavo, and the Pope What is Good for the Pope is Good for the People. | 04/13/05 |
| "It's an Ill Wind that Blows No Good" The Threat of Theocracy in America as Seen in the Schiavo Case | 04/01/05 |
| Grandstanding in a Grand Manner The Misuse of the Terri Schiavo Tragedy | 03/20/05 |
| Clash of Cultures Thoughts About the World While Wallpapering Our Chinese Bedroom | 03/18/05 |
| Being Cheap Can Be Expensive Learning Life's Lesson--Again | 03/09/05 |
| Allegory of the Cave--Part 2 Finding Plato's Lost Allegory About Cavemen | 02/15/05 |
| It's Not Easy Being Blue Personal Travails with Understanding Life | 01/20/05 |
| Tsunami Theology for Dummies Attempting to Understand This Natural Tragedy | 01/08/05 |
| What Must the Peasants Think? Messages that We Inadvertently Send By What We Consume | 01/07/05 |
2004
| Racism Dies a Very Slow Death in Alabama Kenny Roger's Lyrical Suggestion | 12/24/04 |
| "Whose Grandfather was That?" On Being a Fourth-Grade Kickball Star | 12/03/04 |
| On Being Green While Preparing for Winter Or the Value of Fox Urine | 11/19/04 |
| “Excuse Me; Do You Speak Mandarin Chinese?” or 劳驾; 您讲普通话 Preparing for a Trip to China | 11/03/04 |
| How Many Deaths Will it Take Till He Knows...? Superman and the Gipper are Gone | 10/17/04 |
| It Wasn't Meant to Happen Learnings for Our Lives About Kennedy's Death in Dallas | 10/15/04 |
| Adding an Arbor Reflections of China--Past and Future | 10/05/04 |
| It Doesn't Get Better Than This! Lights Shining in My Bedroom | 09/29/04 |
| The Last Straw--Adam's Curse The Losing Battle of the Y-Chromosome | 09/19/04 |
| Seeing Sara Again Thoughts About Adopting a Little Child | 09/12/04 |
| Big Brother and the Embedded Microchip Classroom Discussion Revisited at Panera Bread | 09/02/04 |
| I'm Proud to Be an American The Two Americas as Seen from the Perspective of the Athens Olympics | 08/21/04 |
| Eschatological Eclecticism Covering All My Bases | 08/15/04 |
| Kobe and the Constitution Revisiting Animal Farm Where Some are Presumed More Innocent Then Others | 08/07/04 |
| Rethinking the Stem Cell Issue Kant and the Ethics of Research | 07/25/04 |
| Purple Shirt from Sara on Father's Day Exploring My Feminine Side | 07/25/04 |
| Sea Cucumber--the Sure Cure for What Ails Me? Have I Found the Ultimate Panacea? |
| Graduation Address Learning Koans for Life 101 | 06/18/04 |
| Serendipity and Ronald Reagan Benefiting from Unintended Consequences | 06/11/04 |
| Turning Bad into Good A Secret to Success | 06/06/04 |
| The Cost of Getting an Interview The Grueling Advantage of Getting an Interview with Robert Novak | 05/16/04 |
| Learning from Mistakes George Santayana, Abu Ghraib Prison, and National Hubris | 05/07/04 |
| Filling Martha Stewart's Shoes What If Oprah Stops In? | 03/29/04 |
| Finding Wolverton Mountain My Interview with the BBC | 03/22/04 |
| Gay Marriage Getting Honest on a Non-Issue | 03/21/04 |
| Volunteering to Be Mr. Martha On My Replacing Martha Stewart as America's Decorating Diva | 03/18/04 |
| Feet of Clay The Nexus of Agamemnon and Ralph Nader | 02/22/04 |
| Debut with a Dolphin Reflections on Swimming with a Dolphin | 02/20/04 |
| Travel Tips for a Troubled Time Hints for Having a Safe Trip | 02/16/04 |
| Manifest Destiny Divining the Mind of the Divine | 01/22/04 |
| My Mother Always Said, "Allen"... Dealing with My Mother's Disinformation | 01/13/04 |
2003
| Saving the Snows of Kilimanjaro A Present-Day Parable About Our Attempts to Stave Off the Inevitable | 12/25/03 |
| Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Revisiting the Fabled Reindeer | 12/24/03 |
| Buddha was Correct About One Thing A Present-Day Parable About Tanha and Televisions | 12/14/03 |
| Unknotting My Underwear Hypocrisy from the Anglican Church, to Rush's Rehab, to the Confederate Flag | 11/24/03 |
| From Balls of String to Rolls of Toilet Paper Life Comes Full Circle | 11/23/03 |
| A Moai for the Mainland Easter Island Comes to Crown Point | 11/16/03 |
| I Volunteer! My Answer to Stupid TV Programs and Commercials | 11/03/03 |
| The Loch Ness Monster Has Been Spotted! After Years of Disappointment, Success | 10/10/03 |
| Taoism, Tall Trees, and Richard Grasso What the Former Head of the New York Stock Exchange Missed By Not Attending DeVry | 10/07/03 |
| Gaining Enlightenment Reflections on the Dalai Lama's Lifetime of Exile | 09/22/03 |
| Jefferson, Education, Democracy, and the Ten Commandments Learning Our ABCs of History | 09/09/03 |
| Total Recall--California! After They Recall Davis, We Can Then Invade California and Bring Democracy To That Troubled State. It Will Be Just Like Iraq. | 08/25/03 |
| My "Toes Up" File What to Do with Me When I'm Done | 08/19/03 |
| The Amistad and the American Dream Captain Pinkney's Ironic Vocation | 08/18/03 |
| Dream a Little Dream with Me Reflections on Boarding the HMS Bounty | 08/05/03 |
| Spamming Has Gone Too Far Coping with Spam | 08/04/03 |
| Before and After--with a Twist Musings over What I Might Have Looked Like | 06/29/03 |
| Now is the Time to Get Real Weltanschauung Change in the Middle East | 06/22/03 |
| Hypocrisy How Hypocrisy About the Past Affects Our National Security | 03/29/03 |
| The Value of Travel Reflections on Travel and Education | 03/13/03 |
| Preparedness Against Terrorism Get Your Duct Tape, But Don't Forget the Toilet Paper | 02/18/03 |
| Moving with a Manta Ray Chasing a Manta Ray Across a Lagoon | 02/12/03 |
| Still in Search of Paradise Update on My Quest for the Territorial Grail | 02/06/03 |
| "I Don't Do Buffets...." Sometimes You Just Can't Please Everyone | 01/29/03 |
| Racial Profiling Doesn't Exist.... How I was Nearly Stripped-Searched at O'Hare | 01/25/03 |
| Coping with Growing Old Getting Up to Date When You are Dated | 01/20/03 |
| After Christmas Bargain Shopping in Santiago Buying Pareos from Paradise | 01/15/03 |
| Being Scottish in the South Pacific The Problem with French Polynesia If You are Scottish | 01/10/03 |
| Christmas Cattle Rustlers on Easter Island Stumbling Upon Rustlers and Living to Tell All About It | 01/02/03 |
2002
| Christmas Mass on Easter Island Experiencing the Most Memorable Christmas Eve Service in a Lifetime | 12/25/02 |
| Brick Mixing A Problem-Solving Approach to Life | 12/10/02 |
| "Hey, I Want Their Scalps." The Obscene Quest to Be the Executioner | 11/17/02 |
| Only in America Clash Between Medievalism and Modernity | 11/03/02 |
| Fear Factor Insights that Surfaced from Below the Water | 10/07/02 |
| Taking the Terror Out of Terrorism Getting a Grip on the New Reality | 09/11/02 |
| Following in the Flippers of Jacque Cousteau Learning to Navigate in the Underwater World--Lesson 1 | 09/06/02 |
| Simon Says Reflections on My Interview with Paul Simon | 09/05/02 |
| Just One of Those Days...or Rather Weeks My Plight Trying to See More Clearly | 09/04/02 |
| I Saw the Mothman! My True Account of Seeing the Mothman of Muskingum College | 08/20/02 |
| A Third Generation is Needed Answering Machines with Emotion Recognition | 08/05/02 |
| Traveling with Nine Lives Reflections on How Close I've Come to Terrorism | 07/25/02 |
| A Chip Off the Old Block Do We Really Need Another Ted Williams? | 07/07/02 |
| One Nation Under God Some Background on the Brouhaha over the Pledge of Allegiance | 07/04/02 |
| Snorkeling in the South Pacific A Practical Guide for Getting Ready | 06/23/02 |
| The Cost of Unwanted Advice Whistle-Blowers Then and Now | 06/11/02 |
| KLM Follow-Up Advice About Airline Delays | 06/09/02 |
| Vanity of Vanities Humorous Historical Cautions of Cloning | 05/26/02 |
| Starting to Look Like Andy Rooney Thoughts About the Journey into the Golden Years | 05/20/02 |
| Tribute to Thor His Journeys Captured my Imagination | 05/14/02 |
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The Ants Will Lead Us Revisiting George Eliot and Silas Marner with Argentine Ants | 04/29/02 |
| Journalists of the World Unite! First, it was ABC and Koppel; Now It's Pitcairn and Campbell | 03/25/02 |
| Problems with the Pitcairn Paradise Captain Cook was Correct | 03/13/02 |
| Getting to Paradise Lost You Can't Get to Pitcairn Island from Here | 03/01/02 |
| America's Image on TV Olympic Reflections of America | 02/26/02 |
| Big Brother is Watching Clarion Call of Caution | 02/23/02 |
| Guido's Guide to Gourmet Cooking How to Become a Culinary Expert and Impress Others in Your Kitchen | 02/18/02 |
| Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Life, Death, and the Hope for New Life | 02/11/02 |
| Cigars for Studs A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Interviewing Studs | 01/30/02 |
| My First Indian Meal Cultural Shock at 30,000 Feet | 01/28/02 |
| Dinner with Studs Breaking Bread with a Legend | 01/20/02 |
| Paradigm of Perseverance Enjoying the Journey Getting to Studs Terkel | 01/12/02 |
| All But the Pulitzer.... Striking Similarities with Studs | 01/10/02 |
| What Next? Looking for a Place to Go | 01/08/02 |
2001
| Terminality Enhances the Present A Koan Delivered By the Death of George Harrison | 12/26/01 |
| ...Or Else the Terrorists Win A New Understanding of a Hackneyed Phrase | 12/18/01 |
| Racism on the Rooftop of the World A Lesson on Pluralism | 12/07/01 |
| God is Going on Sabbatical My Recent Conversation with God | 11/25/01 |
| Make Anthrax Work for You Using Anthrax Rather Than Being Abused By It | 11/03/01 |
| Delay on Tibetan Independence Day Being in Tibet on a National Holiday | 10/30/01 |
| Growing Old Two Old Men Talk About Mongolia and Growing Old | 10/27/01 |
| Going Berserk over Terrorism Dealing with Our Reaction to Terrorism | 10/13/01 |
| I Did My Part; I Spent My $600 Using My Tax-Refund Check | 10/03/01 |
| Rip Van Winkle of the 21st Century On Waking Up to the Reality of Our World | 09/27/01 |
| Meaning in Meaninglessness Finding Comfort Amid Chaos | 09/18/01 |
| Finding Sara-Part 3 Three Saras Arrive from China | 09/15/01 |
| How Not to Run an Airline Stranded in Delhi By Northwest/KLM | 09/12/01 |
| On India's Independence Day Reflections on India After the British Presence | 09/12/01 |
| Finding Sara - Part 2 Actually Finding Sara in Lhasa, Tibet | 09/03/01 |
| On Being Left-Handed ...And Traveling in India | 08/28/01 |
| Finding Sara - Part 1 Adopting a Tibetan Orphan | 08/16/01 |
| Bring on the Olympics The Positive Aspect of Having the Olympics in Beijing | 08/14/01 |
| Royal Rage on the Roof of the World Thoughts About the Killings in Nepal | 07/25/01 |
| Searching for Shangri-La A Personal Journey | 07/10/01 |
| Morphing Michael and Maslow On Being Like Mike | 07/02/01 |
| Curse of Katmandu How Free are We? | 06/18/01 |
| Cloning A Downside of Cloning | 06/10/01 |
| Moving Like a Sloth Bear Thoughts on Aging from the Dalai Lama | 06/01/01 |
| From the Land of RAGBRAI to the Land of the Rajahs Preparing for a Trip of a Lifetime | 05/27/01 |
| "Monkey Man Terrorizes Delhi" Breaking Story from India | 05/16/01 |
| Move over Madame Defarge Avoid Catching McVeigh's Sickness | 05/01/01 |
| The Processionionary Caterpillars of Life Learning Lessons of Life from Insects | 04/16/01 |
| Taste of Life Flavor Ruminations | 04/05/01 |
| Quitter! Top 10 Ways Not to Be a Quitter | 03/20/01 |
| Learning from Lawrence T.E. Lawrence as a Role Model | 03/06/01 |
| Cheese Holes Government Standards for Swiss Cheese | 02/19/01 |
| I Love You A Message to All Those at Sea | 02/14/01 |
| The Importance of Unimportant Stones Learning from a Buddhist Monk | 02/01/01 |
| Darwin's Nose How Darwin Nearly Lost Out Because of His Nose | 01/05/01 |
2000
| Walking in the Snow with Wenceslas Wenceslas' Witness to Each of Us This Christmas | 12/24/00 |
| Brush with Death Vicarious Learnings from My Near-Death Experiences | 12/05/00 |
| Sydney Synopsis--the Cathy Freeman Story Reflections on the Sydney Olympics | 11/15/00 |
| Interview with Dr. Norbu A Fresh Look at Tibetan Culture and Beliefs | 11/01/00 |
| Dealing with Disappointments Steps to Success After Facing Disappointments | 10/14/00 |
| Getting Away with Murder Creating Karma in Your Life | 10/05/00 |
| Life is Mostly Mental Thoughts on the Price of Gas and Life | 09/14/00 |
| Cycling Complaints When You Think that You Have it Bad | 08/26/00 |
| On the Way to a Wedding Thoughts About Life as Time Goes By | 07/23/00 |
| An Ostrich's Thoughts on Denial Thoughts About Not Sticking Your Head in the Sand of Denial | 07/13/00 |
| Life Changing Event A Lesson About Appreciation | 06/30/00 |
| Wrestling a Rotweiler on the Road to RAGBRAI Practicing Taoism and Cycling | 06/15/00 |
| Mall-Walkers Observations About Exercising Mind and Body | 06/08/00 |
| Helpful Hints on the Way to RAGBRAI Preparation Paradigm for Biking and Living | 05/25/00 |
| Homer's Insight Learning About Life from Homer | 05/11/00 |
| I'm Throwing Down the Gauntlet A Modern-Day Chivalrous Challenge to All | 04/13/00 |
| On Riding to Samara Avoiding Dying of Fear | 03/30/00 |
| He Said that I was Pretty Feeding Those Starved for Attention | 03/16/00 |
| It's Starting Learnings from Losing My Keys | 02/28/00 |
| Why Wait for a Funeral? Reflections About Life in the Wake of Bob Collins' Death | 02/12/00 |
| Learning from Lorenzo Llama Thoughts from a Barnyard Philosopher | 02/03/00 |
| Don't Wear Flannel Shirts Suggestions to Avoid Senility | 01/20/00 |
| Acidophilus and Aging Advantages of Billions and Billions of Bacteria | 01/16/00 |
| Get a Grip Preparation for the Technological World | 01/06/00 |
1999
| Looking Ahead to the New Millennium Faulkner's Faith in Our Future | 12/31/99 |
| Grocery Savers' Cards An Insight into the Meaning of Christmas | 12/16/99 |
| New Scales The Positive Value to Bad News | 12/02/99 |
| Cell Phone Danger A Clarion Call to Arms Against the British--Again | 11/24/99 |
| Ivan the Thankful One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | 11/21/99 |
| Drain Plug Lesson A Lesson About Boating and Life | 11/04/99 |
| The Past Haunting the Future Halloween's Message for Our Present Fears | 10/30/99 |
| Finding Strength in Weakness Billy Joel's Contribution to Your Success | 10/07/99 |
| Kaslor A New Acronym that Reduces Regrets | 09/23/99 |
| Wheel of Fortune Virus Change of Perception Due to Computer Disaster | 09/09/99 |
| The Flying Dutchman Wagner's Opera Has a Message for Each of Us | 08/25/99 |
| Falling Forward Practical Advice About Gaining Ground When You Fall | 08/12/99 |
| Arguing with a Fool Practical Suggestions for Resolving Arguments | 07/30/99 |
| Pain and Gain Advantages to Pain | 07/15/99 |
| I'm Afraid that He'll Leave Me Practical Advice About Romance and Life | 07/01/99 |
| Pessimist or Optimist The Choice is Yours Which You Will Be | 06/10/99 |
| Nessie Learning from the Loch Ness Monster | 05/09/99 |
| The Case of the Boiling Frog An Amphibian's Legacy to Us | 04/10/99 |
| Sputnik Teachings Derived from the Silent Sputnik | 04/03/99 |
| Ginkgo Biloba-the Thinking Elixir? My Attempts to Find the Fountain of (Mental) Youth | 03/24/99 |
| Dealing with Life's Oxymora How to Avoid Creating Oxymora | 03/04/99 |
| Living Life Not Changing It Grandmother Oakford's Advice on Life | 02/22/99 |
| The Rehnquist Revolution Taking a Fashion Lead from the Chief Justice | 02/11/99 |
| DNA When We Need It Improving the World with Cloning | 02/06/99 |
| The Pig Pen Phenomenon A Prescription for Mental Health | 01/27/99 |
| Godspeed, John Glenn Thoughts Concerning How Quickly Time Goes By | 01/13/99 |
1998
| Countdown to the Millennium Getting Ready to Usher in the New Millennium | 12/31/98 |
| Penny-Loafers Thoughts About Finding Happiness | 12/16/98 |
| The Lesson of the Pike Ways to Avoid Paralleling the Pike's Behavior | 12/10/98 |
| Once in a Blue Moon Creating Blue Moons in Your Universe | 11/18/98 |
| Wake-Up Calls Responding to Wake-Up Calls | 11/10/98 |
| Step Beyond the Impossible Wall A Lesson About Life Learned from the Great Wall of China | 10/01/98 |
| Buddha was Right Thoughts About Buddha and My Computer | 09/22/98 |
| Live While Dying Advice About Life | 09/12/98 |
| Michelle and the Wren Ways to Cope with First Flight Fears | 09/03/98 |
| Late Bloomer Thoughts About Making Your Dreams Come True | 08/27/98 |
| The Eels are Coming Coping Mechanisms for Potential Disasters | 08/13/98 |
| Crazy as a Loon Lesson on Life from a Loon | 08/09/98 |
| Backlighting Thoughts About Light, Locust Leaves, and Life | 07/14/98 |
| The Station and the Bulls Thoughts About Whether All the Bulls Will Return | 06/29/98 |
| Seeing Beyond Vanity- Part 1 Chronology of Coping with Trifocals | 06/10/98 |
| Seeing Beyond Vanity- Part 2 Chronology of Coping with Trifocals | 06/10/98 |
| Reinventing the Wheel Campbell's Ten Truths About Life | 06/03/98 |
| A Comet-Life Imitating Art Thoughts About the Impact of the Movie, Deep Impact | 05/07/98 |
| Avoiding the Hook A Lesson of Life from a Talk-Radio Host | 04/30/98 |
| Armor-the Art of Self-Protection Ideas on Protecting Oneself | 04/16/98 |
| All in a Wink of an Eye A True Story About Total Commitment | 04/09/98 |
| Coping with Butterflies Useful Advice from a Buddhist Monk | 04/02/98 |
| Getting into the Canoe of Life Discovering Your World from Your Canoe | 03/20/98 |
| Battles of Life Learning the Lessons of Life from History | 03/09/98 |
| Don't Grow Up About Achieving the Fountain of Life | 02/28/98 |
| What You Don't Know Could Kill You Doing Something Good for Your Heart | 02/01/98 |
| Road Rage in a Bagel Shop Food for Thought About Life | 01/26/98 |
| Shampoo Reflections on Shampoo and Life | 01/12/98 |
| Ways to Count Time in the New Year Thoughts About Having the Time of Our Lives | 01/05/98 |
1997
| Putting Santa Claus Back in Christmas A Christmas Story for the Entire New Year | 12/24/97 |
Pre 1997
| Do Right with Wrong Thoughts About Getting Even |
| What's Good for the Goose... A Story About Identification |
| Two Plus Two Doesn't Equal Twenty-Two Making Your Life Add Up Correctly |
| Buying a Year's Supply of Vitamins An Insight into Longevity |
| Princess Di's Death Learnings from Di's Death |
| If Only Correcting Our Perceptions About Life |
| Riding to Eldorado Challenge the Mountains of the Moon |
| Roswell - What Really Happened? Thoughts About the Roswell Sighting |
| The Anatomy of a Reaction--Part 1 Part 1 of a Chronology of Reactions to Possible Prostate Cancer |
| The Anatomy of a Reaction--Part 2 Part 2 Chronology of Reactions to Possible Prostate Cancer |
| The Old Man from Istanbul A Story About Shared Humanity |
| A Matter of Life or Death A True Story About Living Life While Facing Death |
| Teaching Your Shrimp to Whistle A Musical Story About Obtaining the Impossible |
| Androcles and the Coach A 20 Th Century Version Of Androcles and the Lion |
| Who is Really Mad with Mad Cow Disease? Some Thoughts on an Edible Armageddon |
| Poetry Poetry About a Grandchild |
| Today's Sorrows and Tomorrow's Joys Wisdom About Life Taught to Me By a Chinese Friend |
| Predicting the Future Thoughts About Moving to a College |
| Where Does the White Go When Snow Melts? Coping with a Lost Love |
| On Being Married to a Pumpkin Eater A Story About Dealing with Abuse |
| The Thumb-Eating Clam Learnings Derived from an Accident |
| Gold Medal Performances A Story About Perseverance |
| Skiing in a Storm A Bonding Process |
| Buying the Brooklyn Bridge Will Rogers and the Brooklyn Bridge |
| A Story for the Season A Christmas Story for the Entire Year |
| Leaving Tracks Thoughts About Leaving Tracks that Last |