2024
Another Eureka Moment Thank You, Nancy | 09/30/24 |
“I Want To Be Your Protector” Said the Neanderthal | 09/27/24 |
Following in the Footsteps of Lt. Zogg It’s All About Being Determined | 09/25/24 |
Two Worlds and Two Realities Pick Your Choice | 09/23/24 |
The Virgin King Enjoying Life in Another World | 09/20/24 |
Another Parallel With James Earl Jones and Me | 09/18/24 |
A Funny Thing Happened To Me As I Age, Not So Gracefully | 09/16/24 |
Discovering a Mentor In a Field of Dreams | 09/13/24 |
The Cat Lady By the Dog Gentleman | 09/11/24 |
Another Set of Photos For Ti Ti from PaPa Al | 09/09/24 |
Creating Fortress America Thoughts of Vulgar Vance | 09/06/24 |
Becoming a Monkey King It's More Than Mere Monkey Business | 09/04/24 |
The Weird Duo Donald the Dumb and Vulgar Vance | 09/02/24 |
“The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree” The Bobby Paradox | 08/30/24 |
We Are All Teachers Be Careful What You Teach | 08/28/24 |
Become a Bo Bo Gyi It's About Giving to Get. | 08/26/24 |
The Snowman vs Allen How To Change the World | 08/23/24 |
Ginger Has Done the Dance We Are Bonded as Dancers | 08/21/24 |
Creating Elysium In This World | 08/19/24 |
Destiny or Fate It is Another Either/Or Issue | 08/16/24 |
What’s with Nancy Nurenberg? It’s All About Feeling Dumb and Poor | 08/14/24 |
The Duality of Daffodils Carpe Diem | 08/12/24 |
Replying to Ti Ti’s Request For a Photo of PaPa Al | 08/09/24 |
Get With It Roar Like a Lion | 08/07/24 |
You Know that You Are Getting Old When You Don’t Know All the New Words and Slogans | 08/05/24 |
Trump as Savior Let Me Hear a Halleluiah | 08/02/24 |
Lessons Learned in Former British Colonies Like America, South Africa, and Myanmar | 07/31/24 |
The Third Old Man Or Three Coins in the Fountain of Life | 07/29/24 |
A Story of Two Old Men And How They Will Be Remembered | 07/26/24 |
The Washington Role Model The Cherry Tree and Flowering Crabapple Tree | 07/24/24 |
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let the World Know It is Snow’s Birthday! | 07/22/24 |
Thanking Our Grandmothers And Following in Their Footsteps | 07/17/24 |
Ukraine and Myanmar An Unfortunate Parallel | 07/15/24 |
My Kierkegaardian-esque Parable Either / Or | 07/12/24 |
A Parable about Geese Waddle or Fly | 07/10/24 |
If a Doctor Tells Me To Do Something Sometimes I Disobey | 07/08/24 |
It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again With the Father and Son | 07/05/24 |
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary What Would Kierkegaard Do? | 07/03/24 |
How to Become Rich Without Any Much Money | 07/01/24 |
How Will We Be Remembered Another Either / Or Essay | 06/28/24 |
Ethnic Cleansing Then and Now | 06/26/24 |
Christian Nationalism Who are These Christians? | 06/24/24 |
Another Funny Thing Happened At My Barber Shop | 06/21/24 |
We Need to Get Honest Much Sooner Than Later | 06/19/24 |
A Funny Thing Happened At My Doctor’s Office | 06/17/24 |
The Sickness Is Spreading Among Many Americans | 06/14/24 |
Had We All Read Longfellow America Would Be a Better Place | 06/12/24 |
I’m Leading Death Again On My Dancefloor of Life | 06/10/24 |
Let Me Get This Straight Trump Is An Innocent Man | 06/07/24 |
Learning from Kipling “You’re a Better Man than I Am, Gunga Din!” | 06/05/24 |
A Poem for Ti Ti Who is Now Twenty | 06/02/24 |
What’s It All About, Alfie According to Longfellow | 05/31/24 |
We Still Aren’t Independent of England Many Still Have the Same Mindset | 05/29/24 |
What Is Trump Doing on Memorial Day? Either Memorial Day | 05/27/24 |
Repeating the Past Make Sure You Understand the Past | 05/24/24 |
What a Difference a Generation Makes Greatness Isn’t Always Genetic | 05/22/24 |
My Grandmother’s Words Haunt and Inspire Me | 05/20/24 |
I Wonder Whether the Elk Did the Dance He Acted Like It | 05/17/24 |
Ginger and I Have Done the Dance Each of Us Twice | 05/15/24 |
Every Day is Like Survival You're My Lover Not My Rival | 05/13/24 |
How Much Land Does a Man Need? An Edited Tolstoy | 05/10/24 |
What’s with Bohemian Rhapsody And Our Takeaway | 05/08/24 |
A Very Stable Genius Is Loose and Running Around | 05/06/24 |
The Flying Dutchman Then and Now | 05/03/24 |
Trump’s Roosting Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost | 05/01/24 |
Rudy, Be Careful with Your Rants You Should Have Watched Men in Black | 04/29/24 |
Still I Rise Despite Racism | 04/26/24 |
Field of Dreams A Haunting Return | 04/24/24 |
Lincoln and His Better Angels Or Trump and His Worst Demons | 04/22/24 |
Immortal Beloved Beethoven’s, Shakespeare’s, and Mine | 04/19/24 |
Total Eclipse of the Heart Revisited | 04/17/24 |
My Solution to the Abortion Issue Form Follows Function | 04/15/24 |
What Did Rowe Learn from Beethoven? Erasing | 04/12/24 |
Repeating Bad History Creates Newer Bad History | 04/10/24 |
What I Discovered When I Wasn’t Looking | 04/08/24 |
Bush’s Bus Ride Leadership or Roadkills | 04/05/24 |
Ginger Trains Her Owner And I’m Obedient | 04/03/24 |
April Fool’s Day For the Donald | 04/01/24 |
A Whiter Shade of Pale What’s It All About, Alfie? | 03/29/24 |
“We Are Made of Star-Stuff,” But We Don’t Realize It. | 03/27/24 |
The Real Mona Lisa Or the Fake Ones | 03/25/24 |
Projection, Projection, Projection Trump’s Fatal Flaw | 03/22/24 |
Standing on the Hill Our Human Destiny | 03/20/24 |
Who Will Bring Trump to Justice Not the Courts | 03/18/24 |
Träumerei Then and Now | 03/15/24 |
Resurrecting the Quest of Men in Black Before the Election | 03/13/24 |
Trump Has Some Issues with Taylor Swift Beyond His Legal Woes and Coming Up with a Half Billion Dollars | 03/11/24 |
I Have Issues with Justice Thomas The Holier Than Thou Mindset | 03/08/24 |
It’s Better to Burn Out Than to Fade Away | 03/06/24 |
Ginger’s New Fashion Statement Keeping Her Happy and Healthy | 03/04/24 |
Music and Me The Cost of Love Then and Now | 03/01/24 |
And a Sickness Too Took Root Donald the Dumb Has Rooted | 02/28/24 |
Odysseus’ Long, Long Journey Both Odysseus and Odie | 02/26/24 |
The Paradox About Ring Kissing Why the Kiss? | 02/23/24 |
Another Bedtime Story for Trump About Aaron and the Donald | 02/21/24 |
Bo Bo Gyi And His Advice to His Granddaughter | 02/19/24 |
Kicking the Can Down the Road, Again 50th Mass Shootings in America This Year | 02/16/24 |
St. Valentine’s Day The Real St. Valentine’s Day | 02/14/24 |
If I Were in Charge of Education This is What I Would Mandate | 02/12/24 |
Citizen Kane and Citizen Trump Live in Xanadu | 02/09/24 |
The Box or Jar of Pandora Another Parable | 02/07/24 |
The Two Faces of Prometheus Which Face Will You Pick? | 02/05/24 |
Trump Wasn’t the First Trump There Have Been Others | 02/02/24 |
The Past is a Precursor To the Future | 01/31/24 |
The Achilles’ Heel Of the Republicans | 01/29/24 |
My Hill of Beans Paradox Created by the James Webb Space Telescope | 01/26/24 |
My Birthday And the Age of Aquarius | 01/24/24 |
My Third Dance with Death And Its Effect | 01/22/24 |
Snow and Fatty Are Following in Ti Ti’s Footsteps | 01/19/24 |
Bring Dead Molecules Back to Life On the Planet Jupiter | 01/17/24 |
Donald the Dumb Believes Some Really Dumb Things | 01/15/24 |
First, There was Jacques Cousteau Now, There is Ti Ti | 01/12/24 |
Artificial Intelligence Past, Present, and Future | 01/10/24 |
Infallibility of Trump And the Divine Right of Kings | 01/08/24 |
It Was To Be a Short Phone Call But It Wasn’t | 01/05/24 |
This Is a True Story... About Guts | 01/03/24 |
Starting a New Year With a New Battery and Insight | 01/01/24 |
2023
What’s It All About... The Paradox of Life | 12/29/23 |
I’m Going to be an Astrophysicist... In My Next Life. | 12/27/23 |
Unexpected Events Can Create Opportunities for Greatness | 12/25/23 |
Do You Hear the People Sing... Who Will Not Be Slaves Again! | 12/22/23 |
Why Write? Answers from Vonnegut and Faulkner | 12/20/23 |
Solar Flares and CMEs Impending Impact | 12/18/23 |
PaPa Al’s Reply To Ti Ti’s Posting, I Love Education | 12/15/23 |
The Paradox of Learning It Is an Either/Or Knowledge Base | 12/13/23 |
Yin-Yang Beyond My Personal World What About Your World? | 12/11/23 |
My Yin Yang World Dreams vs. Reality | 12/08/23 |
I Have a Solution For the Stupid TV Medicare Announcements | 12/06/23 |
The Orange Jesus... Is from a Planet in the Andromeda Galaxy | 12/04/23 |
Ginger’s Gift to Dr. Derrè Ginger Stated, “Dr. Derrè’s My Vet” | 12/01/23 |
What Would T.E. Lawrence Do In Gaza and Israel? | 11/29/23 |
Mary Had Little Lamb And PaPa Al Has a Big Irish Setter | 11/27/23 |
The Evolution of Thanksgiving A Long and Winding Road | 11/24/23 |
A Future Thanksgiving Far, Far Away | 11/22/23 |
Reaching Out to Others for Help It Is Giving that We Get | 11/20/23 |
The Royal We Revisited | 11/17/23 |
Bananas Flambé for GiGi An Extraordinary Woman | 11/15/23 |
Let Me Get This Straight “If you go after me, I’m coming after you.” | 11/13/23 |
On the Road Again Ginger, the Pooh Dog, and Me | 11/10/23 |
If I Were Q I’d Tell the Whole Story of the Téméraire | 11/08/23 |
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night A Lesson Taught by Dylan Thomas | 11/06/23 |
The Reason for Being An Either/Or Situation | 11/03/23 |
The Ripple Effect An Either/Or Issue | 11/01/23 |
Ginger’s 7th Birthday What’s Life All About, Alfie? | 10/30/23 |
Sagan’s Golden Records On the Horns of a Dilemma | 10/27/23 |
Batter Up Next Batter | 10/25/23 |
Flipper... Let the Show Begin | 10/23/23 |
Breath of Fresh Air From My Web Administrator | 10/20/23 |
Me and My Echocardiogram Beyond a Diagnosis | 10/18/23 |
Dealing with the New Normal Again and Again | 10/13/23 |
Lawrence of Arabia... A Mentor of Mine | 10/11/23 |
Let’s Do the Math It is an Either/Or Choice | 10/09/23 |
Kevin Needs Therapy And a Newer Gaming Video | 10/06/23 |
Ginger’s Check-Up Again, at Purdue Veterinary Hospital | 10/04/23 |
Ti Ti, the Artist The Georgia O’Keeffe of Myanmar | 10/02/23 |
Casablanca... Then and Now | 09/29/23 |
The Evolution of Humans To the Present Day | 09/27/23 |
Ancient Greeks and the Fear Factor The Truth about the Fear Factor | 09/25/23 |
My Second Shot Or the First Insurrection | 09/22/23 |
My World of Xanadu Another Personal Parallel Essay | 09/20/23 |
Ti Ti’s Surprising Email To Her Grandfather | 09/18/23 |
Tyson’s Two Thoughts Regarding AI and a Ticking Clock | 09/15/23 |
Dealing with Artificial Intelligence Seems a Bit Premature | 09/13/23 |
Creating My Alive Life Gone Will Be the Days of Being Dead Tired | 09/11/23 |
The Importance of Happenstance For Heavenly Clauses | 09/08/23 |
Trump Is Better Than Jesus So He Says | 09/06/23 |
Jumping Hoops for a Prescription Raises Ethical Issues at Various Levels | 09/04/23 |
Another Dance for Ginger Learn and Live in the Moment | 09/01/23 |
Before Burning Books... We Need to Read Them | 08/30/23 |
The Source of Trump’s Mug Shot It’s Naissance was Wagner | 08/28/23 |
Ginger’s Gifts From Michelle | 08/25/23 |
Michelle The Sculptor and Writer | 08/23/23 |
Holding Hands with Neal Katyal What My Teacher Taught Me | 08/21/23 |
Hollow Men Two Troubled Souls | 08/18/23 |
Thomas and Trump The Teacher and Student | 08/16/23 |
St. Francis Expanded My Learning At Many Levels | 08/14/23 |
Trump Won’t Like Judge Chutkan It Isn’t Wise for Trump To Threaten Her. | 08/11/23 |
Haunting Photos Then and Now | 08/09/23 |
Grasp This Truism From St. Francis and Buddha | 08/07/23 |
What I Learned In My Twilight Years Giotto Revisited | 08/04/23 |
The Parable of the Crow, Mouse, Gazelle, and Tortoise From the Fables of Kalīlah and Dimnah | 08/02/23 |
Pictures of One of My Cossettes A Ngal Lay | 07/31/23 |
What is My Reason for Being My Four Cosettes | 07/28/23 |
Mentors Change Society Another Suggestion for a mentor | 07/26/23 |
Oppie and Me The Similarities are Striking | 07/24/23 |
Looking for a Mentor? Try Jacques Portefaix or Marie-Jeane Valet | 07/21/23 |
The Synchronicity of My Mentors Bobby and Don Quixote | 07/19/23 |
The Clown Car Drivers Are Driving Scared | 06/30/23 |
Stonhenge and Manhattanhenge What's it all about, Alfie? | 06/28/23 |
The Tree in the Silo A Metaphor of Me | 06/23/23 |
Another Rogerian Psychotherapy Session On Father's Day | 06/21/23 |
What Some Old White Guy Thinks And Juneteenth | 06/19/23 |
Doublethink What Trump Learned from Animal Farm and 1984 | 06/07/23 |
Damocles Then and Now The Parallels are Striking | 06/05/23 |
Pick Mentors Carefully The Lady and Bobby | 06/02/23 |
Be a Sherpa Whether or Not You are a Beekeeper or Nepalese | 05/31/23 |
Doubting Thomas Teaching Gilgamesh to Thomas | 04/19/23 |
The Times They Are A-Changin’ Again The Tennessee Three | 04/17/23 |
Ginger’s Tribute to Her Vet “Thanks, But Can You Get Me Bigger Treats?” | 04/12/23 |
A Golden Opportunity Explaining Ti Ti to her Class | 04/10/23 |
A Suggestion of a Mentor A Sequel to Picking a Mentor Article | 04/07/23 |
Picking Mentors Choose Wisely | 04/05/23 |
Run That Past Me Again. It Doesn’t Make Sense. | 03/31/23 |
Witch Hunts Question: Who Is the Witch? | 03/29/23 |
The Effects of the Sun’s Coronal Hole Be Prepared | 03/27/23 |
Tucker’s Talk Is Double-Talk | 03/24/23 |
Rewriting the Past By Editing or Deleting It | 03/22/23 |
Returning To the Past: Example One | 03/20/23 |
We Are All Greeks Shelley, Vangelis, and Hawking | 03/17/23 |
Ginger and Poisoning A Sequel | 03/15/23 |
Ginger and I Our Trip Down the Yellow Brick Road | 03/13/23 |
So, Let Me Get This Straight...the Sequel What’s the Gospel Truth? | 03/10/23 |
NASA Discovered Six Massive Galaxies So What? | 03/08/23 |
So Let Me Get This Straight Let’s Wake Up | 03/06/23 |
Music Explains Me Music Drives Me | 03/03/23 |
Flash: Trump is in Kyiv To Meet with Zelensky | 03/01/23 |
Happy Birthday Moh Moh And Many More | 02/27/23 |
First, It Was the Chinese Spy Balloon This Time What Is It? | 02/24/23 |
Jabbering Parrots What We Can Learn from Churchill and Buffett | 02/22/23 |
Inherit the Wind And You Will Be Gone with the Wind | 02/20/23 |
Threading the Needle To Address Racism | 02/17/23 |
TV Commercials Five Pros and One Con | 02/15/23 |
Learning from Lao Tzu To Live Life Daringly | 02/13/23 |
Learning from Two Astrophysicists About this World | 02/10/23 |
The Chinese Magic Dragon Went Puff | 02/08/23 |
Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi Addressing Our Nation’s Problems | 02/06/23 |
Let’s Get Honest About White Camelot | 02/03/23 |
Education is a Double-Edged Sword How To Address Learning | 02/01/23 |
Aggressive Chimpanzees Outside of Africa | 01/30/23 |
We are Good and Bad at the Same Time The Goodness Paradox | 01/27/23 |
The Importance of Footprints But the Question is When | 01/25/23 |
The Evolution of Aldie According to a 21st Century Darwinian Theory | 01/23/23 |
What’s It All About Alfie? From an Eighty-Year Old Alfie | 01/20/23 |
Where Did GADS Really Go To College? It Wasn’t Baruch College | 01/18/23 |
My Quest for Eldorado In Three Parts | 01/16/23 |
What Causes Stupidity? Lying or Lack of Knowledge | 01/13/23 |
Than Myanmar’s van Gogh | 01/11/23 |
Grasping Reality I Can’t Explain It | 01/09/23 |
Legends Often Morph into Facts Gilgamesh and Mulan | 01/06/23 |
Virgil, the Tour Guide into Hell The Divine Comedy 101 | 01/04/23 |
The Benefit of Pain Take Advantage of It | 01/02/23 |
2022
What Drove My Father and Drives Me? Pain | 12/30/22 |
The Value of Mentors It’s About How We Play Are Cards | 12/28/22 |
It’s All About We An Important Lesson of Life | 12/26/22 |
Be Careful Whom You Choose as a Mentor Hatanaka or Scrooge | 12/23/22 |
“Only This and Nothing More” Quote the Raven | 12/21/22 |
I Wish that I Had Asked My Father About WWII | 12/19/22 |
Repeating the Past...Part II Tokyo Rose | 12/16/22 |
Repeating the Past It’s Just Fake News | 12/14/22 |
I Could Hear the Silence While I Raged | 12/12/22 |
Problems are Assets Seize the Problems | 12/09/22 |
The Reckoning Day Of the Invincibles | 12/07/22 |
A Soccer and Hockey Game What’s the Take Away? | 12/05/22 |
My Way Morphing to My Mentoring | 12/02/22 |
A Picture is Worth a Billion Words Or Pick Your Mentors Wisely | 11/30/22 |
If You Are Looking for a Mentor... I Have a Suggestion | 11/28/22 |
My Twilight Hauntings... About Immortality | 11/25/22 |
What World Are We Living In? The Denier’s World | 11/23/22 |
My Quest to Understand Why? Why Everything | 11/21/22 |
A Swan Song Then and Now | 11/18/22 |
Finger Pointing It’s Their Fault.... | 11/16/22 |
Conspiracy Theory Nonsense... Except For One | 11/14/22 |
The Chinese Used Knife Money But Why? | 11/11/22 |
As Shelley Wrote, “We Are All Greeks” Some Don’t Get It | 11/09/22 |
Camelot Revisited By Looking Again at the Past | 11/07/22 |
A Message from Missoula And the Dangling Dog | 11/04/22 |
Ginger is Now Six As We Do the Dance | 10/28/22 |
Transparency Revisited While Down on the Farm | 10/21/22 |
Growing Up Without Transparency And Finally Discovering It | 10/14/22 |
Facing Storms of Life Another Either/Or Situation | 10/07/22 |
Trying Times Testing Souls | 09/23/22 |
Picking Mentors It Will Change Your Life | 09/09/22 |
A Bedside Story for Donald It Begins, “Once Upon a Time….” | 08/29/22 |
A Tribute to a Thinker My Thinker Shawn | 08/26/22 |
Seeing Things More Clearly On My Yellow Brick Road | 08/24/22 |
A King Cobra Pitted Against a Python A Teaching Moment | 08/22/22 |
Narcissus of the Past And Narcissus of the Present | 08/19/22 |
Hoosier’s Neighbor? The Ultimate Question | 08/17/22 |
The Insanity of Hubris Based on a Trilogy of Mistaken Assumptions | 08/15/22 |
Trilogy of Diseases How Are You Going to Address the Trilogy? | 08/12/22 |
An Important Teaching Moment Joe and I Are Twins | 08/10/22 |
Where Are We in the Global Scheme of Things? A Kierkegaardian Question | 08/8/22 |
I Was Under the Knife For Nearly Five Minutes | 08/5/22 |
A Funny Thing Happened to Me in Surgery I Talked About What Rattles Me | 08/3/22 |
“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men… Often Go Awry.” | 08/1/22 |
John Gotti Alias Teflon Don and Dapper Don | 07/29/22 |
One of My Mantras Gals Pick Your Mentors Carefully | 07/27/22 |
A Lesson About Life… Don’t Fear Death… | 07/24/22 |
Happy Birthday Snow You Are 13 | 07/22/22 |
My Place in the Universe I Don’t Want to be Lost in Space | 07/15/22 |
Learn from William Wallace and Gilgamesh As We Journey Down Our Yellow Brick Roads | 07/13/22 |
Learning from the Japanese About What We Don’t Know | 07/11/22 |
Another Mantra of Mine Be a Storyteller | 07/8/22 |
Alan Turing Thinking Outside the Box | 07/6/22 |
The 4th of July Which is Unlike Most | 07/4/22 |
Bridge On/Over the River Kwai Then and Now | 07/1/22 |
Doing the Dance on Steroids And Promises to Keep | 06/29/22 |
A Haunting Kierkegaardian Question Either/Or | 06/27/22 |
Trouble in River City Come Hell or High Water | 06/24/22 |
Lionel, Amazon’s Guardian Angel Fended Off UPS | 06/22/22 |
Juneteenth A Day to Remember | 06/20/22 |
Miah Is the 21st Century Eppie A Hand Is Put Into Theirs…. | 06/17/22 |
There is a Teapot in Orbit Around the Sun… It Was Mentioned in Ancient Texts | 06/15/22 |
When Storms Swirl Listen To the Bard of Avon | 06/13/22 |
The Trinity of Evil Monkeys See as Monkeys Do | 06/10/22 |
Teaching Justice Alito Latin, History, and Common Sense Past Decisions Aren’t Necessarily Correct | 06/6/22 |
My Magnificent Obsession Along With Benefits | 06/3/22 |
Happy Birthday, Ti Ti She Is No Longer a Young Lady | 06/1/22 |
Which Memorial Day Should Be Observed? It Is an Either/Or Question. | 05/30/22 |
If You Fly High Like Icarus You Will Crash and Burn | 05/27/22 |
What Hath God Wrought Either/Or | 05/25/22 |
I Have an Idea Have Bounty Hunters | 05/23/22 |
Chatting with a Robin And the Reincarnation of Bo Bo Gyi | 05/20/22 |
Lets Get Honest In the Real World | 05/18/22 |
Our Reason for Being Sweeping Down the Mightiest Walls | 05/16/22 |
“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men….” Reset and Carry On | 05/13/22 |
The Battle of the Alamo… Past, Present, and Future | 05/11/22 |
I Love Teaching… Here in Myanmar or Anywhere | 05/09/22 |
Where Are Simon and Garfunkel… When We Need Them? | 05/06/22 |
Ti Ti, the Driven An Exceptional Young Lady | 05/04/22 |
My Commencement Address... To the World | 05/02/22 |
Grasping Reality While My Clock Is Ticking | 04/29/22 |
A Backed-Up Sewer Created a Parable | 04/27/22 |
We Are All Greeks Some To a Much Lesser Extent | 04/25/22 |
Diversity Visas What’s That All About, Alfie? | 04/22/22 |
Acclimating to the New World In Mt. Lebanon, Taunggyi, and Crown Point | 04/20/22 |
The Oligarch Above All Oligarchs Czar Putin | 04/18/22 |
I’m An American Oligarch…. Of Sorts | 04/15/22 |
Building Castles in the Sky Pushing the Limits of Possibility | 04/13/22 |
Who Decides for Women? Either Men or Women | 04/11/22 |
Heaven and Hell What’s It All About, Alfie | 04/08/22 |
Ti Ti’s Yogi-ism “It’s Like Déjà Vu All Over Again.” | 04/06/22 |
I Have Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 04/04/22 |
When Choosing Mentors… Think | 04/01/22 |
Seeing the Future At Least Three Times | 03/30/22 |
My Family in Myanmar: A Sequel to What’s It All About | 03/28/22 |
Where Do We Draw the Line in the Sand? It Depends | 03/25/22 |
The Problem with Yes-Men Who Say Yes All the Time | 03/23/22 |
Ginger and I What’s It All About and Why? | 03/21/22 |
Children and War Ukraine and Myanmar | 03/18/22 |
Ti Ti, the Teacher Of Her Classmates and Me | 03/16/22 |
Two Views of the Ides of March One for Caesar and One for My Family | 03/14/22 |
What We Can Learn from Yapping Dogs And Yapping Leaders | 03/11/22 |
The Helter-Skelter Mindset Locally and Globally | 03/09/22 |
My Great-Granddaughter A Younger Version of My Granddaughters | 03/07/22 |
Two Military Leaders Parker and Lee | 03/04/22 |
A Tale of Two Leaders: Address Their Rivals | 03/02/22 |
Unintended Consequences From Easter Island | 02/28/22 |
If Everything Around You Seems Dark… Look Again. You May Be the Light. | 02/25/22 |
Putin’s Legacy Gilgamesh’s Lesson | 02/23/22 |
History Is Repetitious Then and Now | 02/21/22 |
“The Life and Times of Al Capone…Then and Now.” I’ll Never Pass Up a Teaching Moment. | 02/18/22 |
My Personality Quirks… I Have Several | 02/16/22 |
My Latest Himalayan Salt Lamp A Parable for Today | 02/14/22 |
The Tale of My Foot Years Ago and Today | 02/11/22 |
What a Difference a Half-Century Makes If We See It | 02/09/22 |
More Parallels Between Myanmar and America Aung San and Bobby Kennedy | 02/07/22 |
Parallels Between Myanmar and America Even Though They Are On the Other Side of the World | 02/04/22 |
My Dream of Diversity In the Footsteps of Bobby | 02/02/22 |
Diversity Is the Answer But What Is the Question? | 01/31/22 |
Kiev Then and Now | 01/28/22 |
When I Become a Billionaire… A Jaguar SUV Will Be in My Garage | 01/26/22 |
Two Countries Living in One World | 01/24/22 |
A Sequel to My Dreamland Journey… To the Brighter Side of Life | 01/21/22 |
My Dreamland During My Operation | 01/19/22 |
Coming to America A Dream of Many | 01/17/22 |
Mary Tofts Then and Now | 01/14/22 |
“Better To Reign in Hell… Than Serve in heaven.” | 01/12/22 |
A Cancer, Too, Took Root But the Backstory Is More Important | 01/10/22 |
Galileo Found Four Moons Avoid Cancer | 01/07/22 |
Beware of the Mongolian Death Worm In Both Mongolia and America | 01/05/22 |
Find a Mentor… Then Emulate That Person | 01/03/22 |
2021
A Reason for Being… The Most Important Reason for My Being | 12/31/21 |
Buffalo Soldiers Then and Now | 12/29/21 |
Young Frankenstein And Her Treatment Plan | 12/27/21 |
Christmas: Past, Present, and Future | 12/24/21 |
The Graduate… The Canine Version | 12/22/21 |
A Sickness Too Took Root Everywhere | 12/20/21 |
The Operation Was Successful But No Microchip Was Found | 12/17/21 |
Free To Be Me… Somewhat | 12/15/21 |
The Deep State Is Watching Me But Why? | 12/13/21 |
There Is More To Life… Than Paddling Around and Accomplishing Nothing | 12/10/21 |
Two Dreamers... Discuss the Way the World Should Be | 12/08/21 |
Moh Moh’s Roles in Our Family: My Daughter and My Mother | 12/06/21 |
I Love My Family With Some Caveats | 12/03/21 |
Archimedes and the Syracusia It’s All About Dreaming | 12/01/21 |
Waking Up… To Getting Old | 11/29/21 |
“The Moving Finger Writes” Another Teaching Moment | 11/26/21 |
It All Started with Roger Williams Which Needs To Be Revisited | 11/24/21 |
Ginger and I In Our Recovery Modes | 11/22/21 |
I Never Miss a Teaching Moment But Who Benefits | 11/19/21 |
Protests at School Boards Then and Now | 11/17/21 |
My Extended Family You Can See Her Painting. | 11/15/21 |
I’m the Reincarnation of Bo Bo Gyi According to Fatty | 11/12/21 |
It Starts with Education… And Ends with Reform. | 11/10/21 |
What is Critical Race Theory? Two Options | 11/08/21 |
Ginger and the Mask and Shot Mandates A Canine Teaching Moment | 11/05/21 |
From a Ripple to a Raging Current Based Upon Reciprocity | 11/03/21 |
A New World Order The World from Campbell’s Perspective | 11/01/21 |
Happy Birthday, Ginger I Wish You Many More with Your Blue Dolphin | 10/29/21 |
A New Ripple And a Purposeful Life | 10/27/21 |
Paying Homage… To Me | 10/25/21 |
The Duality of Changing Times Change, and We Change | 10/22/21 |
Having a Purposeful Life Another Sequel About Dreaming | 10/20/21 |
Societal Dreaming Delayed but Not Dashed | 10/18/21 |
Miss Independent Bo Bo Gyi’s Granddaughter | 10/15/21 |
A Dream Delayed Or a Dream Dashed | 10/13/21 |
We Need to Learn from History… Not Rewrite It. | 10/11/21 |
My Takeaway From the Great Chicago Fire | 10/08/21 |
What Ginger’s Dances Taught Me Despite My Dances | 10/06/21 |
Ti Ti and Education Why Is Education Critical? | 10/04/21 |
What’s All This About Women? “The Times They Are A-Changin’ Ever So Slowly” | 10/01/21 |
I Successfully Survived an Electromyography At Least for the Time Being | 09/29/21 |
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary…. “Ride, Boldly Ride” | 09/27/21 |
Parallels with Ti Ti A Part of Which Are Genetic | 09/24/21 |
Quoth the Raven My Medical Diagnosis | 09/22/21 |
A Ngal Lay Sent Me Pictures and a Video About Our Time Together | 09/20/21 |
Revisiting Gilgamesh A Teaching Moment | 09/17/21 |
My Great-Granddaughter… A Ngal Lay | 09/15/21 |
We Need to Learn from the Past Or We Will Repeat | 09/13/21 |
When I Become President of the World… Things Are Going to Change | 09/10/21 |
The Dual Negativisms… Of Racism and Sexism | 09/08/21 |
The Pros and Cons… Of Replicating Our Parents | 09/06/21 |
“I’m Doing the Dance” The Title of Ti Ti’s Poem | 09/03/21 |
Snow’s Poem About Her New Normal | 09/01/21 |
Realizing the New Normal What’s All About, Alfie? | 08/30/21 |
What Once Was But Isn’t Now In Camelot | 08/27/21 |
There Is a Message in the Mask Listen To the Medical Professionals or Get Sick | 08/25/21 |
The Eternal Question The Harvest or the Seeds | 08/23/21 |
Me and My Pilgrimages Due To Racism | 08/20/21 |
What Can We Learn from Art? The Answer Is…. | 08/18/21 |
My Hauntings of Polio Past and Present | 08/16/21 |
Trump Is Returning to the White House Today, August 13, 2021 | 08/13/21 |
Gandhi’s Tribute to Moh Moh For Her Indomitable Will | 08/11/21 |
Learning from Dancing Starlings… A Great Learning Moment for Us | 08/09/21 |
It Is Time To Write Poetry Another Teaching Event | 08/06/21 |
It’s Like Déjà Vu All Over Again For Ginger and Me | 08/04/21 |
Sir Gawain, the Knight Doing What a Knight Does | 08/01/21 |
What To Do When Your World Is Out of Control What I Learned from My Family | 07/30/21 |
Ginger Doing the Dance And An Important Takeaway | 07/28/21 |
A Follow-Up to Snow’s Email Another Teaching Moment | 07/26/21 |
We Are Cave Men But What Is Our Purpose in Life? | 07/23/21 |
Happy Birthday, Snow Time To Remember | 07/21/21 |
Disinformation Is Deadly So, Why Lie to America? | 07/19/21 |
How To Achieve Being Venerated, Wise, and Great In Two Steps | 07/16/21 |
A Ngal Lay My Great-Granddaughter | 07/14/21 |
A Story of Three Statues Lee, Jackson, Trump | 07/12/21 |
Poets Both Past and Present Amanda Gorman and Sarah Kay | 07/09/21 |
Resurrection I’m Alive Along with My Computer, and Ginger | 07/07/21 |
Patriots Past and Present in America On the 4th of July | 07/05/21 |
I Created an Artistic Masterpiece… For Ginger | 07/02/21 |
Critical Race Theory A 21st Century Scopes Monkey Trial | 06/30/21 |
Write On Advice from PaPa Al, aka Grandpa | 06/28/21 |
Scarface PaPa Al Isn’t My Nickname | 06/25/21 |
If They See the Goblin… They Might Also See Planet X. | 06/23/21 |
More Apologies Expressed To My Physicians | 06/21/21 |
Let Me Ponder This for a Moment Wake Up, America | 06/18/21 |
Trump In 3-D Dumb, Delusional, and Despicable | 06/16/21 |
What the Oldest Stars Taught Me… About Life | 06/14/21 |
One More Comment For Ti Ti As She Journeys Down Her Yellow Brick Road | 06/11/21 |
The Little One, A Part of My Family | 06/09/21 |
Than, a Great Artist The Art of Playing the Hand Dealt You | 06/07/21 |
Set Set Yo And a Little Child | 06/04/21 |
Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen Happy Birthday | 06/02/21 |
Memorial Day 2021 It Is in Giving that We Get | 05/31/21 |
One Year Hence Reincarnation of Gawain and the Fox | 05/28/21 |
Fake News or Real News I Can Imagine the Debate in Congress | 05/26/21 |
McCarthy’s Talk Which Is Doublespeak | 05/24/21 |
Rewriting History While You Were There | 05/21/21 |
"History Is Written By Victors…" Sometimes | 05/19/21 |
Bamboo vs. Papyrus Fake News vs. Truth | 05/17/21 |
Reincarnation of Ra-Ra… Reincarnation of Ra-Ra… | 05/14/21 |
Queen Elizabeth and King Donald Royal Indignity | 05/12/21 |
Learn and Become a Storyteller All You Need To Do Is To Travel | 05/10/21 |
The History of Myanmar… Is Being Written Now | 05/07/21 |
Trinity of Guts Or Cult of Chickens | 05/05/21 |
Three Take-Aways From Denzel Washington’s Commencement Address | 05/03/21 |
The Haunting Question Which Sir Launfal Are You? | 04/30/21 |
He Is My Brother On This Pale Blue Dot | 04/28/21 |
He Ain’t Heavy He Is My Brother | 04/26/21 |
Problems Offer a Choice Either a Cul-de-sac or a Challenge | 04/23/21 |
A Religious Disconnect A Human Disconnect | 04/21/21 |
A Funny Thing Happened While on Zoom My Fourth La Danse Macabre | 04/19/21 |
Learning from Collecting Written by a Collector of Treasures | 04/16/21 |
The War of Northern Aggression Isn’t Over Yet | 04/14/21 |
Are You Looking for a Mentor? This is My Advice | 04/12/21 |
A Survivor’s Guide For Living in a Post-Trumpian World | 04/09/21 |
My Quest to Find Meaning Life My Search for My Holy Grail | 04/07/21 |
As Kierkegaard Said It Is Either/Or | 04/05/21 |
A Disadvantage of Being a WASPWe All Need to Learn | 04/02/21 |
A Trilogy of Choices Either Rewriting History, Editing History, or Reliving History | 03/31/21 |
Getting on the Same PageIn My Class and Our World | 03/29/21 |
My Love of Teaching This Is An Example | 03/26/21 |
I Told You SoPride Goeth Before Destruction | 03/24/21 |
I Live in Two WorldsI Have Benefited from One World | 03/22/21 |
What’s It All About Aldie My Haunting Question | 03/19/21 |
Meghan, Harry, and ArchieAddress Royal Racism | 03/17/21 |
Teaching Moments TodayAnd Teaching Moments for the Future | 03/15/21 |
What Demosthenes, Bobby Kennedy, and Gilgamesh… Could Teach Mumbling Mitch | 03/12/21 |
It’s All About Being RememberedChoose Wisely | 03/10/21 |
We Over Me… Or Me Over We | 03/08/21 |
Getting My Second COVID Shot… And Immortality | 03/05/21 |
A Tale of Two Countries And a Present-Day Theme and Variation of Life | 03/03/21 |
What Makes Me Tick and Teach? No Pain, No Gain | 03/01/21 |
We Live in Two Different WorldsChoose Wisely Your World | 02/05/21 |
The Pandas and My PoohAnd Other Followers of Gilgamesh | 02/03/21 |
Who Is That Lady in Yellow?A 21st Century Eppie | 02/01/21 |
Learning Is Three-Dimensional… But It Is Discovered On the Road | 01/29/21 |
Stopping in the WoodsWhile Dreaming Dreams | 01/27/21 |
Where’s the Proof?The New Me | 01/25/21 |
Finding ImmortalityGilgamesh and Ti Ti | 01/22/21 |
There are Facts…And There are Fake Facts. | 01/20/21 |
The Gilgamesh EpicThen and Now | 01/18/21 |
The Answer to the Question…What’s It All About, Alfie? | 01/15/21 |
Purposeful LivesOn Steroids | 01/13/21 |
Donald, It Was a Bridge Too FarAnd You Lost, Again. | 01/11/21 |
Seeing Ourselves as Others See UsIn This Case, Ti Ti Seeing Herself | 01/08/21 |
A Preamble to Our Present PresidentHis Mantra: It is All About Me, and I’m in Control | 01/06/21 |
An Old White Guy Explains RacismAnother Teaching Moment | 01/04/21 |
A Teaching MomentWith Ti Ti | 01/01/21 |
2020
Today is Thanksgiving Day… Near Inle Lake | 12/30/20 |
Kayla, Bananas Flambé and Party Time for Ginger A Happy Day for Ginger | 12/28/20 |
A Christmas Carol in 2020…It Is in Giving that We Get | 12/25/20 |
Where Is a Martin Niemöller…When We Need an Honest Person? | 12/23/20 |
A Secret About LifeHow To Be Successful | 12/21/20 |
When Opportunity KnocksCarpe Diem | 12/18/20 |
Achilles’ HeelThen and Now | 12/16/20 |
Your Meaning of Being…What Is It? | 12/14/20 |
Branding in the Waning DaysSome Branding Ideas | 12/11/20 |
Either Death Bed ConfessionsOr Death Bed Accusations | 12/09/20 |
This Is a Teaching MomentAbout America | 12/07/20 |
Hitler’s Bunker MentalityThen and Now | 12/04/20 |
Remembering the PastSpring Follows Winter | 12/02/20 |
Blue House Remodeled…With Drive and Determination | 11/30/20 |
1984 RevisitedAnd Last Black Friday | 11/27/20 |
Frank Goes an Extra Mile…For Ginger and Me | 11/25/20 |
Bobby Burns’ Message…For Ti Ti | 11/23/20 |
A Modafinil Moment…Revisited | 11/20/20 |
Problems Are Catalysts for ChangeBut It Is Up to You | 11/18/20 |
It’s Either/OrTrump Needs to Read Søren Kierkegaard | 11/16/20 |
I Love MeSaid the Narcissistic Joker | 11/13/20 |
The Cheshire Cat Has Divided Our NationAnd Many Kowtow to the Cheshire Cat | 11/11/20 |
Emails Past and PresentA Reflection Upon Our World | 11/09/20 |
Modafinil and Lao TzuBenefit My Pooh Dog | 11/06/20 |
Discerning the TruthA Means to Live Life | 11/04/20 |
It Was Four Years AgoAnd What a Difference Four Years Makes | 11/02/20 |
Ginger’s Birthday BashI Hope That She Has Many More | 10/30/20 |
We Are Both Dancers…Ginger and I | 10/28/20 |
The Importance of the Sound of Music…According to Nietzsche and Me | 10/26/20 |
On Deciphering the Truth…By Thinking | 10/23/20 |
The Giving and GettingBoth Parties Benefit | 10/21/20 |
Ti Ti Teaches a Myanmar MythTo Her Sister | 10/19/20 |
Hear Ye, Hear Ye…Ti Ti Is Starting College Today! | 10/16/20 |
Bunker Time A Prediction | 10/14/20 |
Damned If He Does, and Damned If He Doesn’t. On Being on the Horns of a Dilemma | 10/12/20 |
The Devil Made Me Do It. A Presidential Duet | 10/09/20 |
Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity | 10/07/20 |
My Two Worlds…Affect My Life | 10/05/20 |
Bad KarmaSticks to People | 10/02/20 |
This is Success in the MakingYou Heard It First from PaPa Al | 09/30/20 |
Jainism or the JusticeThe Place of Women in the World | 09/28/20 |
This Is an AddendumTi Ti, the Bridge Builder | 09/25/20 |
From Then to NowWhat a Difference Seven Years Has Made | 09/23/20 |
Importance of Human SacrificePast and Present | 09/21/20 |
Dealing with RealityIn the Human and Canine World | 09/18/20 |
Masks Matter…To Some | 09/16/20 |
Two PoemsBy Two LadiesWe found the lost video in cyberspace. | 09/14/20 |
A Present Day Parable for AmericaIt Is All About Sharing | 09/11/20 |
The Chicken Has Come Home to RoostWith a Bone Spur | 09/09/20 |
I Live in Two Worlds:One in the States and One in Myanmar | 09/07/20 |
Coming Home to RoostKierkegaard, Mt. Lebanon, Dancing, and My Family | 09/04/20 |
The Story of Tom and JerryWhat’s in a Name? | 09/02/20 |
A Brief History of TimeOf Ginger II and Me | 08/31/20 |
Joe and I Are TwinsWith Similar Interests | 08/28/20 |
Teaching the ChildrenIt is Your Legacy | 08/26/20 |
My Time for Doting…“My Granddaughter, Ti Ti, is the Greatest….” | 08/23/20 |
There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming | 08/07/20 |
Focusing My Stream of ConsciousnessBy Watching a Movie | 08/05/20 |
Let Me Get This Straight…About the Trump Flu | 08/03/20 |
A Teaching MomentWhile Walking Ginger | 07/31/20 |
Our Lord Overseer DoctorHas a Treatment Plan | 07/29/20 |
Egoism vs AltruismThere is a Better Way | 07/27/20 |
Ti TiMy Granddaughter and Poet Laurate | 07/24/20 |
Ginger and I Have Done the DanceAnd Are Alive | 07/22/20 |
"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.” | 07/20/20 |
I Am the Old ManGoing a Lone Highway | 07/17/20 |
The Brighter Side of My LifeDue to a Serendipitous Moment | 07/15/20 |
I’m Into Evil EyesThey Work Wonders | 07/13/20 |
A Tribute to FattyThe Girl with Those Eyes | 07/10/20 |
A Tribute to SnowMy Granddaughter in Myanmar | 07/08/20 |
A Tribute to Ti Ti The Young Lady | 07/06/20 |
I Dream Things That Never Were…And Say Way Not” | 07/03/20 |
“We See No White-Winged Angels Now…”But We See Little Children | 07/01/20 |
The Morphing Together of a Salt Lamp, Nero, and Cat StevensAn Insight for the Present Day | 06/29/20 |
The Good, the Bad, and the UglyWe Can Do Better | 06/26/20 |
Another of Santayana’s Teaching Moment Maybe We Will Learn This Time | 06/24/20 |
The Long-Neck WomenA Tradition in Myanmar | 06/22/20 |
A Teaching Moment…Part ThreeDonald the Dumb and Taking a Knee | 06/19/20 |
Living in Two Worlds…Part 2The Utopian Time | 06/17/20 |
Living in Two WorldsPart 1 | 06/15/20 |
Reflections on My Journey Down the Yellow Brick RoadOur Clocks Are Ticking | 06/12/20 |
You Do the MathI Love Teaching | 06/10/20 |
Donald the Dumb | 06/08/20 |
An Open-Letter to the WorldTimes They Are a-Changin' | 06/05/20 |
Ti Ti’s Spin on My WeltanschauungAnd Mine on Hers | 06/01/20 |
Living in the New NormalOur New World Order | 05/29/20 |
The Use of DrugsDonnie, Aldie, and Dr. Goodspeed | 05/27/20 |
A New Memorial DayDue to the COVID-19 | 05/25/20 |
The Thoughts of a DoctorA Teaching Opportunity | 05/22/20 |
It Is All About FamilyAnd Who Makes Up Our Family | 05/20/20 |
Our Reason for BeingDiscover It | 05/18/20 |
The Elephant RideOver the Alps of Myanmar | 05/11/20 |
Thinking Outside the Box of COVID-19And How You Will Benefit | 05/08/20 |
Ballooning Over BaganWith My Family | 05/06/20 |
It’s About the Way We Play Our HandsPlay Them Well | 05/04/20 |
The Man Without a MaskMini Me, the VP | 05/01/20 |
Ti Ti…The Amazing Young Lady | 04/29/20 |
Taung Kwe PagodaAn Out of the World Location | 04/27/20 |
The World is Dancing…Dancing with Death | 04/24/20 |
Why I Love Inle LakeTwo Reasons | 04/22/20 |
The Week That WasDance on with Determination | 04/20/20 |
“I Could Stand in the Middle of Fifth Avenue….”You Are Standing on Main Streets in America and Shooting | 04/13/20 |
The Brighter Side of LifeSomewhat Brighter | 04/10/20 |
Plague DoctorThen and Now | 04/06/20 |
Understanding Life as We Live ItSonata Pathétique | 04/03/20 |
An Open Letter to Dr. FauciOne American’s Thank You | 04/01/20 |
Another Miracle Drug…Maybe | 03/30/20 |
Another Teaching MomentAbout Times Past | 03/27/20 |
Regarding Dancing with CoronavirusCampbell’s Five Commandments | 03/25/20 |
Let’s Make a DealThanks to Modafinil | 03/23/20 |
The Cave vs Reality...That is the Question. | 03/20/20 |
A Teaching MomentFor Today and the Future | 03/18/20 |
Trump’s NemesisPresident Obama | 03/16/20 |
I Don’t Like FailingModus Operandi | 03/13/20 |
We Face Two PandemicsBoth Need Immediate Attention | 03/11/20 |
Think Before You ActThen Dare Greatly | 03/09/20 |
Circle of LifeDance On | 03/06/20 |
Holy TerrorMy Nom De Guerre | 03/04/20 |
“Let’s Get Going.”An Important Lesson of Life (FLASH: The lost video sound is back) |
03/02/20 |
How Playing Scrabble Changed My LifeWho Would Have Thought? | 02/28/20 |
Mr. ChipsAn Updated Version | 02/26/20 |
Moh Moh’s Interview of Me | 02/24/20 |
Angry Old MenThere is an Alternative | 02/21/20 |
What Drives MeBack Then and Now | 02/19/20 |
Than’s Interview of Me | 02/17/20 |
Snowaka Eppie | 02/14/20 |
Happy Birthday Fatty…An Incarnation of Eppie | 02/12/20 |
Than Tun OoArtist and Friend | 02/10/20 |
Seeing Yourself as Others See You…Which is More Clearly | 02/07/20 |
GingerPart 3 of a 4 Part Series | 02/05/20 |
KaylaDog Whisperer | 02/03/20 |
The Republican TrinitySessions, Bolton, and Roberts | 01/31/20 |
The Teak BridgePart 2 of a 4 Parts Series | 01/29/20 |
Reflections on My LifeIn My Twilight Years | 01/27/20 |
A Present-Day ParableWhich Can Be Understood | 01/24/20 |
My Home Looks Like the Uffizi GalleryPart 1 of 4 Parts | 01/22/20 |
It Is All About the Song…In the Days of Auld Lang Syne | 01/20/20 |
My Swan SongAnd My Family’s Swan Song | 01/17/20 |
I Found Another Incarnation of Bo Bo GyiWhile on Inle Lake | 01/15/20 |
My Three Granddaughters Sang Auld Lang Syne…Near Inle Lake in Myanmar | 01/13/20 |
My Masterpiece Dessert on New Year’s Eve… Banana’s Bo Bo Gyi | 01/10/20 |
2019
Thanksgiving Day In Britain, America, and Myanmar | 11/28/19 |
Trump and Western Union They Are Writing Their Legacies | 11/26/19 |
I Feel Like President Zelensky… However, I Am in America | 11/22/19 |
The Three Amigos... Are Increasing in Number. | 11/20/19 |
It’s About Women Women in India and the Woman in America | 11/18/19 |
I’m a Never Trumper My Takeaway from the First Public Hearing | 11/15/19 |
It’s Crunch Time But It’s Worth the Pressure | 11/13/19 |
Lessons of Life From Mitch Albom | 11/11/19 |
I Have An Idea for Congressional Republicans My Wonder Drug | 11/08/19 |
A Story About a Brain… Using Modafinil | 11/06/19 |
Who Was John Bolton’s Mentor? Edmund Burke | 11/04/19 |
Guy Fawkes Night “Remember, remember the fifth of November” | 11/01/19 |
Ranking Trump Which Isn’t Difficult | 10/30/19 |
Ginger Is Three What a Difference Three Years Make | 10/28/19 |
The Art of Taking Chances Or Pushing the Envelope | 10/25/19 |
Quid Pro QuoTeaching Foreign Languages | 10/23/19 |
Flying Faster…Than What Leonardo Could Imagine | 10/21/19 |
The Art of Being SuccessfulDream Big | 10/18/19 |
At Eternity’s Gate….It’s All About Legacy | 10/16/19 |
He Ain't Heavy, He's My BrotherWhose My Brother | 10/11/19 |
Ship of FoolsWoven by Trump is Growing | 10/09/19 |
A Tangled WebWoven by Trump is Growing | 10/07/19 |
I Need Some HelpAs in a Lot of Money | 10/04/19 |
Theseus and MeA Ball of String or Modafinil | 10/02/19 |
Icarus and TrumpOn Flying Too Low | 09/30/19 |
AutotelicVincent, Me, and Modafinil | 09/27/19 |
Loving VincentWhat’s It All About | 09/25/19 |
Vaping vs GunsThat is the Question | 09/23/19 |
PerspectiveWhat You See Is What You Get. | 09/20/19 |
The Reason for the Hole in the MountainThis Isn’t Fake News | 09/18/19 |
It All Boils Down to LegacyWhat Will You Leave This World? | 09/16/19 |
A Battle Between Orwell and Kipling…In 2019 | 09/13/19 |
PlagiarismSharpie-Gate | 09/11/19 |
I Get That Ibn Battuta Loved Travel… But Why? | 09/09/19 |
What Fascinates Me About GingerIn Our Time Together | 09/06/19 |
Modafinil—The Pill that Stopped My Meandering | 09/04/19 |
Troll’s TongueOr Troll’s Tail | 09/02/19 |
It’s All About Legacy“There Ain't No Way To Hide Your Lyin' Eyes” | 08/30/19 |
Travel Is Important…But to Extremes? | 08/28/19 |
My Yearning for Faraway Places…That I’ve Never Been or Will See Again | 08/26/19 |
My Wonder DrugModafinil | 08/23/19 |
A Teaching Moment“Catch the Trade Winds in Your Sails” | 08/21/19 |
Either/Or…Part 2I Can Live with a Dent | 08/19/19 |
Either/OrThen and Now | 08/16/19 |
Thoughts About Willie Nelson’s Song….On the Road Again | 08/14/19 |
Starry, Starry Night….What Do You See? | 08/12/19 |
Trump and White SupremacyThe Torch Has Been Passed to a New Generation | 08/09/19 |
Mr. Rogers and the Urban Myths As Opposed to Our New Normal Times | 08/07/19 |
Learning Important Lessons About Life…From a U-2 Pilot | 08/05/19 |
My Next Adventure:The Die is Cast | 08/02/19 |
Jack's 9th Birthday Gifts from Famous People | 07/31/19 |
Owen’s 7th BirthdayGifts from Famous People | 07/29/19 |
Lili MarleenA Musical Journey to Reality | 07/26/19 |
Ginger, King of the MountainTaught Me a Lesson | 07/24/19 |
Quisling Then and Now Repeating History | 07/22/19 |
Ginger’s Vet My Shrink | 07/19/19 |
The Dog Days of SummerWithout Air Conditioning | 07/17/19 |
And the Winner Is…. Who Will Get the Nobel Prize for Peace? | 07/15/19 |
Balloons Over BaganAlso, a Time to Learn About the Past | 07/12/19 |
In the Game of Life… It’s Like Déjà Vu All Over Again | 07/10/19 |
I Did It My Way An Important Mentor | 07/08/19 |
Parallels Between Trump and Me But We Respond Differently | 07/05/19 |
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor But Not Like This | 07/03/19 |
Leo Tolstoy What He Learned About Communication | 07/01/19 |
Music as a Unifying Force Also for Oneself | 06/28/19 |
Sins of the Father Will Be Visited Upon Us | 06/26/19 |
I’ve Done the Dance… I Worried that Ginger Might Also Have Danced | 06/24/19 |
My Family Escaped From the Jurassic Park in Myanmar | 06/21/19 |
More Music More Defining | 06/19/19 |
Family Who Is Your Family? | 06/17/19 |
Pick Your Mentors But Be Careful About Who and Why | 06/14/19 |
A Whiter Shade of Pale What’s It All About? | 06/12/19 |
“Go Fly a Kite!” Franklin Did | 06/10/19 |
Another Déjà Vu In the Arts and Philosophy | 06/07/19 |
Cowards Die Many Times Before Their Death... In Rome and In Washington. | 06/05/19 |
Fatty….(New video added of Fatty kick boxing) My Karate Granddaughter | 06/03/19 |
Trump and Stalin Every Pictures Tells a Story | 05/31/19 |
“It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again” For Me and My Pooh Dog | 05/29/19 |
Nietzsche and Ginger Übermensch or ÜberGinger | 05/27/19 |
The Climate Change Debate Evolved from the Scopes Monkey Trial | 05/24/19 |
Prometheus, Galileo, and Nietzsche Verses Zeus, God, and Nihilism | 05/22/19 |
Alabama and Abortion… And Sexism | 05/20/19 |
Nietzsche Apparently Read Thoreau But I Have Read Much of Both | 05/17/19 |
Nietzsche, Pathétique, and No Pain, No Gain Part Two of One-Liners | 05/15/19 |
Nietzsche Wanted Two Things in Life: Music and a Dancing God | 05/13/19 |
Purpose of Our Being What’s It All About, Alfie | 05/10/19 |
The Discovery in Tibet Possibly a Relative of Mine | 05/08/19 |
Carl Sagan The World Learned Much from Him | 05/06/19 |
Pathétique A Way to Live Life | 05/03/19 |
Wanderlust Travel with No Regret | 05/01/19 |
My Dear Pooh Dog and Me (Oops, forgot the video) The Bonding | 04/29/19 |
The Moving Finger Writes And the Writings Haunt Me | 04/26/19 |
Several Things That I Need in Life And That’s When I Need You | 04/24/19 |
I Wander and Wonder But I Am Not Lost | 04/22/19 |
Ti Ti and Oscar Wilde’s Advice No Excuses and No Regrets | 04/19/19 |
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Dr. Marchand | 04/17/19 |
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Jacob Soboroff | 04/15/19 |
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Clarence Page | 04/12/19 |
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Rod Stewart | 04/10/19 |
Scared! Seen as a Teaching Moment | 04/08/19 |
Lord of the Dance From Three Perspectives | 04/05/19 |
It Is A Bridge Too Far Only If You Are a Coward | 04/03/19 |
Coffin Bridge… Build What You Need | 04/01/19 |
Vocation of An Old Man… Being a Bridge Builder | 03/29/19 |
My Granddaughter… Knows How to Play Her Cards | 03/27/19 |
I Will Rage, Rage… On Behalf of 1250 Students and One Celestial Comet | 03/25/19 |
Three Songs Morphed Together Creating Meaning in Life | 03/22/19 |
The Purpose of the Universe Or My Window on the World | 03/20/19 |
Ti Ti… A Remarkable Young Lady | 03/18/19 |
The Issue of Walls As Seen by Pausch, Reagan, and Donald the Dumb | 03/15/19 |
Dealing with the Reaper By Coming Alive and Living | 03/13/19 |
Dreaming…. About My Moment in Time | 03/11/19 |
Going Belly-Up Whales and People | 03/08/19 |
The Dancing Devil Paganini and Me | 03/06/19 |
One Moment in Time Carpe Diem | 03/04/19 |
Before Trump’s America And After Trump’s America | 03/01/19 |
NiC and Narcissus There Is a Better Alternative. | 02/27/19 |
Inferiority Complex Womb Envy vs. Penis Envy | 02/25/19 |
Warren Buffett Don’t Sleep Walk Through Life | 02/22/19 |
The Second Law of Thermodynamics And Trump and Entropy | 02/20/19 |
Tintern Abbey Viewed by Wordsworth and Turner | 02/18/19 |
My Fistful of Meā Culpā… To Our President | 02/15/19 |
I Made a Mistake… Imagine That | 02/13/19 |
This Essay Is About Morphing Pelosi, Donald the Dumb, Pausch, Gandhi, and Me | 02/11/19 |
Something to Dream About While Waiting for the IRS’s Approval | 02/08/19 |
Light at the End of the Tunnel However, the Tunnel is an Illusion | 02/06/19 |
The Value of Pain Can Produce Ultimate Bliss | 02/04/19 |
A Very Brief History of Sexism in Science It All Started with a Blinking Neutron Star | 02/01/19 |
Solution for the Wall Issue in Washington… Have Another Wall | 01/30/19 |
This Essay Addresses Alfie What’s It All About? | 01/28/19 |
Making Your Mark The Issue is What Kind of Mark | 01/25/19 |
Two Despicables Who Saw the Light Colson and Cohen | 01/23/19 |
Hauntings from Deep Space…. From the Tabby’s Star | 01/21/19 |
Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse It Is a Good Sign for Me | 01/18/19 |
What’s Donald the Dumb Doing During the Shutdown? Watching Westerns on TV | 01/16/19 |
The Wall Issue The True Value of a Wall | 01/14/19 |
Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It. | 01/11/19 |
Reflections | 01/09/19 |
Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 01/07/19 |
Thanksgiving Celebration… In Nyaung Shwe | 01/04/19 |
The Two Draculas The Man and the Ant | 01/02/19 |
2018
A New Year’s Eve With a New Resolution for the Coming Year | 12/31/18 |
Christmas Gifts for Owen From People Around the World | 12/28/18 |
Christmas Gifts for Jack From People Around the World | 12/26/18 |
Ginger, My Intelligent Dog… And Aerodynamics | 12/24/18 |
Krampus, the Bad Santa… Is Coming to Get You | 12/21/18 |
What Drives Me… My Himalayan Salt Lamps | 12/19/18 |
It’s All About FamilyI Agree with John Lewis | 12/17/18 |
Mini-Me and Dr. Evil… Then and Now | 12/14/18 |
Reflections on The Magnificent Seven… | 12/12/18 |
Captain Ahab and His Incarnation In Donald the Dumb | 12/10/18 |
The Magnificent Seven… My Dream Team | 12/07/18 |
Would You Like Some Vintage Wine? I Would! | 12/05/18 |
What’s It Like Being a Neanderthal? Most of Us Have Some Neanderthal DNA | 12/03/18 |
From Mud To Macadam | 11/30/18 |
Way Back Home… In America and Myanmar | 11/28/18 |
Tell Your Pets And Your Friends | 11/26/18 |
The Healing of a Himalayan Salt Lamp… For Ginger and Me. | 11/23/18 |
I Celebrate Two Thanksgiving Days… And This Is Why | 11/22/18 |
Helping Donald Dumb… And the Rest of Us | 11/19/18 |
The Musical Play That Never Was But It Describes Me. | 11/16/18 |
"Look at Me I Am Old but I’m Happy" | 11/14/18 |
Building a Log Cabin You Are Really Smart; I’ll Tell My Brother | 11/12/18 |
Another Dinner and Date with Ginger On Election Night | 11/09/18 |
Dreaming The Drug for Realizing Your Hopes | 11/07/18 |
On Land and Sea We Are All Greeks | 11/05/18 |
Lack of Leadership In Turbulent Times | 11/02/18 |
Serendipitous Moments in My Life And They Are Haunting Me | 10/31/18 |
Happy Birthday to My Ginger Pooh Who is Two | 10/29/18 |
Donald the Dumb Should Have Taken Art History | 10/26/18 |
Keep Calm And Things Seem to Work Out | 10/24/18 |
On Making Your Mark And Leaving It | 10/22/18 |
Bette Davis Eyes… But They Are in Myanmar | 10/19/18 |
Ginger’s Vet… My Psychiatrist | 10/17/18 |
The Relevance of Religion In the World | 10/15/18 |
A Journey of a Thousand Miles… Started in a Living Rooms | 10/12/18 |
What White Old Men Need to Understand From a White Old Man | 10/10/18 |
The Woman in Green From Ginger’s Point of View | 10/08/18 |
Sexism in Society Especially in Washington | 10/05/18 |
Rhythm of My Heart Here and Abroad | 10/03/18 |
“Holy Mackerel” Thus Spoke Ginger | 10/01/18 |
Another Return to Casablanca To Understand the Present | 09/28/18 |
Being a Young Turk… During the 20th Century | 09/26/18 |
Teaching Students And Learning as a Teacher | 09/24/18 |
Ginger and Me Just the Two of Us | 09/21/18 |
Rod Stewart | 09/19/18 |
A Noble Person… Meets Another Noble Person | 09/17/18 |
“It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again.” | 09/14/18 |
Hand of a Little Child… Ti Ti | 09/12/18 |
McCain’s Life and Death The Life and Times of a Great American | 09/10/18 |
Stumbling into the Truth… Related to Forever Young | 09/07/18 |
The Pearl of Death Or the Lesson of Life | 09/05/18 |
The Invasion of the Sewer Snatchers They Are Coming to Take Our Sewers | 09/03/18 |
A New Neighbor… Just Moved in Next Door | 08/31/18 |
Admiral McRaven and St. Francis Two Similar Minds | 08/29/18 |
Remembering a Brief Moment in Camelot Which Was Lost in Time | 08/27/18 |
A Strange Third Dance.... Indeed. | 08/24/18 |
Ginger Is the Love of My Life As Seen in Music That I Love | 08/20/18 |
What Goes Around Comes Around…Again and Again | 08/17/18 |
Deep State Bob Woodward and Me | 08/15/18 |
The Meaning of Being Or Why Am I Here? | 08/13/18 |
Be a Dreamer.... And Never Quit Dreaming. | 08/10/18 |
Roger Stone and I What Do We Have in Common? | 08/08/18 |
Snow, the Virtuoso Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev | 08/06/18 |
It Is In Giving That We Get Being Like Bobby | 08/03/18 |
Parallels Between the Spider Woman and Me Money | 08/01/18 |
Stephan Hawking’s Voice Was Sent into Space… But What Did He Say When It Returned? | 07/30/18 |
Why Papa? Answering the Why Questions | 07/27/18 |
Trump Asked, “Am I a F--king Baby…?” Answer: Yes! | 07/25/18 |
The Ripple Effect… “…Can Sweep Down the Mightiest Walls.” | 07/23/18 |
Eppie… Then and Now | 07/20/18 |
GiGi And Her Message to Betsy | 07/18/18 |
Ti Ti’s Birthday Present On Her 14th Birthday | 07/16/18 |
It’s All Begins with Making My Bed— Which Ginger Unmakes | 07/13/18 |
The Weaker Sex Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex | 07/11/18 |
If I Fail… I Will While Daring Greatly | 07/06/18 |
It Is a Matter of Either / Or… Lady Liberty or Donald the Dumb, Despicable, and Dishonest. | 07/04/18 |
Happy Birthday, Owen And Now You Are Six | 07/02/18 |
Possible Explanations of Death A Personal Apocalypse | 06/29/18 |
Snow and Fatty Are Johnny Appleseed in Myanmar | 06/27/18 |
Creating Ourselves By Creating Our Purpose in Life | 06/25/18 |
Teach Your Children Well Lasko and Trump They are Coming To Get You…. | 06/22/18 |
Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty Having Fun Without PaPa Al | 06/20/18 |
Pa Lian Burmese Restaurant A Place Where I Learned a History Lesson | 06/18/18 |
Stephen Hawking Left Us a Great Deal We Need To Follow Our Science Professor | 06/15/18 |
Jack and Owen Make Bananas Flambé | 06/13/18 |
Clarity About Dancing Being Arthur Murray in the Real World | 06/11/18 |
The House of Fear And the Orange Pips | 06/08/18 |
The Goddess Ganga The Transcendence of Reality | 06/06/18 |
Ginger’s Rhino Horn A Priceless Treasure | 06/04/18 |
What’s It All About, Alfie? What Will Be Your Verse? | 06/01/18 |
Ginger's Idea She Wants Hush Money from Cohen | 05/30/18 |
My Assistants in Myanmar Ti Ti and Her Family | 05/28/18 |
Ginger Recovered And I Returned To My Hauntings | 05/25/18 |
Explaining the Dance... Man, the Lights Are Bright.. | 05/23/18 |
Who Are Your Mentors? Here Are Mine | 05/21/18 |
Ten Years and Counting What a Difference a Dance Makes | 05/18/18 |
Horns of a Dilemma The House of Cards | 05/16/18 |
Let's Get Honest.... About Our Fake President | 05/14/18 |
Forrester and Jamal You and I | 05/11/18 |
We Watched Pursuit to Algiers While Ginger Drank Her Grog | 05/09/18 |
Projection… Lock Him Up | 05/07/18 |
Ginger is One and a Half Years Old… But What an Eighteen Months | 05/04/18 |
Henny Penny Cries Out... "The Sky Is Falling" | 05/02/18 |
Moh Moh, Bobby and Me All Dreamers | 04/30/18 |
Getting an Adult in the Room with Trump I have an Idea | 04/27/18 |
A Wrinkle in Time Thinking Outside the Box | 04/25/18 |
Hope Hicks and I....... What Do We Have in Common? | 04/23/18 |
Bobby Burns' Wish "To See Ourselves as Others See Us" | 04/20/18 |
Learning When You Thought You Knew All There Was to Know | 04/18/18 |
Dear PaPa Al Dear Ti Ti | 04/16/18 |
Frederick Douglass A Better Man than I | 04/13/18 |
Trump Needs Help The Dalai Lama | 04/11/18 |
Ti Ti and Her Selfie That’s My Granddaughter… | 04/09/18 |
Bobby’s Suggestion About My Problems… A School in Taunggyi, Myanmar | 04/06/18 |
Sherlock Holmes In Washington While We Drank Ginger Grog | 04/04/18 |
Easter Island In the Past and Future | 04/02/18 |
My Teaching Goal Teach in Taunggyi, Southern Shan State, Myanmar | 03/30/18 |
Hannity One of Donald the Dumb’s Lemmings | 03/28/18 |
Pinocchio Back Then and Now | 03/26/18 |
Pictures from My Myanmar Family Pictures…Part II | 03/23/18 |
Myanmar Pictures Gifts from My Guides—Part I | 03/21/18 |
My Follow-Up… To My Email To Ti Ti | 03/19/18 |
Marner and Eppie Me and the Girls | 03/16/18 |
Ti Ti The Tour Guide | 03/15/18 |
My Heart Issues—Part II The One That’s Pumping Blood | 03/14/18 |
Gifts Given But Never Received | 03/12/18 |
I Want to Have My Last Lecture at Harvard On March 9, 2043 | 03/09/18 |
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death The Times They Are Changin’ | 03/07/18 |
Hello World, This Is My Granddaughter… The Magician from Myanmar | 03/05/18 |
NDA vs. NDAATAMAS A Stormy Time for Donald the Dumb | 03/02/18 |
Problems with Burma Their Hotels | 02/28/18 |
The Question Is… How Will You Be Remembered? | 02/26/18 |
What I Did Accomplish During My Stay in Burma | 02/23/18 |
What Would You Attempt To Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail? | 02/21/18 |
An Emerging Nation On Its Way to a Developed Nation | 02/19/18 |
An Age of Revolution If We But Know What To Do With It | 02/16/18 |
My Heart Issues Both Hearts | 02/14/18 |
Having a Purpose Carpe Diem | 02/12/18 |
The Widow’s Mite And the Rich Donald the Dumb | 02/09/18 |
The Water Horse of Loch Ness And Our Water Horses of Life | 02/07/18 |
The Art of Asking Questions… About Which You Know the Answers | 02/05/18 |
A Shopping Spree With My Three Granddaughters | 02/02/18 |
Moh Moh, Tin Tin, and Me We Are the Incarnations of Bobby | 01/31/18 |
Dressed to Kill Ginger and I Watched Another Sherlock Holmes Mystery | 01/29/18 |
I Failed For the Time Being | 01/26/18 |
What I Learned In High School Applies To This Moment In Time | 01/24/18 |
Interview With Ko Ko and Moh Moh My Children | 01/23/18 |
Lesson Learned About Dreaming I Learned from Bobby | 01/22/18 |
Interview With Fatty My Granddaughter | 01/20/18 |
We Are Family Versus Racism | 01/19/18 |
Interview With Snow My Granddaughter | 01/18/18 |
Bobby the Runt Turned into Bobby the Leader | 01/17/18 |
Interview With Ti Ti My Granddaughter | 01/16/18 |
There Are Moments in Teaching... That Are Rewarding | 01/15/18 |
The Best Week of My Life… Occurred While I Was in Burma | 01/12/18 |
Birthdays and Death-Days The Dilemma | 01/10/18 |
Terror by Night The Third of our Date and Dinner | 01/08/18 |
My Thoughts about the Meaning of Life My Perspective from My Twilight Years | 01/05/18 |
Ginger's World... Blends with My World | 01/03/18 |
Another Breakfast with My Shrink Dealing with Dreaming | 01/01/18 |
2017
Basil Rathbone, the Actor But Much More | 12/29/17 |
Joel and Victoria Osteen True Believers but in What? | 12/27/17 |
America As Bobby, Moh Moh, and the Jazz Singer See It | 12/25/17 |
Churchill and Democracy Trump and Authoritarianism | 12/22/17 |
GiGi’s 90th Birthday Party At Down the Hatch | 12/20/17 |
The Scarlet Claw A Date Night Movie | 12/18/17 |
Dreaming Dreams that Never Were... Asking Why Not. | 12/15/17 |
Commander and Chief of What? SNAFU | 12/13/17 |
Doing the Dance... Fathoming the Unfathomable | 12/11/17 |
Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain While Plowing | 12/08/17 |
The Life and Times of a Femme Fatale Mata Hari | 12/06/17 |
Confucius Said... But We Haven’t Listened | 12/04/17 |
On Picking Mentors Pick Carefully | 12/01/17 |
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock... Remember the Past or Repeat It. | 11/29/17 |
The Big Fib: "I'm, like, a really smart person." | 11/27/17 |
Why Ginger? The Hauntings of My Pooh Dog | 11/24/17 |
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon Watson and Ginger’s Roles | 11/22/17 |
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address... Then and Now | 11/20/17 |
The Haunting of the Edmund Fitzgerald Doomed Before Setting Sail | 11/17/17 |
What is Kepler Looking For? Intelligent Life in the Universe | 11/15/17 |
The Many Michelangelo Painters of the Cave The Renaissance of the Paleolithic Period | 11/13/17 |
The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me Ginger and Don Quixote | 11/10/17 |
The Reason Behind... Everything | 11/08/17 |
The Jim Crow Laws... Went Beyond Our Borders | 11/06/17 |
I'm Bo Bo Gyi The Last Incarnation | 11/03/17 |
The Balfour Declaration One Explanation for the Mess in the Middle East | 11/01/17 |
Another Fake News Item War of the Worlds | 10/30/17 |
The Great Moon Fake News vs. Donald the Dumb’s Fake News | 10/27/17 |
Fake News... Of the Italian Renaissance | 10/25/17 |
Impulse Control Ginger and Trump | 10/23/17 |
Live in the Moment... Plan for the Future | 10/20/17 |
Morning Mist on the La Mancha Moor Learning About Love | 10/18/17 |
Branding of Trump and McCain Which Brand is an American? | 10/16/17 |
Free To Be Me— A Driven Dancer | 10/11/17 |
What I Owe Ashley and Michael Wall Removal | 10/11/17 |
Ginger and Santayana Remember the Past | 10/09/17 |
Lawrence of Arabia One of My Mentors | 10/06/17 |
Jade Suit... Then Roll Me Up When I Die. | 10/04/17 |
Ti Ti A Reason for Being | 10/02/17 |
Ginger and I Promises To Keep and Miles To Go Before We Sleep | 09/29/17 |
Ginger AKA Longshanks | 09/27/17 |
“A Child Educated Only at School... Is An Uneducated Child.” | 09/25/17 |
Mr. Lee and Mr. Rotteveel Two Stories: About When I Was Young and When I Am Old | 09/22/17 |
Larsen C Iceberg... Is Adrift | 09/20/17 |
Ginger and Ra Ra My Pet Family | 09/18/17 |
The Double-Axe A Symbol of My Identity | 09/15/17 |
Lammy Coo Was Crewed By Gingie Pooh | 09/13/17 |
A Part of Donald Dumb Is in All of Us Follow the Money | 09/11/17 |
I’m On the Road Again But Why? | 09/08/17 |
Donald Dumb vs. Jong-un Two Bullies on the Global Stage | 09/06/17 |
The Hollow Man Who Wears Long Ties | 09/04/17 |
When Dreams Aren’t Realized What Should You Do? | 09/01/17 |
Ginger And the Issue of Kissing | 08/30/17 |
Minnows or Manhood Or Scent of a Woman.... | 08/28/17 |
Akhenaten... My Mentor | 08/25/17 |
Get Educated— Travel | 08/23/17 |
Essay with No Words But Look At My Eyes | 08/21/17 |
“Better Angels of Our Nature” In America, Mexico, and Burma | 08/19/17 |
Clarence Page and Donald the Dumb— The President of Trump University | 08/18/17 |
Me and My Shrink Dealing With What Drives Me | 08/16/17 |
Draining the Swamp... And Adding to the Swamp | 08/14/17 |
To Attach or Not to Attach That Is the Question | 08/11/17 |
Jack’s Birthday And Now You Are Seven | 08/09/17 |
Owen’s Birthday And Now You Are Five | 08/07/17 |
Ti Ti and I A Most Haunting Relationship | 08/04/17 |
Macbeth... Guilt Spills Itself for Fear of Being Spilt | 08/02/17 |
The Pentagon Papers... Then and Now | 07/31/17 |
Ginger And Her Unconditional Love | 07/28/17 |
USS Indianapolis and Connecting the Dots Quint, Jack, and Owen | 07/26/17 |
America First Has Been Replaced... With Me First | 07/24/17 |
Just Another Lie Of the Liar-In-Chief | 07/21/17 |
Self-Portraits... By Vincent, Jack, and Owen | 07/19/17 |
Oppie The Scientist and the Philosopher | 07/17/17 |
Just Drop Me Off And Ginger’s Toy Dog | 07/14/17 |
“Close to Treason” It Is Close to Stupid but Not Treason. | 07/12/17 |
Rage, Rage... Against the Pissing Pug | 07/10/17 |
Henry II and Thomas Becket Then and Now | 07/07/17 |
What Did I Learn... From Vinegar Joe | 07/05/17 |
I Pledge Allegiance To Donald the Dumb | 07/03/17 |
Impeachment of Trump And the Tower of Babel | 06/30/17 |
Sexism in the World Why? | 06/28/17 |
My Solution to Healthcare Reform... Single-Payer | 06/26/17 |
Donald Showing-Off I’m, Like John Hancock | 06/23/17 |
Donald the Dumb’s Dilemma Falling from Great Heights | 06/21/17 |
The Benefit of Failed Dreams The Dalai Lama’s Oxymoron | 06/19/17 |
Teaching Donald the Dumb There Is No Happiness Where There Is No Wisdom | 06/16/17 |
The Ides of June And Religious Ties | 06/14/17 |
“Grace Under Pressure” The Way to be a Leader | 06/12/17 |
First and Last Witch Hunt... The Work of the Village Idiots | 06/09/17 |
Learning, the Unquenchable Drive Travel and Learn | 06/07/17 |
What Were You Doing on D-Day? Being What You Might Have Been | 06/05/17 |
Breaking News from Ginger About Trump Colluding with the Russians and Putin | 06/02/17 |
Frobisher’s Quests The Northwest Passage and Gold | 05/31/17 |
Jack and Owen’s Creation A Birthday Cake for Their Mother | 05/29/17 |
HMS Terror, HMS Erebus, Global Warming… Or Nonsense from Those Godless Chinese Communists | 05/26/17 |
The Hauntings of Hachikō and Bobby… And the Haunting of My Gingers | 05/24/17 |
Bridge Builder or Wall Builder A Clear Choice for Donald the Dumb | 05/22/17 |
Ginger’s Predecessors And My Domesticated Carnivore | 05/19/17 |
Brown vs Board of Education... A Time to Reflect | 05/17/17 |
Class, Easter Ham, and Kayaking... The Morphing of My World | 05/15/17 |
Donald the Dumb Got Another Needed History Lesson… From the Prime Minister of Ireland, Enda Kenny. | 05/12/17 |
Ayanna, My Granddaughter... Graduated from College | 05/10/17 |
Three Blind Mice… And Bloody Mary | 05/08/17 |
Do Not Going Gently Into That Good Night I Will Rage | 05/05/17 |
Fearless Girl The Times They are a Changin’ | 05/03/17 |
Brexit vs Scoxit The Death Blow to the British Empire | 05/01/17 |
To Become… What You Might Have Been | 04/28/17 |
Getting It Together… An Avenue to Acquiring Dreams | 04/26/17 |
Ginger’s World… Donald the Dumb’s Cave | 04/24/17 |
Campbell’s Cooking Class Teaches More Than Cooking | 04/21/17 |
The Meaning of Life It Is All About Fighting the Good Fight for Others | 04/19/17 |
The Help Déjá Vu | 04/17/17 |
Life Is a Bowl of Cherries Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men | 04/14/17 |
The Efforts of the Lady vs. The Efforts of Donald the Dumb | 04/12/17 |
This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef... And Ginger Devoured the Little Piggy’s Ear | 04/10/17 |
Elephant in the Room Trump's Mental State | 04/07/17 |
The Amazing Process Called Learning Thinking Outside the Box | 04/05/17 |
Pride Before Fall Learnings from History | 04/03/17 |
Chick Magnet And the Hauntings | 03/31/17 |
Approval Ratings For Someone Who is Insecure | 03/29/17 |
The Hauntings About Bobby and the Gingers | 03/27/17 |
Emperor's Clothes The Donald Isn't Invisible | 03/24/17 |
Ginger's Bed Fit for a Queen | 03/21/17 |
A Tweet to God... A Tweet from James Baldwin | 03/20/17 |
Beef Stroganoff and Bananas Flambé | 03/17/17 |
Crowd Size Size Isn't Critical, But the Truth Is | 03/15/17 |
Ginger's Explanation... For Her Man Cave | 03/13/17 |
On Riding to Samara Then and Now.... | 03/10/17 |
Shrimp Can Whistle "I dream things that never were and say, why not." | 03/08/17 |
Invictus Thank You, Mrs. Davis | 03/06/17 |
A Dog's Purpose The Person's Purpose | 03/03/17 |
What Donald the Dumb is Missing in Life? Eppie | 03/01/17 |
P.T. Barnum Has Returned to Life What Goes Around, Comes Around | 02/27/17 |
Romney and Irish Setter The Political Right is Often Wrong. | 02/24/17 |
Trump and His Trilogy of Errors: Being Smart, Honest, and a Legitimate President | 02/22/17 |
Kennedy Socks Presidents and Camelot | 02/20/17 |
Robert the Bruce I'll Drink to Him! | 02/17/17 |
Thus Spoke Dr. Marchand... And Ginger | 02/15/17 |
Ginger, Socks, and Poe Finding Lenore.... | 02/13/17 |
Narcissus and the Donald "I Love Me...." | 02/10/17 |
Adams and Jefferson An Ethical Battle | 02/08/17 |
Lambs Eat Ivy And Ginger Eats Lamb Ears | 02/06/17 |
Icarus and the Donald Warning About Flying Too High | 02/03/17 |
The Meaning of Ginger The Winter Solstice | 02/01/17 |
"You Know, I'm, Like, a Smart Person." Really? | 01/30/17 |
Live a Long-Life Rather Than Get Old | 01/27/17 |
Winfield Scott And Where I Live | 01/25/17 |
The Chinese Phoenix The Ruler of the Roost | 01/23/17 |
How Will I Live to My 100th Birthday? Answer: Ikigai | 01/20/17 |
Obama-- The Man | 01/18/17 |
Banning Muslims Making America Great Again | 01/16/17 |
The Value of Travel: Education | 01/13/17 |
Merry Christmas Owen From van Gogh, Darwin, Shèngdàn Dăo, and Truman | 01/11/17 |
Merry Christmas Jack From van Gogh, Darwin, Shèngdàn Dăo, and Truman | 01/09/17 |
We Don't Have a Democracy... Yet Either | 01/06/17 |
A Lesson of Life Learned from a Cockroach | 01/04/17 |
Ginger, the Dances, and the Lady It Is All About Determination | 01/02/17 |
Papa's Talk To His Three Youngest Grandchildren... Jack, Owen, and Ti Ti | 01/01/17 |
2016
FLASH!!! We Have More Time This Year. | 12/30/16 |
Step Beyond the Impossible Wall Learning from the Mongols | 12/28/16 |
Walking in the Snow with Wenceslas Is More Than Merely a Carol | 12/26/16 |
I'm Hanging My Lantern For All To See | 12/23/16 |
The Great Value of the Philosophers' Stone... To Me | 12/21/16 |
Jack and Owen's Fossil Collection No Pain, No Gain | 12/19/16 |
Accomplishing Things in Life... Even Long Shots | 12/16/16 |
The Fool on the Hill 50 Years Ago and Now | 12/14/16 |
Teach Your Children, Part 2 But When? | 12/12/16 |
Mentor Tell You Something About You The Value of Post-it Notes | 12/09/16 |
Coping with Butterflies Getting Organized | 12/07/16 |
Only Those Who Dare to Fail... Can Achieve | 12/05/16 |
Moh Moh's Email Big Dreams Never Run Smooth | 12/02/16 |
A Quest... To Find a Heart of Gold | 11/30/16 |
Live While Dying Rather Than Die While Living | 11/28/16 |
Deplorable... Defining the Definition | 11/25/16 |
Ivan the Thankful And It Wasn't for a Turkey and All the Trimmings | 11/24/16 |
Chimps or Bonobos From Whence Did You Evolve? | 11/21/16 |
Roll Me Up I Am Free to be Me at 73 | 11/18/16 |
Tom Brokaw... Another Dancer | 11/16/16 |
The Lady, Bobby, and Bagan Triangulation Process | 11/14/16 |
Jack and Owen, the Artists Determined Artists | 11/11/16 |
Birnam Wood Has Come to Dunsinane... "You're Fired." | 11/09/16 |
On the Road Again... Like a Gypsy | 11/07/16 |
The Lady And the Peacock | 11/04/16 |
Dostoyevsky Danced with Death As a Result, Became a Great Writer. | 11/02/16 |
The Value of Grandchildren Links to the Past and Future | 10/31/16 |
Teach Your Children... To Dream | 10/28/16 |
Sexism and Trump Religious or Societal | 10/26/16 |
Jacks and Owen Drawings For Five Ladies | 10/24/16 |
The Donald A Tale Told by an Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury | 10/21/16 |
Moby Dick Found But Not in a Book | 10/19/16 |
Resurrecting Dashed Dreams By Continuing to Dream | 10/17/16 |
A Bridge Too Far Isn't Always the Case | 10/14/16 |
Death Teaches While You Dance | 10/12/16 |
What a Difference a Few Years Makes If You Are Joisting with Windmills | 10/10/16 |
I Am Free To Be Me.... At 73 | 10/07/16 |
Himmler and His Quest for the Holy Grail Remember the Past | 10/05/16 |
I Challenge the Trim Trump To Test His Stamina Against Mine | 10/03/16 |
Make America Great Again.... Give Me A Date When America Was Great | 09/30/16 |
Donald Get a Purple Heart The Advantage of Trump's Windbag | 09/28/16 |
Dealing with Impossible Dreams Realistically... Or Getting All My Ducks Lined Up | 09/26/16 |
GiGi's Psychoanalysis Me and My Hauntings | 09/23/16 |
The Fighting Téméraire Explained My Nostalgia to Me | 09/21/16 |
The Donald as the Dark Knight He Ain't Don Quixote | 09/19/16 |
Why Do I Care? More to the Point, Why Doesn't Everyone Care? | 09/16/16 |
Confucius Say, "Petty Man Understands Profit" | 09/14/16 |
The Meltdown of the Donald As America Watches | 09/12/16 |
Moh Moh Spoke And She Sounded Like Don Quixote | 09/09/16 |
The Donald and I... Have One Thing in Common | 09/07/16 |
Jack Began His Yellow Brick Road... Of Academia | 09/05/16 |
Return to Myanmar Dream Big | 09/02/16 |
Rediscovering the Past... Eleanor Roosevelt | 08/31/16 |
The Meaning Behind the Man The Man of La Mancha | 08/29/16 |
Trying and Failing... Is Better than Failing without Trying | 08/26/16 |
The Strangest Thing Happened to Me at Jimmy John's Warren Buffett's 10 Ways to Get Rich | 08/24/16 |
One Great Value of Education... Equality | 08/22/16 |
Listening to My Mentors And Dreaming Impossible Dreams | 08/19/16 |
Time to Update My Life... Finally | 08/17/16 |
The Donald and His Mentors... Overseas | 08/15/16 |
The Terrorism Trifecta Three More Dances with Death | 08/12/16 |
The Maltese Falcon Talked And I Listened | 08/10/16 |
The Kiss From Life to Death | 08/08/16 |
We Must Address Conservativism... For Two Essential Reasons | 08/05/16 |
Owen Teaches Me About Fossils | 08/03/16 |
The Value of Giving Gifts... To Young Children | 08/01/16 |
Bobby Kennedy Still Reaches Out to Us. | 07/29/16 |
The Queen's Haunting... Bohemian Rhapsody | 07/27/16 |
Me First Trump's Motto | 07/25/16 |
My Love Letters They Must Be Written | 07/22/16 |
What's Permissible and What Isn't And Who Decides | 07/20/16 |
We Shall Overcome A Belief Amid Darkness | 07/18/16 |
Dealing with Dreams that Could Have Been... But Aren't | 07/15/16 |
Jack's Birthday Letters From Charles Darwin, El Greco, and Thomas Jefferson | 07/13/16 |
Owen's Birthday Letters From Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, and Thomas Jefferson | 07/11/16 |
Prediction of Clinton's Running Mate And Her Running Mate Is.... | 07/08/16 |
Happy Birthday, Jack And Now You are 6 | 07/07/16 |
Last Words Or Don Quixote's Joists with Windmills | 07/04/16 |
Happy Birthday, Owen And Now You are 4 | 07/01/16 |
A 21st Century Unicorn A Creative Moment | 06/29/16 |
"I Come in a World of Iron... To Make a World of Gold." | 06/27/16 |
Talking to a Tree Growing in a Silo | 06/24/16 |
Mother's Day/Father's Day We Will Make Them a Gift | 06/22/16 |
Bloody Hands and No Backbone What a Legacy | 06/20/16 |
My Sherpa Statue Spoke A Valuable Time Spent Listening | 06/17/16 |
The 5-Things Test Seeing Yourself as Others See You | 06/15/16 |
Fiddler on the Roof Or How to Become Learned | 06/13/16 |
The Angel Spoke... And I Listened. | 06/10/16 |
Uffizi Gallery Located in Florence, Indy, and Crown Point | 06/08/16 |
The Thinkers Three Jack, Owen, and Me | 06/06/16 |
The Value of My Hauntings.... It Forces the Issues | 06/03/16 |
A Self-Awareness Game Who is Your Mentor? | 06/01/16 |
The Advice of Master Kong Enjoy Life by Not Working | 05/30/16 |
What I Learned About Toddlers From Two Toddlers | 05/27/16 |
The Morphing of Mongolian History With Mongolian Beef | 05/25/16 |
Travel.... If You Wish to Learn | 05/23/16 |
The Donald The Relationship Between Ignorance and Knowledge | 05/20/16 |
Ghost Riders in the Sky Then and Now | 05/18/16 |
Master Kong Said... Don't Remember Being Wronged | 05/16/16 |
Kelly, My Hair Dresser And Her Mind | 05/13/16 |
The Problem of a Non-Techy... A Computer | 05/11/16 |
Happy Birthday, Ayanna I am Proud of You. | 05/09/16 |
Mr. Turner The Dualism of Feelings | 05/06/16 |
Marc Chagall And His Three Clones | 05/04/16 |
An Anniversary Has Arrived.... The Fifth Anniversary. | 05/02/16 |
Morphing of the Flu with Polio A Strange Juxtaposition | 04/29/16 |
The Third Dance Apparently Was a Misstep | 04/27/16 |
The Relationship Between Death and Life Death Can Cause Us to Live Life | 04/25/16 |
Rewriting History To Fit Our Notions | 04/22/16 |
Ravel's Bolero Was Repeating Itself | 04/20/16 |
How to be Smarter Than We Think We Are | 04/18/16 |
I am Don Quixote But I Am Not from La Mancha | 04/15/16 |
Maude Adams Found Somewhere in Time | 04/13/16 |
In My Life I'll Never Lose Affection for People and Things | 04/11/16 |
Christopher Reeve Another Dancer Who Could Also Fly | 04/08/16 |
Lucy And the Rum-Runners | 04/06/16 |
Don Quixote and Albert Einstein The Two Dreamers | 04/04/16 |
Worthless Windmills Time Will Tell Their Worth | 04/01/16 |
Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic "Full of Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing" | 03/30/16 |
Learning from My Mentor A Knight-Errant On His Deathbed | 03/28/16 |
Aladdin's Lamp A Journey from Göreme to Crown Point | 03/25/16 |
I Want to Have Dinner for Two A Date and Someone Who Has Done the Dance | 03/23/16 |
Weighing the Heart of a Person Princeton and Racism | 03/21/16 |
Einstein's Other Theory From a Genius | 03/18/16 |
A Birthday Cake for Mommy Chewbacca of Indy | 03/16/16 |
Bobby or the Donald Picking Mentors | 03/14/16 |
Could I Have This Dance... For the Rest of My Life? | 03/11/16 |
Alex Failed... But Danced On. | 03/09/16 |
What Drives Me? And the Answer Is.... | 03/07/16 |
On Seeing the Light Chuck, Paul, and Me | 03/04/16 |
Paying Tribute to Steve, Anne, and Dave For Their Assistance | 03/02/16 |
My Casablanca Party Morphed Into My La Mancha Party | 02/29/16 |
Two Roads in the Wood Choose Wisely | 02/26/16 |
The Art of Beating the Grim Reaper Follow Randy Pausch's Example | 02/24/16 |
Grave or No Grave That is the Question | 02/22/16 |
Best of Times, Worst of Times It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely | 02/19/16 |
I Am Looking for Another Dancer The Ultimate Partner | 02/17/16 |
Buddha's Strange Parable... Which We Need to Understand | 02/15/16 |
The Value of Dreaming About My List of Dulcineas | 02/12/16 |
Candidate or a Comedian That is the Question | 02/10/16 |
The Third Dance... Maybe or Maybe Not | 02/08/16 |
Somewhere in Time The Importance of Memories | 02/04/16 |
The Drinkable Book I Wish I Had One While in Indochina | 02/03/16 |
Another Dancer David Hume | 02/01/16 |
Defining Conservative Let's Get Honest About Intent | 01/29/16 |
Talking with Vincent About Life and Art | 01/27/16 |
Revitalizing My Brain After Winding Up in ICU | 01/25/16 |
Dreams will come to you.... If You Are True to Your Quest | 01/22/16 |
A Pit Stop Can Be Our Destination Don't Miss Your Destiny | 01/20/16 |
Miguel Cervantes As Don Quixote | 01/18/16 |
"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun." Randy Pausch is Correct | 01/15/16 |
Baby Jesus In the Hay in Indy | 01/13/16 |
The Little Match Girl And The Golden Statue | 01/11/16 |
The Very Strange Year of 2008 A Year to Remember | 01/08/16 |
The Gift of an Angel It is More About My Feelings | 01/06/16 |
The Donald and the Dulce March to Madness | 01/04/16 |
New Year New Booty | 01/01/16 |
2015
Owen's Christmas Gifts From Around the World | 12/30/15 |
Jack's Christmas Gifts From Around the World | 12/28/15 |
Swallow, Swallow, Little Swallow One of the Saints | 12/25/15 |
Chinese Seal... Talks About Love | 12/23/15 |
A Morning with My Clone Dave and Windows 10 | 12/21/15 |
Don Quixote and Confucius Told Me To Get Off My Arse | 12/18/15 |
Pathétique Moving Music | 12/16/15 |
Going to Hell in a Handbasket And the Tibetan Mask | 12/14/15 |
Doing the Dance Again How to Address Both New Dances | 12/11/15 |
The Scholarly Santa Which is Better Than a Santa with a Sax | 12/09/15 |
I Decided to Support the Emperor Donald Starting with His Red Tie | 12/07/15 |
I Know Who I Am... And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me | 12/04/15 |
Träumerei The Dreaming of Schumann and Me | 12/02/15 |
Devils Tower... Another Misnamed Parable | 11/30/15 |
Take Your Passion and Make It Happen Flashdance Follow-up | 11/27/15 |
Responses to Paris Both Are Vital | 11/25/15 |
Carson and Muslims Insensitivity to Discrimination | 11/23/15 |
What a Feeling And It Is a Great Feeling | 11/20/15 |
Calla's Desk From a Famous Dancer | 11/18/15 |
Want to See What I'm Wearing for Halloween? A Profound Question | 11/16/15 |
Living, Learning, and Lenovo You Win Some, and You Lose Some | 11/13/15 |
Baking Cookies for Halloween.... But for whom? | 11/11/15 |
Pandora Provides Hope... Don Quixote Provides Determination | 11/09/15 |
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg A Valedictorian of Life | 11/06/15 |
Don Quixote Then and Now | 11/04/15 |
Dr. Marchand Knows Medicine Well... And He Knows Life Well Also | 11/2/15 |
Daring Greatly Or How Failure Frees Us to Succeed | 10/30/15 |
The Campbell Cookie Jar The Tie In Between the Past and the Present | 10/28/15 |
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere "To Arms, the Confederacy Is Coming." | 10/26/15 |
My College Teaching Curriculum For Preschoolers | 10/23/15 |
The Vision of Sir Launfal Then and Now | 10/21/15 |
Doubling Down... To Make Dreams Come True | 10/19/15 |
The Chambered Nautilus "Build thee more stately mansions...." | 10/16/15 |
The Old Pine Table An Object of Renewal and Rebirth | 10/14/15 |
Parallel Birthdays Parallel Behaviors: Evolution and Emancipation | 10/12/15 |
It's Confession Time... And It Isn't Sunday | 10/09/15 |
The Mahogany Bench A Place for Dreaming.... | 10/07/15 |
The Right to Live And the Right to Die | 10/05/15 |
Squirt's Observations of Her Papa A Modern Day Eppie's Reflection | 10/02/15 |
The Little Wooden Box An Updated Pandora's Box | 09/30/15 |
Collecting Coins A Tradition Continues | 09/28/15 |
Ayanna and Creativity Picasso was Correct | 09/25/15 |
The Butcher Knife And Changing Diapers | 09/23/15 |
A Great Dancer with Death A Sobering Experience | 09/21/15 |
Putting the Pieces Together The Joy of Coming of Age | 09/18/15 |
The Tulip Pitcher A Picture of Springtime | 09/16/15 |
The Grid A Failsafe for a Wandering Right-Brain | 09/14/15 |
Songs Can Make the World Go Around... Peacefully. | 09/11/15 |
The Felt Picture A Picture of Hopefulness | 09/09/15 |
A Second Look at Life Toward the End of Life | 09/07/15 |
Agnes Majors in the Minors A Big Fish in a Drying Up Small Pond | 09/04/15 |
The Japanese Surrendered... But Why? | 09/02/15 |
The Fire Hat A Symbol of Bravery | 08/31/15 |
The Desire to Ding the Universe But Why? | 08/28/15 |
The Chinese Lantern A Phoenix of Old | 08/26/15 |
From Whence Does the Spark Come? The Creative Act of Pondering | 08/24/15 |
The Value of Pain Or How to Retrieve the Torpedo | 08/21/15 |
Téméraire's Cradle... Talks to Me. | 08/19/15 |
The Value of Standing on Desks Allows One to See the World Clearly | 08/17/15 |
Discovery of Terracotta Warriors... And Nessie | 08/14/15 |
A Man with a Mission... Sinking a German U-boat | 08/12/15 |
Intelligent Life on Other Planets Is there anyone there; does anyone care out there? | 08/10/15 |
The Dragon Rocker And GiGi's Son | 08/07/15 |
The Talking Brass Rice Bowl With Its Advice | 08/05/15 |
Riders on the Streetcar Named Desire: Elizabeth and Rosa | 08/03/15 |
The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Strange Tale | 07/31/15 |
If— A Message for Jack and Owen | 07/27/15 |
When You are Not Preaching to the Choir Finally Understanding What You Thought You Knew | 07/25/15 |
Thinking About Being a Great Grandpapa... Talk about Motivation | 07/24/15 |
Darwin, Chagall, and Lindbergh's Gifts For Jack on His Fifth Birthday | 07/22/15 |
Darwin, van Gogh, and Lindbergh's Gifts For Owen on His Third Birthday | 07/20/15 |
A Gift on Papa's Day You Both Have Hearts of Gold | 07/19/15 |
Dinner with GiGi The Socratic Method of an Older Woman | 07/17/15 |
Avoid Living Life Like a Lemming Choose wisely. | 07/15/15 |
Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma T. E. Lawrence | 07/13/15 |
What Makes Me Tick Finally, an Explanation | 07/12/15 |
What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago, Which I Finally Fully Understand | 07/10/15 |
Jack And Now You Are Five | 07/07/15 |
Alan Seeger And His Dance with Death | 07/04/15 |
Owen And Now You Are Three | 07/01/15 |
What I Learned About Life... From Facing Down the Dragon | 06/29/15 |
The Blue Panther And Her Thoughts | 06/26/15 |
Wading Through the Water of Life Advice by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | 06/24/15 |
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Marilyn Mosby Chose Wisely | 06/22/15 |
Father's Day What Fathers Can Learn on Their Day | 06/21/15 |
Career Opportunity... Being a Gladiator | 06/19/15 |
On Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us Bobbie Burn's Insight | 06/17/15 |
What a Wonderful World You Think to Yourself.... | 06/15/15 |
Chatting with My Tibetan Cabinet On Hearing Voices | 06/13/15 |
The Dragon and Me A Fight to the Death.... | 06/12/15 |
Lincoln Danced with Death ...and Continued on with Life. | 06/10/15 |
The Benefit of Problems Or the Only Means to Success | 06/08/15 |
Cancer and Crabs Strange History that They Both Share | 06/05/15 |
Milky Way and Andromeda's Dance with Death Parallels Our Dances with Death | 06/03/15 |
Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut's Dance with Death | 06/01/15 |
Finally, Someone is Walking the Walk Not Merely Talking the Talk | 05/30/15 |
Genghis Khan, the Galloping Gourmet The Graham Kerr of the Mongolian Steppes | 05/29/15 |
Jack, Owen, and Their Cars They Are Off To the Races | 05/27/15 |
Jack and Artistic Creativity History Repeats Itself | 05/25/15 |
Picasso Was Correct Case In Point: Mother's Day 2015 | 05/24/15 |
Dancing with Death Allows You to Live | 05/22/15 |
Pensive Pence... And Pensive America Coming of Age | 05/20/15 |
It Has Been Seven Years Since I Fell... And Cracked My Head | 05/18/15 |
The Puzzle of Life Solved By... Jack and Owen | 05/15/15 |
I'm a Big Boy... Thus Begins a Never Ending Journey | 05/12/15 |
It Is About How You Lead Your Life Start With Refining Words | 05/11/15 |
Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens How to Avoid the Ghosts | 05/08/15 |
Bob Trout and Me "Very Few of Us Are What We Seem." | 05/06/15 |
It is a Choice between Excitement and Desperation. Choose Wisely | 05/04/15 |
Nepal Then And Now | 05/03/15 |
The Value of Writing It Forces You To Remember | 05/01/15 |
Killer Asteroids Are Coming to Get Us What Can We Do? | 04/29/15 |
"We Get Old Too Soon... And Wise Too Late" | 04/27/15 |
Booth Died 150 Years Ago Today How Has America Changed? | 04/26/15 |
Fertilizing Daffodils But in the Meantime.... | 04/24/15 |
Teddy Roosevelt Was Correct If You Fail, Do So Daring Greatly. | 04/23/15 |
Fear of Making a Mistake Cleese and Roosevelt's Message for Us | 04/22/15 |
Dino and Dove Dung The Value of the Unimaginable | 04/15/15 |
How Do We Learn? The Lessons in Learning | 04/13/15 |
Talk to an Infant's Brain Help Make a Hundred Trillion Neuron Connections | 04/10/15 |
Hannibal Crossing the Alps Another Art History Class | 04/08/15 |
"Live as if You Were to Die Tomorrow." "Learn as if You Were to Live Forever." | 04/06/15 |
Two Crazy Captains Chasing Moby Dick Then and Now | 04/03/15 |
There are Snowballs in Hell Global Warming is the Greatest Hoax | 04/01/15 |
Plato's Allegory of the Cave Jack and Owen's Allegory of the Tent | 03/30/15 |
Ode to Joy In the Midst of Pain | 03/27/15 |
Jack and Owen's Fossil Collection A Face Lift to Their Collection | 03/25/15 |
Lead Death as You Dance with Death It Will Change Your Life | 03/24/15 |
A Choice between Tigger or Eeyore Choose Wisely | 03/20/15 |
Think about the Legacy that You Leave Will Your Relatives Be Proud of You? | 03/19/15 |
Some People Feel the Rain Others Just Get Wet. | 03/16/15 |
The Value of Walls Brick Walls Prove Your Desire. | 03/13/15 |
Dawning of the Age of Aquarius "Then Peace Will Guide the Planets" | 03/09/15 |
Reliving Many Bloody Sundays Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement | 03/07/15 |
Experience Redefining the Word | 03/05/15 |
Standing on the Bridge over the River Kwai Standing on at Least One of the Bridges.... | 03/02/15 |
Book Learning vs. Real World Learning... From Across the Seas | 02/27/15 |
We Want to Teach Our Grandchildren However, We Need To Learn From Them Also | 02/26/15 |
"All Mankind is Divided Into Three Classes..." Some Aren't Buried Until They Are Seventy-five | 02/23/15 |
The Lioness Roars... "Enough Is Enough" | 02/20/15 |
To Kill a Mockingbird Revisited | 02/18/15 |
Islam and Christian Extremism Both Leaders are Crying | 02/17/15 |
Trilobites Found... After 54-Years of Looking | 02/16/15 |
Obama's Golden Opportunity On Leaving a Legacy | 02/13/15 |
Orangutans, Our Cousins... Our Spitting Cousins | 02/09/15 |
Malala... A Role Model for Millions | 02/06/15 |
The Daunting Duality: Long Life vs. Giving It All Up | 02/04/15 |
My Head Fake During My Last Lecture | 02/03/15 |
Graham Kerr and Me On Scottish Delicacies | 02/02/15 |
The Morphing the Mission and the Stone Understanding the Distant Pasts | 01/30/15 |
What Makes a Genius? Being Brave Enough to Fail | 01/26/15 |
Man in the Arena "If He Fails, At Least Fails While Daring Greatly" | 01/23/15 |
Looking Back and Remembering Looking Forward and Hoping | 01/20/15 |
Seeds of Possibilities Only When the Culture Changes | 01/19/15 |
The Most Dangerous Woman in America Mother Jones and Her Boys | 01/16/15 |
Suffering Yields Success Worrying Yields Warts | 01/14/14 |
"Every Child is an Artist." The Question is What Remains in Adulthood? | 01/12/15 |
Dare to Dream Even When Dreams are Delayed | 01/09/15 |
What Makes Me Tick? The True Value of Pain | 01/07/14 |
Ozone to Ferguson A Journey That Never Seems To End | 01/05/15 |
It Was the Best of Times It Was the Worst of Times.... | 01/01/15 |
2014
A Hand Is Put Into Theirs... And the Hand May Be a Little Child's | 12/29/14 |
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream The Disconnect Between Dreaming and Reality | 12/26/14 |
What Einstein Taught Me About Riding a Bike ...Keep Moving | 12/22/14 |
Fred Said that His Iceberg is Melting We Call It Global Warming | 12/19/14 |
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a... Blimp! | 12/15/14 |
Serendipity... Finding Without Looking | 12/12/14 |
Typhoid Mary and Ebola Kaci The Quarantine Question | 12/08/14 |
Jaws for Two: Marine Biology 101 | 12/05/14 |
Ebola Warning from the Scientific Community | 12/1/14 |
Putin A Czar on a Fool's Errand | 11/28/14 |
BP is Back But Are They Telling the Truth This Time? | 11/24/14 |
A Fool with a Plan... Is Better Than a Genius with No Plan. | 11/21/14 |
Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915 "I Never Died," Says He. | 11/19/14 |
Signature Holidays | 11/17/14 |
Death is the Best Invention of Life Breathing Is Not Living | 11/14/14 |
From Witches to Marrying Monkeys Conservatives Have an Answer | 11/10/14 |
"No, I'm Just Jack" "No, You Are Not Just Jack" | 11/07/14 |
What Did You Learn in College Today? Dragonflies and Shells 101 | 11/03/14 |
Seeing When You Think You See... The Difference is Dazzling. | 10/31/14 |
"The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Men... Often Go Awry" | 10/27/14 |
To Thine Own Self Be True... An Ethical First Step | 10/24/14 |
Dreadnoughtus What's in a Name When It Comes To Dinosaurs? | 10/20/14 |
A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great "Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal." | 10/17/14 |
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Its History and Etymology | 10/13/14 |
On Seeing the Light...part II And I Thought that I Had Seen the Light | 10/10/14 |
My Dots in Life Get Connected With the Singing of Pete Seeger | 10/06/14 |
Nothing is Secure Which is a Great Blessing | 10/03/14 |
Christopher Robin is Correct... However, You Must Believe It Before It Is. | 09/29/14 |
Wolverton Mountain The Place Where Dreams Occur | 09/26/14 |
Owen's Desk Which Might Have Been Spruance or Letterman's | 09/22/14 |
Scottish Independence You Need No More Sunshine To Mature. | 09/18/14 |
Monkeying Around... Selfie and Scotland | 09/18/14 |
Pushing Oneself... What I Learned from T. S. Eliot | 09/14/14 |
Articles as a Living Legacy... Why I Write | 09/12/14 |
The Still, Small Voice Emerson and All of Us Have that Voice | 09/08/14 |
It is in Giving that We Get... Especially in Restaurants in Valparaiso. | 09/05/14 |
Snickerdoodles... Let the Baking Begin. | 09/01/14 |
Miracles on the Street... Struggling for Life | 08/29/14 |
Finding a King Cobra in Indy... Frank Buck and Associate Will Bring 'Em Back Alive. | 08/25/14 |
The Morphing of Frank Buck and Me Bring 'Em Back Alive Regardless of the Danger | 08/22/14 |
Jack's Birthday Cake for Owen... The Master Cake Decorator Begins. | 08/18/14 |
Darkest Before Dawn A Logical Disconnect that Is True | 08/15/14 |
Owen's Surprise Birthday Cake for Jack... The Apprentice to the Master Decorator | 08/11/14 |
An Essay on Leadership Or the Blind Leading the Blind | 08/07/14 |
What Can We Learn from Very Smart People? The Relationship between Genius and Guts. | 08/04/14 |
Getting Really Organized... Late in Life | 07/31/14 |
The Sixth Extinction And the Next Dark Ages | 07/27/14 |
Come Alive... Before You Die. | 07/24/14 |
First, It Was a Car and then Women Jack and the Learning Curve to Adulthood | 07/21/14 |
Orwell and Scottish Independence Or Smell the Heather and Vote for Independence | 07/18/14 |
Einstein and Imagination Passing It On | 07/14/14 |
Orwell Was Ahead of His Time... He Should Have Lived in 2014 | 07/10/14 |
Burma-Shave... And Seeing the Light | 07/07/14 |
Making a Birthday Cake for Daddy A Pair of Toddlers' Delight | 07/04/14 |
Conservatives... the Naysayers to the Future | 06/30/14 |
The Chilling Reality of Global Warming Where Does Lying Get Politicians and the Rest of Us? | 06/28/14 |
Connecting the Dots... For Scottish Independence | 06/24/14 |
Moravec Evolution or the 21st Century Scopes Trial | 06/21/14 |
Old Men Should Plant Trees... And They Should Be Planted Now. | 06/16/14 |
Connecting the Dots With Jack and Owen Teaching Them To Be Steve Jobs-esque | 06/14/14 |
Changing the World... The Story of My Struggle | 06/10/14 |
It Was Obamacare, then Benghazi... Enter Dr. Rove | 06/06/14 |
Jack and Owen Novice 21st Century Johnny Appleseeds | 06/01/14 |
The White Man's Burden... Then and Now. | 05/28/14 |
Two New Einsteins... By Asking Why. | 05/25/14 |
Right-Brain Pain and Gain... Getting Organized After Seeing the Light | 05/21/14 |
Leaving a Legacy... A Concern of a 71-Year Old. | 05/18/14 |
The Cosmic Calendar ...and Our Importance on the Pale Blue Dot | 05/15/14 |
Orwell and Kipling and the Battle of Burma Or Why I Care | 05/12/14 |
Jack and Owen's First Art Class Assignment... A Piece of Fine Art | 05/09/14 |
Advantages of Growing Old ...You Will Not Be Here in the 22nd Century | 05/05/14 |
Learning to Play Chess from a Master What Jack and Owen Will Learn from Me. | 05/02/14 |
"Hang a Lantern on Your Problems..." So All Can See. | 04/27/14 |
One of the Advantages of Being Right-Brain: Finding Another Prison. | 04/24/14 |
Good Trip / Bad Trip ...the Great Benefits of Bad Trips | 04/21/14 |
Faulkner's Lesson of Life... Even When the Last Ding-dong of Doom has Clanged. | 04/17/14 |
Exceptionalism Seen in the US, Scotland, and Myanmar | 04/14/14 |
The Sins of the Father in Ukraine... on Steroids | 04/11/14 |
The Sins of the Father in America... What We Must Remember | 04/07/14 |
The Golden Rock Rocks and Stones Hold Countries Together | 04/02/14 |
Don McLean Teaching: Teach by Example | 03/30/14 |
On Seeing the Light... More Clearly | 03/28/14 |
Jack's Art Class Louie a Generation Later | 03/25/14 |
I See More Clearly... Thanks to Carl Sagan. | 03/24/14 |
Owen's View on Life Carpe Diem | 03/21/14 |
Confucius Said... and We Need to Listen | 03/19/14 |
Open-Letter from a Scottish-American An Opportunity To Learn From Myanmar | 03/18/14 |
Learning About Sexism in the Middle East And Learning About An Airlines | 03/14/14 |
Big Churches, Big Poverty, Big Problems ...and even bigger questions. | 03/10/14 |
The Value of Travel... Or Learning About Myanmar. | 03/07/14 |
Once Upon a Time... and they all lived happily ever after. | 03/05/14 |
The Two Czars Parallels between Ukraine and Russia then and now | 03/03/14 |
The Two Ladies: Parallels between the Ukraine and Myanmar | 03/01/14 |
Stop the Presses I am Experimenting with a New Medium. | 02/28/14 |
What the Japanese Remembered During WWII... Some Japanese Did and Some Didn't Remember | 02/24/14 |
The Blessing and the Curse of the Internet ...Everyone Will Have a Saved Memory | 02/20/14 |
What I Learned on the Streets of Yangon... From Two Dogs. | 02/17/14 |
The Value of Dreaming Instructions from My Cardiologist... | 02/14/14 |
Myanmar Itinerary | 02/13/14 |
I Bet that He Never Read Any Shakespeare... But He Clearly Got the Message | 02/10/14 |
The Birth of Burma And Betting on that Nation's Future | 02/06/14 |
What I Learned at the Golden Rock... Believe in the Impossible | 02/02/14 |
Never Too Old to Learn My Techy Computer Confession... | 02/01/14 |
Protest Movements in Myanmar and the US... We Shall Overcome! | 01/30/14 |
I Have Seen the Light... Thanks to Myanmar and Dr. Marchand | 01/28/14 |
Learning from Two Hermits Sending a Pot of Gold Back Home... | 01/23/14 |
An Interesting Thing Happened to Me ...On the Road to Mandalay. | 01/20/14 |
A Tribute to the Lady Myanmar and the World Will Be Better Because of Her. | 01/14/14 |
Leaving a Legacy A Legacy More Valuable Than Money | 01/05/14 |
British Colonial Rule In America, Scotland, Burma, and the World | 01/01/14 |
2013
Rand Paul Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire | 12/29/13 |
The Fading of the Royal We... Something that Americans Need to Know | 12/25/13 |
Michele Bachmann An Eschatological Expert | 12/20/13 |
Charlie McCarthy...Then and Now Times Change and So Do the Dummies | 12/15/13 |
Count Dracula... And the Scottish Independence Movement | 12/10/13 |
Four Reasons for Scottish Independence Devolution Seen By a Scottish-American | 12/05/13 |
Darrow and the Present Remembering to Avoid Repetition | 12/01/13 |
The Martians aren't Invading... But Stupid People are. | 11/26/13 |
BP/BS-Ism and the Scottish Vote Learning from the Past | 11/22/13 |
Congressional Stupid is Doers You Decide the IQ of Some of These Candidates. | 11/17/13 |
Cromwell's Dissolution of the Long Parliament... Then and Now. | 11/13/13 |
Obama's Place in History Learning from Accomplishments | 11/09/13 |
Frugal But Smart Physics and Scottish Independence | 11/03/13 |
Halloween Celebration... Something That Scotland Should Take Note | 10/31/13 |
Churchillian Cringe Cringes are Inferiority Complexes | 10/27/13 |
Pelvic Problems and Driving... An Interesting Attempt at Change | 10/25/13 |
Ace is the Place... Try the One at 3833 N. Illinois, St. in Indy | 10/22/13 |
Ted Still Cannot Get It... Will He Ever Say, "I Do So Like Green Eggs and Ham?" | 10/20/13 |
Lawrence of Arabia A Mentor of Mine | 10/18/13 |
Jack's Desk What a Difference Two and a Half Years Make | 10/12/13 |
Semantic Shift ...Morphing the Meaning of Words | 10/07/13 |
Getting to the End of the Line On the Railway of Death | 10/01/13 |
Winter Contains Spring... I'm Enjoying the Blessing | 09/27/13 |
As Time Goes By Or How Your Weltanschauung Morphs | 09/25/13 |
Movies that Morphed into Science Or How Martian Invaders Affect Us | 09/22/13 |
Scotland Will Be Better Together Really? | 09/18/13 |
Forrester and I in Our Winters Seasons Change Young Man... | 09/10/13 |
What I Learned Being Mentored An Old Man and His Grandson | 09/01/13 |
Scotland's Independence Vote And Its Meaning to You | 08/28/13 |
The Education of Jack The First Steps | 08/25/13 |
Blue Moon And the Double Paradox | 08/20/13 |
Papa's Advice to Squirt... While Going Off to College | 08/18/13 |
Mixing of Food and History The Relationship Between the Stone and the Scone | 08/16/13 |
The Benefits of Learning... From Both Rosslyn and China | 08/12/13 |
An Open Letter to My Fellow Scots... Things are Not as Cloudy as They May Seem | 08/10/13 |
What I Learned on My Second Trip to Rosslyn It is a Question of Whether to Be Better or Bitter... | 08/08/13 |
Don Quixote Rides Again... Or Looking Down the Hallway | 08/04/13 |
Lessons Learned from Pandora and Cain Or the Story of the Jar and the Mark | 07/27/13 |
Philosophy Can Change Your Lives Or Thinking About Walking in Another's Shoes | 07/23/13 |
The Passing of Elmo to a New Generation... Or the Passing of Cookie Monster to a Free Scotland | 07/17/13 |
Jack and Owen's Birthday What You Notice Now Having Been There and Done That | 07/13/13 |
"Art is a Lie that Tells the Truth" Or What I Want to Do When I Grow Up | 07/10/13 |
Einstein's and My Brain... How Different are Our Brains? | 07/06/13 |
Scottish Consciousness... Learning from Steve Biko | 06/24/13 |
Learning to Dance in the Rain... Or What Edison Knew About Dancing | 06/18/13 |
Mark Twain and I... How Our Weltanschauungs Parallel | 06/16/13 |
Pain is Pain... That Makes Me Tick | 06/07/13 |
Advice to My Granddaughter... My Only Granddaughter | 06/03/13 |
The Royal We And a Scottish Spider | 06/02/13 |
How Will the Scots Vote? It's All About Who They Emulate | 05/31/13 |
In Quest of the Loch Ness Monster... Is it Real? | 05/27/13 |
There Exists a Thin Line... Between Minding Your Business and Minding Your Business | 05/25/13 |
Humpty Dumpty Party Or How to Celebrate Being Alive | 05/22/13 |
Arthur's Stones From Arthur's Seat | 05/20/13 |
Do You Have Any Suggestions... On Planning My New Life? | 05/18/13 |
Scottish Independence and Animal Farm These are Days of Miracle and Wonder | 05/13/13 |
Promise Made and Promise Not Kept Bannockburn and the 2014 Referendum | 04/23/13 |
An Open Letter to Kim Jong-Un It's Not Just the Peasants that Lack | 04/15/13 |
Looking Back and Forward... While Singing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" | 04/12/13 |
Little Jack Horner Or How Heavy Words Often Get Lightly Used and Confused | 04/06/13 |
Roberts and the Rubicon Open Letter to Chief Justice Roberts | 03/29/13 |
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Three Bags Full of Meaning | 03/27/13 |
The Philosophical Objective... The Avoidance of Becoming Human Lemmings | 03/26/13 |
Portman and Gays Rob Has Left the Retention Cul-Du-Sac | 03/21/13 |
Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism How Really Special are We? | 03/18/13 |
Learning the Truth from the Past... Will Benefit the Future | 03/15/13 |
Learning Latin in Ephesus... VomitāRe | 03/14/13 |
Evolution Vs. Creationism The Blessing of Problems - Learning | 03/13/13 |
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary Learning History from Nursery Rhymes | 03/11/13 |
We are All Greeks ...Receiving and Responding | 03/05/13 |
Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater ...Sexism in a Nursery Rhyme | 03/03/13 |
Limited Lineage Looking Back and Looking Forward | 02/07/13 |
Wondrous World of Why? On Staying Engaged in Life | 02/03/13 |
A Lesson About Life What I Finally Learned When Turning 70 | 01/28/13 |
Not All Women are Perfect... Here are Some Examples | 01/22/13 |
The Egyptians and the Republicans ...A Learning from the Past | 01/16/13 |
New Year's Resolution for the Opposite Sex Or Suggestions from a Very Feminist Male | 01/01/13 |
2012
Is it a Time to Chill or a Time to Get Busy... That is the Question? | 12/31/12 |
The Fighting TÉMÉRaire Growing Old and Understanding Art | 12/15/12 |
The End of Time Won't Come on December 21st... Unless My Prediction is Wrong | 12/12/12 |
On My 70th Birthday... Observations About Technology over Those Years | 12/10/12 |
The Three Grovers of My Life The Farmer, the Puppet, the Incarnate God | 12/01/12 |
Reflections on Getting Old... One of the Reasons for My Loving Grandchildren | 11/23/12 |
Bonhoeffer—Crossing the Line... Thank You: Dietrich, Bobby and Barack | 11/20/12 |
BS from BP BP is in Deepwater | 11/17/12 |
Binders of BS... Could Create Blessings from BS | 11/11/12 |
"It was The Best of Times..." Economic and Natural Disasters | 11/04/12 |
Moonwalking over Women... "Stupid is as Stupid Does" | 11/01/12 |
Levels of Learning... Or How to Make Learning 3-D | 10/27/12 |
Scotland's Independence Movement ...A 21st Century Renaissance | 10/20/12 |
Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Jack, Owen, and I... Don't Major in the Minors of Life | 10/18/12 |
No Pain, No Gain... Learning to Jump to Success | 09/09/12 |
Connecting the Dots... On Your Way to Eldorado | 09/09/12 |
Open Letter to the Chief Justice John Roberts... And Open Dinner Invitation | 09/05/12 |
Clint Eastwood's Speech... And the Importance of Living Wills | 09/03/12 |
Correcting Churchill... The Value of Viewing Life | 08/28/12 |
The Bridge Builder ...Another Example of Wisdom | 08/23/12 |
On the Road to Mandalay ...A Road Less Traveled | 08/20/12 |
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree Newton...Yes-Romney...No | 08/14/12 |
Ethics at Two Levels And Neither Work Well for Romney | 08/12/12 |
When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Going? I'd Modify that Adage | 08/11/12 |
Tabula Rasa... The Myth | 08/05/12 |
Campbell Has Gone Socratic An American Questioning | 07/30/12 |
Acquiring a Heart of Wisdom... Cuddling with Grandchildren | 07/23/12 |
Royal Racism ...Holier Than Thou | 06/10/12 |
Dating of Independence Day 1776 and 2014 | 06/06/12 |
Sink the Bismarck What We Can Learn of the Past and Present | 05/18/12 |
An Old Man and His Grandson Then and Now | 05/09/12 |
Political Predictions Clinton vs. Santorum in 2016, and Clinton Wins | 04/15/12 |
On Having Gifted Grandchildren It's All Genetic | 04/10/12 |
Learning is Important...at Any Age What My Students Can Learn from Jack | 01/29/12 |
Advice to Jack Having Lived Much of My Life | 01/15/12 |
2011
Lean on Me An Open Letter to My Grandson | 11/11/11 |
O Ship of State Thoughts While Sailing My Ocean | 10/18/11 |
Come and Get Them Molon Labe Both Then and Now | 09/25/11 |
Slavery Then and Now | 09/24/11 |
The Phoenix - Then and Now My Pilgrimage Back to Greece | 08/01/11 |
A Special Gift A Signed One Dollar Bill | 07/07/11 |
Jack's Desks A Desk with Famous Users | 06/20/11 |
Adoption It is a Two-Way Street | 06/18/11 |
Palin and History The Resurrection of Life via Revere's Ride | 06/12/11 |
Some Things that You Need to Learn, Jack Learn Well, and You Will Succeed Well | 06/04/11 |
My Friend Harry Talk to Me Next | 06/01/11 |
A Vision of a New America Has Replaced Our "You are Fired" Attitude | 05/05/11 |
The Blessings of Radiation The Strange Mix of Blessings and Curses | 05/01/11 |
Odysseus is My Middle Name My Similarities with Ancient Mariners | 04/25/11 |
Funny Story About My Kidney Stone The Strange Mix of Blessings and Curses | 04/22/11 |
Benjamin Franklin Helped Jack, And Jack Helped Benjamin Franklin | 03/03/11 |
2010
So What are You Going to Do About It? The Advantages of Dreaming | 12/05/10 |
I'm Not Liberal Enough And Neither is America Just Say No to the Just Say No Group | 12/01/10 |
On Remembering Grandfathers The Benefit of Remembering Time Together | 11/25/10 |
The Great Gate of Kiev Right Brain Curiosity | 11/22/10 |
Lance Armstrong of Doubletree A Biking Lesson | 11/10/10 |
One of the Reasons for Biking... Jack | 10/09/10 |
Obama Signing the Affordable Care Act America Finally Has Universal Healthcare | 03/23/10 |
The Good Fortune of Winding-Up in Hue, Vietnam | 01/30/10 |
2009
Your Butterfly Net: Thoughts About Lucy in the Sky | 10/11/09 |
The Luddites are Back The Things I Learned About National Healthcare--40-Years Ago | 08/23/09 |
The Bridge Over/On the River Kwai Myths and Realities | 07/07/09 |
Speaking of Security.... On Winning an All Expense Paid Trip to Obama's Inauguration | 05/18/09 |
Words of Wisdom that I Didn't Remember Pearls of Wisdom from ICU | 02/19/09 |
2008
Bobby and Barack Election of Barack Obama | 09/28/08 |
Tibetan Version of Tiananmen Square "Watch Out for What You Wish; You Might Get It." | 03/24/08 |
Present, But Not Voting Out of Sight, Out of Mind | 03/05/08 |
Bobby and John Grey A Canine Example for Each of Us | 02/17/08 |
Love's Second Name The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained... | 01/26/08 |
2007
Believing in a Dream...Again Maybe Chris Matthews of Hardball was Wrong This Election Cycle | 12/11/07 |
Biko A Man Who Died for an Idea that Didn't Die | 09/12/07 |
Development without Destruction A Position Paper on Tourism Development in the Developing World | 04/18/07 |
2006
Donald Woods A White Liberal Who Knew His Place... | 08/05/06 |
Freedom of the Mind The Contributions of Stephen Biko | 08/03/06 |
Why Africa? For a Myriads of Reasons... | 07/24/06 |
A Tribute to Nelson Mandela Happy Birthday from All Your Admirers from Around the World | 06/18/06 |
What's Wrong with Being a Liberal? A Defense of the Left-Wing | 05/22/06 |
Friedman is Right Columbus was Wrong After All--the World is Flat! | 04/19/06 |
I Am Not a Sloth Handling My Workload | 04/18/06 |
DÉJÀ Vu All over Again A Helping Hand from Desmond Tutu--Again | 03/19/06 |
Plato and the Grand Tour Avoiding the Shadows of Education | 02/20/06 |
Sexism Masquerading as Liberation A Critique on the Subtleties of Sexism | 01/13/06 |
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 |
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 |