Connecting the Dots
Connecting the Dots
Recently, I discovered one of the benefits of growing old...beyond mere longevity. Age has forced me to
think
more intensely. In the past year, I have traveled to Scotland to research the Scottish independence
movement and
then traveled to Myanmar/Burma to study the human rights efforts in that country. I loved the trip to
Scotland.
It was nice to return to where I did post-graduate studies 45-years ago, however the trip to Myanmar
changed my
life. I am a different person than I was before spending a month in Myanmar.
When I returned to the States, I had a routine appointment with my cardiologist, Dr. Marchand. My heart
issues
are fine, but I asked him why I was so driven. He paused for a moment and then said, "You have seen the
light."
In the past four months, I have spent a great deal of time writing about seeing the light and attempting
to
flesh out the next question. Why? Why have I seen the light? In the process, I have looked back on
7-decades of
events in my life. Steve Jobs calls these events, dots. I have danced with
death a
couple times, in which I learned that I was finite. I have become more left of center than I was even
back in
the 60s during the civil rights movement. I think about the legacy that I will leave the world. I want
to use my
experiences in my life to help those who are younger to enjoy life. And the list goes on....
Then it dawned on me. That is precisely what Steve Jobs said was the reason for my seeing the light...I
was
connecting the dots. This is part of his commencement speech at Stanford.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So
you have to
trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something --
your gut,
destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the
difference in
my life.
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Who I am today is based upon having the wondrous vantage point of connecting many dots over the years.
The
connecting of those dots as I look back reveals a wondrous revelation of seeing the light...a light like
I never
imagined as I was experiencing the dots. As the events or dots occur, that is not the time that one can
see the
meaning of the dots. Nevertheless, hindsight is.
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Another Eureka Moment
Thank You, Nancy
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09/30/24 |
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“I Want To Be Your Protector”
Said the Neanderthal
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09/27/24 |
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Following in the Footsteps of Lt. Zogg
It’s All About Being Determined
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09/25/24 |
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The Virgin King
Enjoying Life in Another World
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09/20/24 |
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Another Parallel
With James Earl Jones and Me
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09/18/24 |
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A Funny Thing Happened To Me
As I Age, Not So Gracefully
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09/16/24 |
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Discovering a Mentor
In a Field of Dreams
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09/13/24 |
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The Cat Lady
By the Dog Gentleman
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09/11/24 |
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Another Set of Photos
For Ti Ti from PaPa Al
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09/09/24 |
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Creating Fortress America
Thoughts of Vulgar Vance
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09/06/24 |
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Becoming a Monkey King
It's More Than Mere Monkey Business
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09/04/24 |
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The Weird Duo
Donald the Dumb and Vulgar Vance
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09/02/24 |
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We Are All Teachers
Be Careful What You Teach
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08/28/24 |
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Become a Bo Bo Gyi
It's About Giving to Get.
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08/26/24 |
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The Snowman vs Allen
How To Change the World
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08/23/24 |
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Ginger Has Done the Dance
We Are Bonded as Dancers
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08/21/24 |
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Creating Elysium
In This World
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08/19/24 |
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Destiny or Fate
It is Another Either/Or Issue
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08/16/24 |
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What’s with Nancy Nurenberg?
It’s All About Feeling Dumb and Poor
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08/14/24 |
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Replying to Ti Ti’s Request
For a Photo of PaPa Al
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08/09/24 |
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Get With It
Roar Like a Lion
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08/07/24 |
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You Know that You Are Getting Old
When You Don’t Know All the New Words and Slogans
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08/05/24 |
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Trump as Savior
Let Me Hear a Halleluiah
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08/02/24 |
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Lessons Learned in Former British Colonies
Like America, South Africa, and Myanmar
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07/31/24 |
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The Third Old Man
Or Three Coins in the Fountain of Life
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07/29/24 |
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A Story of Two Old Men
And How They Will Be Remembered
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07/26/24 |
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The Washington Role Model
The Cherry Tree and Flowering Crabapple Tree
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07/24/24 |
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Thanking Our Grandmothers
And Following in Their Footsteps
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07/17/24 |
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Ukraine and Myanmar
An Unfortunate Parallel
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07/15/24 |
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A Parable about Geese
Waddle or Fly
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07/10/24 |
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It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
With the Father and Son
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07/05/24 |
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Once Upon a Midnight Dreary
What Would Kierkegaard Do?
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07/03/24 |
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How to Become Rich
Without Any Much Money
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07/01/24 |
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How Will We Be Remembered
Another Either / Or Essay
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06/28/24 |
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Ethnic Cleansing
Then and Now
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06/26/24 |
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Christian Nationalism
Who are These Christians?
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06/24/24 |
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We Need to Get Honest
Much Sooner Than Later
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06/19/24 |
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A Funny Thing Happened
At My Doctor’s Office
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06/17/24 |
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The Sickness Is Spreading
Among Many Americans
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06/14/24 |
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Had We All Read Longfellow
America Would Be a Better Place
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06/12/24 |
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I’m Leading Death Again
On My Dancefloor of Life
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06/10/24 |
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Let Me Get This Straight
Trump Is An Innocent Man
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06/07/24 |
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Learning from Kipling
“You’re a Better Man than I Am, Gunga Din!”
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06/05/24 |
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A Poem for Ti Ti
Who is Now Twenty
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06/02/24 |
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What’s It All About, Alfie
According to Longfellow
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05/31/24 |
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We Still Aren’t Independent of England
Many Still Have the Same Mindset
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05/29/24 |
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Repeating the Past
Make Sure You Understand the Past
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05/24/24 |
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What a Difference a Generation Makes
Greatness Isn’t Always Genetic
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05/22/24 |
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My Grandmother’s Words
Haunt and Inspire Me
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05/20/24 |
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Every Day is Like Survival
You're My Lover Not My Rival
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05/13/24 |
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A Very Stable Genius
Is Loose and Running Around
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05/06/24 |
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The Flying Dutchman
Then and Now
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05/03/24 |
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Trump’s Roosting Chickens
Are Coming Home to Roost
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05/01/24 |
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Rudy, Be Careful with Your Rants
You Should Have Watched Men in Black
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04/29/24 |
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Still I Rise
Despite Racism
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04/26/24 |
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Field of Dreams
A Haunting Return
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04/24/24 |
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Lincoln and His Better Angels
Or Trump and His Worst Demons
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04/22/24 |
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Immortal Beloved
Beethoven’s, Shakespeare’s, and Mine
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04/19/24 |
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Repeating Bad History
Creates Newer Bad History
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04/10/24 |
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What I Discovered
When I Wasn’t Looking
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04/08/24 |
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Bush’s Bus Ride
Leadership or Roadkills
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04/05/24 |
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Ginger Trains Her Owner
And I’m Obedient
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04/03/24 |
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April Fool’s Day
For the Donald
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04/01/24 |
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A Whiter Shade of Pale
What’s It All About, Alfie?
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03/29/24 |
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“We Are Made of Star-Stuff,”
But We Don’t Realize It.
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03/27/24 |
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The Real Mona Lisa
Or the Fake Ones
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03/25/24 |
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Standing on the Hill
Our Human Destiny
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03/20/24 |
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Träumerei
Then and Now
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03/15/24 |
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Trump Has Some Issues with Taylor Swift
Beyond His Legal Woes and Coming Up with a Half Billion Dollars
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03/11/24 |
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I Have Issues with Justice Thomas
The Holier Than Thou Mindset
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03/08/24 |
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It’s Better to Burn Out
Than to Fade Away
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03/06/24 |
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Ginger’s New Fashion Statement
Keeping Her Happy and Healthy
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03/04/24 |
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Music and Me
The Cost of Love Then and Now
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03/01/24 |
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And a Sickness Too Took Root
Donald the Dumb Has Rooted
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02/28/24 |
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Odysseus’ Long, Long Journey
Both Odysseus and Odie
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02/26/24 |
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Another Bedtime Story for Trump
About Aaron and the Donald
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02/21/24 |
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Bo Bo Gyi
And His Advice to His Granddaughter
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02/19/24 |
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Kicking the Can Down the Road, Again
50th Mass Shootings in America This Year
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02/16/24 |
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St. Valentine’s Day
The Real St. Valentine’s Day
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02/14/24 |
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If I Were in Charge of Education
This is What I Would Mandate
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02/12/24 |
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The Box or Jar of Pandora
Another Parable
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02/07/24 |
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The Two Faces of Prometheus
Which Face Will You Pick?
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02/05/24 |
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Trump Wasn’t the First Trump
There Have Been Others
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02/02/24 |
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The Past is a Precursor
To the Future
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01/31/24 |
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The Achilles’ Heel
Of the Republicans
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01/29/24 |
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My Hill of Beans Paradox
Created by the James Webb Space Telescope
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01/26/24 |
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My Birthday
And the Age of Aquarius
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01/24/24 |
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Snow and Fatty
Are Following in Ti Ti’s Footsteps
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01/19/24 |
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Donald the Dumb Believes
Some Really Dumb Things
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01/15/24 |
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Artificial Intelligence
Past, Present, and Future
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01/10/24 |
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Infallibility of Trump
And the Divine Right of Kings
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01/08/24 |
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Starting a New Year
With a New Battery and Insight
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01/01/24 |
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What’s It All About...
The Paradox of Life
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12/29/23 |
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Unexpected Events
Can Create Opportunities for Greatness
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12/25/23 |
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Do You Hear the People Sing...
Who Will Not Be Slaves Again!
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12/22/23 |
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Why Write?
Answers from Vonnegut and Faulkner
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12/20/23 |
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Solar Flares and CMEs
Impending Impact
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12/18/23 |
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PaPa Al’s Reply
To Ti Ti’s Posting, I Love Education
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12/15/23 |
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The Paradox of Learning
It Is an Either/Or Knowledge Base
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12/13/23 |
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My Yin Yang World
Dreams vs. Reality
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12/08/23 |
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I Have a Solution
For the Stupid TV Medicare Announcements
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12/06/23 |
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The Orange Jesus...
Is from a Planet in the Andromeda Galaxy
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12/04/23 |
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Ginger’s Gift to Dr. Derrè
Ginger Stated, “Dr. Derrè’s My Vet”
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12/01/23 |
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What Would T.E. Lawrence Do
In Gaza and Israel?
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11/29/23 |
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Mary Had Little Lamb
And PaPa Al Has a Big Irish Setter
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11/27/23 |
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The Evolution of Thanksgiving
A Long and Winding Road
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11/24/23 |
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A Future Thanksgiving
Far, Far Away
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11/22/23 |
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Reaching Out to Others for Help
It Is Giving that We Get
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11/20/23 |
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The Royal We
Revisited
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11/17/23 |
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Bananas Flambé for GiGi
An Extraordinary Woman
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11/15/23 |
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Let Me Get This Straight
“If you go after me, I’m coming after you.”
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11/13/23 |
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On the Road Again
Ginger, the Pooh Dog, and Me
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11/10/23 |
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If I Were Q
I’d Tell the Whole Story of the Téméraire
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11/08/23 |
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
A Lesson Taught by Dylan Thomas
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11/06/23 |
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The Reason for Being
An Either/Or Situation
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11/03/23 |
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The Ripple Effect
An Either/Or Issue
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11/01/23 |
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Ginger’s 7th Birthday
What’s Life All About, Alfie?
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10/30/23 |
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Sagan’s Golden Records
On the Horns of a Dilemma
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10/27/23 |
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Batter Up
Next Batter
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10/25/23 |
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Flipper...
Let the Show Begin
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10/23/23 |
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Breath of Fresh Air
From My Web Administrator
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10/20/23 |
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Me and My Echocardiogram
Beyond a Diagnosis
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10/18/23 |
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Lawrence of Arabia...
A Mentor of Mine
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10/11/23 |
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Let’s Do the Math
It is an Either/Or Choice
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10/09/23 |
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Kevin Needs Therapy
And a Newer Gaming Video
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10/06/23 |
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Ginger’s Check-Up
Again, at Purdue Veterinary Hospital
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10/04/23 |
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Ti Ti, the Artist
The Georgia O’Keeffe of Myanmar
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10/02/23 |
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Casablanca...
Then and Now
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09/29/23 |
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The Evolution of Humans
To the Present Day
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09/27/23 |
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Ancient Greeks and the Fear Factor
The Truth about the Fear Factor
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09/25/23 |
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My Second Shot
Or the First Insurrection
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09/22/23 |
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My World of Xanadu
Another Personal Parallel Essay
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09/20/23 |
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Ti Ti’s Surprising Email
To Her Grandfather
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09/18/23 |
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Tyson’s Two Thoughts
Regarding AI and a Ticking Clock
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09/15/23 |
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Creating My Alive Life
Gone Will Be the Days of Being Dead Tired
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09/11/23 |
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The Importance of Happenstance
For Heavenly Clauses
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09/08/23 |
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Another Dance for Ginger
Learn and Live in the Moment
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09/01/23 |
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Before Burning Books...
We Need to Read Them
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08/30/23 |
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The Source of Trump’s Mug Shot
It’s Naissance was Wagner
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08/28/23 |
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Ginger’s Gifts
From Michelle
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08/25/23 |
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Michelle
The Sculptor and Writer
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08/23/23 |
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Holding Hands with Neal Katyal
What My Teacher Taught Me
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08/21/23 |
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Hollow Men
Two Troubled Souls
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08/18/23 |
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Thomas and Trump
The Teacher and Student
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08/16/23 |
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Trump Won’t Like Judge Chutkan
It Isn’t Wise for Trump To Threaten Her.
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08/11/23 |
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Haunting Photos
Then and Now
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08/09/23 |
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Grasp This Truism
From St. Francis and Buddha
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08/07/23 |
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Oppie and Me
The Similarities are Striking
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07/24/23 |
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Looking for a Mentor?
Try Jacques Portefaix or Marie-Jeane Valet
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07/21/23 |
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The Synchronicity of My Mentors
Bobby and Don Quixote
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07/19/23 |
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The Clown Car Drivers
Are Driving Scared
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06/30/23 |
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Stonhenge and Manhattanhenge
What's it all about, Alfie?
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06/28/23 |
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The Tree in the Silo
A Metaphor of Me
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06/23/23 |
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Doublethink
What Trump Learned from Animal Farm and 1984
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06/07/23 |
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Damocles Then and Now
The Parallels are Striking
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06/05/23 |
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Pick Mentors Carefully
The Lady and Bobby
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06/02/23 |
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Be a Sherpa
Whether or Not You are a Beekeeper or Nepalese
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05/31/23 |
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A Golden Opportunity
Explaining Ti Ti to her Class
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04/10/23 |
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A Suggestion of a Mentor
A Sequel to Picking a Mentor Article
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04/07/23 |
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Picking Mentors
Choose Wisely
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04/05/23 |
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Run That Past Me Again.
It Doesn’t Make Sense.
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03/31/23 |
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Witch Hunts
Question: Who Is the Witch?
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03/29/23 |
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Tucker’s Talk
Is Double-Talk
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03/24/23 |
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Rewriting the Past
By Editing or Deleting It
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03/22/23 |
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We Are All Greeks
Shelley, Vangelis, and Hawking
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03/17/23 |
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Ginger and I
Our Trip Down the Yellow Brick Road
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03/13/23 |
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Music Explains Me
Music Drives Me
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03/03/23 |
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Happy Birthday Moh Moh
And Many More
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02/27/23 |
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Jabbering Parrots
What We Can Learn from Churchill and Buffett
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02/22/23 |
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Inherit the Wind
And You Will Be Gone with the Wind
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02/20/23 |
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Threading the Needle
To Address Racism
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02/17/23 |
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TV Commercials
Five Pros and One Con
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02/15/23 |
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Learning from Lao Tzu
To Live Life Daringly
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02/13/23 |
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Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi
Addressing Our Nation’s Problems
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02/06/23 |
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Let’s Get Honest
About White Camelot
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02/03/23 |
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Education is a Double-Edged Sword
How To Address Learning
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02/01/23 |
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Aggressive Chimpanzees
Outside of Africa
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01/30/23 |
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The Importance of Footprints
But the Question is When
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01/25/23 |
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The Evolution of Aldie
According to a 21st Century Darwinian Theory
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01/23/23 |
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What’s It All About Alfie?
From an Eighty-Year Old Alfie
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01/20/23 |
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My Quest for Eldorado
In Three Parts
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01/16/23 |
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What Causes Stupidity?
Lying or Lack of Knowledge
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01/13/23 |
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Than
Myanmar’s van Gogh
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01/11/23 |
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Grasping Reality
I Can’t Explain It
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01/09/23 |
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The Benefit of Pain
Take Advantage of It
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01/02/23 |
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The Value of Mentors
It’s About How We Play Are Cards
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12/28/22 |
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It’s All About We
An Important Lesson of Life
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12/26/22 |
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Repeating the Past
It’s Just Fake News
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12/14/22 |
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Problems are Assets
Seize the Problems
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12/09/22 |
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The Reckoning Day
Of the Invincibles
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12/07/22 |
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A Soccer and Hockey Game
What’s the Take Away?
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12/05/22 |
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My Way
Morphing to My Mentoring
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12/02/22 |
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A Picture is Worth a Billion Words
Or Pick Your Mentors Wisely
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11/30/22 |
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My Twilight Hauntings...
About Immortality
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11/25/22 |
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What World Are We Living In?
The Denier’s World
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11/23/22 |
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A Swan Song
Then and Now
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11/18/22 |
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Finger Pointing
It’s Their Fault....
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11/16/22 |
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Camelot Revisited
By Looking Again at the Past
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11/07/22 |
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A Message from Missoula
And the Dangling Dog
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11/04/22 |
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Ginger is Now Six
As We Do the Dance
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10/28/22 |
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Transparency Revisited
While Down on the Farm
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10/21/22 |
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Growing Up Without Transparency
And Finally Discovering It
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10/14/22 |
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Facing Storms of Life
Another Either/Or Situation
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10/07/22 |
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Trying Times
Testing Souls
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09/23/22 |
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Picking Mentors
It Will Change Your Life
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09/09/22 |
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A Bedside Story for Donald
It Begins, “Once Upon a Time….”
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08/29/22 |
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Seeing Things More Clearly
On My Yellow Brick Road
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08/22/22 |
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Narcissus of the Past
And Narcissus of the Present
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08/19/22 |
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Hoosier’s Neighbor?
The Ultimate Question
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08/17/22 |
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An Important Teaching Moment
Joe and I Are Twins
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08/10/22 |
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I Was Under the Knife
For Nearly Five Minutes
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08/5/22 |
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A Funny Thing Happened to Me in Surgery
I Talked About What Rattles Me
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08/3/22 |
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John Gotti
Alias Teflon Don and Dapper Don
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07/29/22 |
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One of My Mantras
Gals Pick Your Mentors Carefully
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07/27/22 |
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A Lesson About Life…
Don’t Fear Death…
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07/24/22 |
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Happy Birthday Snow
You Are 13
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07/22/22 |
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My Place in the Universe
I Don’t Want to be Lost in Space
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07/15/22 |
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Learn from William Wallace and Gilgamesh
As We Journey Down Our Yellow Brick Roads
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07/13/22 |
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Learning from the Japanese
About What We Don’t Know
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07/11/22 |
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Another Mantra of Mine
Be a Storyteller
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07/8/22 |
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Alan Turing
Thinking Outside the Box
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07/6/22 |
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Doing the Dance on Steroids
And Promises to Keep
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06/29/22 |
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Trouble in River City
Come Hell or High Water
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06/24/22 |
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Juneteenth
A Day to Remember
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06/20/22 |
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Miah Is the 21st Century Eppie
A Hand Is Put Into Theirs….
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06/17/22 |
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There is a Teapot in Orbit Around the Sun…
It Was Mentioned in Ancient Texts
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06/15/22 |
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The Trinity of Evil
Monkeys See as Monkeys Do
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06/10/22 |
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Which Memorial Day Should Be Observed?
It Is an Either/Or Question.
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05/30/22 |
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Our Reason for Being
Sweeping Down the Mightiest Walls
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05/16/22 |
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The Battle of the Alamo…
Past, Present, and Future
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05/11/22 |
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I Love Teaching…
Here in Myanmar or Anywhere
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05/09/22 |
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Ti Ti, the Driven
An Exceptional Young Lady
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05/04/22 |
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Grasping Reality
While My Clock Is Ticking
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04/29/22 |
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A Backed-Up Sewer
Created a Parable
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04/27/22 |
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We Are All Greeks
Some To a Much Lesser Extent
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04/25/22 |
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Diversity Visas
What’s That All About, Alfie?
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04/24/22 |
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Acclimating to the New World
In Mt. Lebanon, Taunggyi, and Crown Point
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04/20/22 |
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Building Castles in the Sky
Pushing the Limits of Possibility
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04/13/22 |
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Heaven and Hell
What’s It All About, Alfie
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04/08/22 |
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Ti Ti’s Yogi-ism
“It’s Like Déjà Vu All Over Again.”
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04/06/22 |
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I Have Miles to Go
Before I Sleep
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04/04/22 |
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Seeing the Future
At Least Three Times
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03/30/22 |
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My Family in Myanmar:
A Sequel to What’s It All About
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03/28/22 |
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The Problem with Yes-Men
Who Say Yes All the Time
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03/23/22 |
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Ginger and I
What’s It All About and Why?
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03/21/22 |
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Children and War
Ukraine and Myanmar
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03/18/22 |
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Ti Ti, the Teacher
Of Her Classmates and Me
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03/16/22 |
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Two Views of the Ides of March
One for Caesar and One for My Family
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03/14/22 |
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The Helter-Skelter Mindset1
Locally and Globally
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03/09/22 |
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Two Military Leaders
Parker and Lee
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03/04/22 |
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A Tale of Two Leaders:
Address Their Rivals
|
03/02/22 |
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Unintended Consequences
From Easter Island
|
02/28/22 |
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If Everything Around You Seems Dark…
Look Again. You May Be the Light.
|
02/26/22 |
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Putin’s Legacy
Gilgamesh’s Lesson
|
02/23/22 |
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History Is Repetitious
Then and Now
|
02/21/22 |
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“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 |
|
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
But the Backstory Is More Important
|
01/07/22 |
|
Beware of the Mongolian Death Worm
In Both Mongolia and America
|
01/05/22 |
|
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 |
|
The Graduate…
The Canine Version
|
12/22/21 |
|
The Operation Was Successful
But No Microchip Was Found
|
12/17/21 |
|
Free To Be Me…
Somewhat
|
12/15/21 |
|
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 |
|
My Extended Family
You Can See Her Painting.
|
11/15/21 |
|
It Starts with Education…
And Ends with Reform.
|
11/10/21 |
|
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 |
|
My Takeaway
From the Great Chicago Fire
|
10/08/21 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Revisiting Gilgamesh
A Teaching Moment
|
09/17/21 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Sir Gawain, the Knight
Doing What a Knight Does
|
08/01/21 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Trump In 3-D
Dumb, Delusional, and Despicable
|
06/16/21 |
|
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 |
|
Bamboo vs. Papyrus
Fake News vs. Truth |
05/17/21 |
|
Reincarnation of Ra-Ra…
Reincarnation of Ra-Ra… |
05/14/21 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 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 |
|
Teaching Moments TodayAnd Teaching Moments for the Future |
03/15/21 |
|
A Tale of Two Countries And a Present-Day Theme and Variation of Life |
03/03/21 |
|
We Live in Two Different WorldsChoose Wisely Your World |
02/05/21 |
|
The Pandas and My PoohAnd Other Followers of Gilgamesh |
02/03/21 |
|
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 |
|
Seeing Ourselves as Others See UsIn This Case, Ti Ti Seeing Herself |
01/08/21 |
|
An Old White Guy Explains RacismAnother Teaching Moment |
01/04/21 |
|
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 |
|
Achilles’ HeelThen and Now |
12/16/20 |
|
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 |
|
The Importance of the Sound of Music…According to Nietzsche and Me |
10/26/20 |
|
The Giving and GettingBoth Parties Benefit |
10/21/20 |
|
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 |
|
Masks Matter…To Some |
09/16/20 |
|
Two PoemsBy Two Ladies |
09/14/20 |
|
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 |
|
There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming |
08/07/20 |
|
A Teaching MomentWhile Walking Ginger |
07/31/20 |
|
Egoism vs AltruismThere is a Better Way |
07/27/20 |
|
Ti TiMy Granddaughter and Poet Laurate |
07/24/20 |
|
"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.”
|
07/20/20 |
|
The Brighter Side of My LifeDue to a Serendipitous Moment |
07/15/20 |
|
A Tribute to SnowMy Granddaughter in Myanmar |
07/08/20 |
|
A Tribute to Ti Ti The Young Lady |
07/06/20 |
|
Another of Santayana’s Teaching Moment Maybe We Will Learn
This Time |
06/24/20 |
|
The Long-Neck WomenA Tradition in Myanmar |
06/24/20 |
|
An Open-Letter to the WorldTimes They Are
a-Changin' |
06/05/20 |
|
Living in the New NormalOur New World Order |
05/29/20 |
|
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 |
|
Ballooning Over BaganWith My Family |
05/06/20 |
|
Ti Ti…The Amazing Young Lady |
04/29/20 |
|
Taung Kwe PagodaAn Out of the World Location |
04/27/20 |
|
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 |
|
Regarding Dancing with CoronavirusCampbell’s Five
Commandments
|
03/25/20 |
|
Let’s Make a DealThanks to Modafinil |
03/23/20 |
|
A Teaching MomentFor Today and the Future |
03/18/20 |
|
We Face Two PandemicsBoth Need Immediate Attention
|
03/11/20 |
|
Think Before You ActThen Dare Greatly |
03/09/20 |
|
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 |
|
Mr. ChipsAn Updated Version |
02/26/20 |
|
Angry Old MenThere is an Alternative |
02/21/20 |
|
What Drives MeBack Then and Now |
02/19/20 |
|
GingerPart 3 of a 4 Part Series |
02/05/20 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Theseus and Me
A Ball of String or Modafinil
|
10/02/19
|
|
Icarus and Trump
On Flying Too Low
|
09/30/19
|
|
Autotelic
Vincent, Me, and Modafinil
|
09/27/19
|
|
Vaping vs Guns
That is the Question
|
09/23/19
|
|
Perspective
What You See Is What You Get.
|
09/20/19
|
|
Plagiarism
Sharpie-Gate
|
09/11/19
|
|
Modafinil—
The Pill that Stopped My Meandering
|
09/04/19
|
|
Troll’s Tongue
Or Troll’s Tail
|
09/02/19
|
|
My Yearning for Faraway
Places…
That I’ve Never Been or Will See Again
|
08/26/19
|
|
My Wonder Drug
Modafinil
|
08/23/19
|
|
A Teaching Moment
“Catch the Trade Winds in Your Sails”
|
08/21/19
|
|
Either/Or…Part 2
I Can Live with a Dent
|
08/19/19
|
|
Trump and White
Supremacy
The Torch Has Been Passed to a New Generation
|
08/09/19
|
|
My Next
Adventure:
The Die is Cast
|
08/02/19
|
|
Jack's 9th Birthday
Gifts from Famous People
|
07/31/19
|
|
Owen’s 7th Birthday
Gifts from Famous People
|
07/29/19
|
|
Ginger, King
of the
Mountain
Taught 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
Summer
Without Air Conditioning
|
07/17/19
|
|
And the Winner Is….
Who Will Get the Nobel Prize for Peace?
|
07/15/19
|
|
Leo Tolstoy
What He Learned About Communication
|
07/01/19
|
|
Music as a Unifying Force
Also for Oneself
|
06/28/19
|
|
My Family Escaped
From the Jurassic Park in Myanmar
|
06/21/19
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Carl Sagan
The World Learned Much from Him
|
05/06/19
|
|
Wanderlust
Travel with No Regret
|
05/01/19
|
|
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
|
|
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern
Contacting Clarence Page
|
04/12/19
|
|
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern
Contacting Rod Stewart
|
04/10/19
|
|
Lord of the Dance
From Three Perspectives
|
04/05/19
|
|
Scared!
Seen as a Teaching Moment
|
04/08/19
|
|
Coffin Bridge…
Build What You Need
|
04/01/19
|
|
Vocation of An Old Man…
Being a Bridge Builder
|
03/29/19
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
This Essay Addresses Alfie
What’s It All About?
|
01/28/19
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Looking at Life
From Both Sides Now
|
1/7/19
|
|
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
|
|
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 Family
I Agree with John Lewis |
12/17/18
|
|
Mini-Me and Dr. Evil…
Then and Now
|
12/14/18
|
|
The Magnificent Seven…
My Dream Team
|
12/07/18
|
|
What’s It Like Being a Neanderthal?
Most of Us Have Some Neanderthal DNA
|
12/03/18
|
|
From Mud
To Macadam
|
11/30/18
|
|
"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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Teaching Students
And Learning as a Teacher
|
09/24/18
|
|
A Noble Person…
Meets Another Noble Person
|
09/17/18
|
|
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
|
|
Be a Dreamer....
And Never Quit Dreaming.
|
08/10/18
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Snow, the Virtuoso
Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev
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08/06/18
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The Ripple Effect…
“…Can Sweep Down the Mightiest Walls.”
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07/23/18
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Eppie…
Then and Now
|
07/20/18
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The Weaker Sex
Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex
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07/11/18
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If I Fail…
I Will While Daring Greatly
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07/06/18
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It Is a Matter of Either / Or…
Lady Liberty or Donald the Dumb, Despicable, and Dishonest.
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07/04/18
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Possible Explanations of Death
A Personal Apocalypse
|
06/29/18
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Teach Your Children Well
Lasko and Trump They are Coming To Get You….
|
06/22/18
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Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty
Having Fun Without PaPa Al
|
06/20/18
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Clarity About Dancing
Being Arthur Murray in the Real World
|
06/11/18
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The House of Fear
And the Orange Pips
|
06/08/18
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The Goddess Ganga
The Transcendence of Reality
|
06/06/18
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Ti Ti and Her Family
My Assistants in Myanmar
|
05/28/18
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Who Are Your Mentors?
Here Are Mine
|
05/21/18
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Ten Years and Counting
What a Difference a Dance Makes
|
05/18/18
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758 Horns of a Dilemma
The House of Cards
|
05/16/18
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Forrester and Jamal
You and I
|
05/11/18
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Projection
Lock Him Up
|
05/07/18
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A Wrinkle in Time
Thinking Outside the Box
|
04/25/18
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Dear PaPa Al.....
Dear Ti Ti
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04/16/18
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Frederick Douglass
A Better Man Than I
|
04/13/18
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Bobby’s Suggestion About My Problems…
A School in Taunggyi, Myanmar
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04/06/18
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Sherlock Holmes In Washington
While We Drank Ginger Grog
|
04/04/18
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Easter Island
In the Past and Future
|
04/02/18
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My Follow-Up…
To My Email To Ti Ti
|
03/19/18
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Marner and Eppie
Me and the Girls
|
03/16/18
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The Question Is…
How Will You Be Remembered?
|
02/26/18
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An Age of Revolution
If We But Know What To Do With It
|
02/16/18
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My Heart Issues
Both Hearts
|
02/14/18
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Having a Purpose
Carpe Diem
|
02/12/18
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The Widow’s Mite
And the Rich Donald the Dumb
|
02/09/18
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The Water Horse of Loch Ness
And Our Water Horses of Life
|
02/07/18
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The Art of Asking Questions…
About Which You Know the Answers
|
02/05/18
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A Shopping Spree
With My Three Granddaughters
|
02/02/18
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Moh Moh, Tin Tin, and Me
We Are the Incarnations of Bobby
|
01/31/18
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Dressed to Kill
Ginger and I Watched Another Sherlock Holmes Mystery
|
01/29/18
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I Failed
For the Time Being
|
01/26/18
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What I Learned In High School
Applies To This Moment In Time
|
01/24/18
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Lesson Learned About Dreaming
I Learned from Bobby
|
01/22/18
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We Are Family
Versus Racism
|
01/19/18
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Bobby the Runt
Turned into Bobby the Leader
|
01/17/18
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The Best Week of My Life…
Occurred While I Was in Burma
|
01/12/18
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Terror by Night
The Third of our Date and Dinner
|
01/08/18
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My Thoughts about the Meaning of Life
My Perspective from My Twilight Years
|
01/05/18
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Ginger's World...
Blends with My World
|
01/03/18
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America
As Bobby, Moh Moh, and the Jazz Singer See It
|
12/25/17
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The Scarlet Claw
A Date Night Movie
|
12/18/17
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Doing the Dance...
Fathoming the Unfathomable
|
12/11/17
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Ginger's World...
Blends with My World
|
12/06/17
|
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Confucius Said...
But We Haven’t Listened
|
12/04/17
|
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Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock...
Remember the Past or Repeat It.
|
11/29/17
|
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The Big Fib:
"I'm, like, a really smart person."
|
11/27/17
|
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The Many Michelangelo Painters of the Cave
The Renaissance of the Paleolithic Period
|
11/13/17
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The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me
Ginger and Don Quixote
|
11/10/17
|
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The Reason Behind...
Everything
|
11/08/17
|
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The Balfour Declaration
One Explanation for the Mess in the Middle East
|
11/01/17
|
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Another Fake News Item
War of the Worlds
|
10/30/17
|
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Fake News...
Of the Italian Renaissance
|
10/25/17
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Live in the Moment...
Plan for the Future
|
10/20/17
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Ginger and Santayana
Remember the Past
|
10/09/17
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Lawrence of Arabia
One of My Mentors
|
10/06/17
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Ti Ti
A Reason for Being
|
10/02/17
|
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Ginger and I
Promises To Keep and Miles To Go Before We Sleep
|
09/29/17
|
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Ginger
AKA Longshanks
|
09/27/17
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Mr. Lee and Mr. Rotteveel
Two Stories: About When I Was Young and When I Am Old
|
09/22/17
|
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The Double-Axe
A Symbol of My Identity
|
09/15/17
|
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The Hollow Man
Who Wears Long Ties
|
09/04/17
|
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When Dreams Aren’t Realized
What Should You Do?
|
09/01/17
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Ginger
And the Issue of Kissing
|
08/30/17
|
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Minnows or Manhood
Or Scent of a Woman....
|
08/28/17
|
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Akhenaten...
My Mentor
|
08/25/17
|
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Get Educated—
Travel
|
08/23/17
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Essay with No Words
But Look At My Eyes
|
08/21/17
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“Better Angels of Our Nature”
In America, Mexico, and Burma
|
08/19/17
|
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Clarence Page and Donald the Dumb—
The President of Trump University
|
08/18/17
|
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Draining the Swamp...
And Adding to the Swamp
|
08/14/17
|
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To Attach or Not to Attach
That Is the Question
|
08/11/17
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Ti Ti and I
A Most Haunting Relationship
|
08/04/17
|
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Macbeth...
Guilt Spills Itself for Fear of Being Spilt
|
08/02/17
|
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The Pentagon Papers...
Then and Now
|
07/31/17
|
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Ginger
And Her Unconditional Love
|
07/28/17
|
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Just Another Lie
Of the Liar-In-Chief
|
07/21/17
|
|
Oppie
The Scientist and the Philosopher
|
07/17/17
|
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Just Drop Me Off
And Ginger’s Toy Dog
|
07/14/17
|
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Rage, Rage...
Against the Pissing Pug
|
07/10/17
|
|
What Did I Learn...
From Vinegar Joe
|
07/05/17
|
|
I Pledge Allegiance
To Donald the Dumb
|
07/03/17
|
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Impeachment of Trump
And the Tower of Babel
|
06/30/17
|
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Donald the Dumb’s Dilemma
Falling from Great Heights
|
06/21/17
|
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The Benefit of Failed Dreams
The Dalai Lama’s Oxymoron
|
06/19/17
|
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Teaching Donald the Dumb
There Is No Happiness Where There Is No Wisdom
|
06/16/17
|
|
The Ides of June
And Religious Ties
|
06/14/17
|
|
“Grace Under Pressure”
The Way to be a Leader
|
06/12/17
|
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First and Last Witch Hunt...
The Work of the Village Idiots
|
06/09/17
|
|
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
|
|
HMS Terror, HMS Erebus, Global Warming…
Or Nonsense from Those Godless Chinese Communists
|
05/26/17
|
|
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
|
|
Class, Easter Ham, and Kayaking...
The Morphing of My World
|
05/15/17
|
|
Three Blind Mice…
And Bloody Mary
|
05/08/17
|
|
Brexit vs Scoxit
The Death Blow to the British Empire
|
05/01/17
|
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To Become…
What You Might Have Been
|
04/28/17
|
|
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
|
|
Life Is a Bowl of Cherries
Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
|
04/14/17
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
A Tweet to God...
A Tweet from James Baldwin
|
03/20/17
|
|
Crowd Size
Size Isn't Critical, But the Truth Is
|
03/15/17
|
|
On Riding to Samara
Then and Now....
|
03/10/17
|
|
Invictus
Thank You, Mrs. Davis
|
03/06/17
|
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A Dog's Purpose
The Person's Purpose
|
03/03/17
|
|
P.T. Barnum Has Returned to Life
What Goes Around, Comes Around
|
02/27/17
|
|
Robert the Bruce
I'll Drink to Him!
|
02/17/17
|
|
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
|
|
Winfield Scott
And Where I Live
|
01/25/17
|
|
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
|
|
Step Beyond the Impossible Wall
Learning from the Mongols
|
12/28/16
|
|
Mentor Tell You Something About You
The Value of Post-it Notes
|
12/09/16
|
|
Deplorable...
Defining the Definition
|
11/25/16
|
|
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
|
|
The Lady, Bobby, and Bagan
Triangulation Process
|
11/14/16
|
|
Moby Dick Found
But Not in a Book
|
10/19/16
|
|
Resurrecting Dashed Dreams
By Continuing to Dream
|
10/17/16
|
|
I Challenge the Trim Trump
To Test His Stamina Against Mine
|
10/03/16
|
|
The Fighting Téméraire
Explained My Nostalgia to Me
|
09/21/16
|
|
Why Do I Care?
More to the Point, Why Doesn't Everyone Care?
|
09/16/16
|
|
The Meltdown of the Donald
As America Watches
|
09/12/16
|
|
Moh Moh Spoke
And She Sounded Like Don Quixote
|
09/09/16
|
|
Return to Myanmar
Dream Big
|
09/02/16
|
|
Trying and Failing...
Is Better than Failing without Trying
|
08/26/16
|
|
Listening to My Mentors
And Dreaming Impossible Dreams
|
08/19/16
|
|
The Terrorism Trifecta
Three More Dances with Death
|
08/12/16
|
|
Bobby Kennedy
Still Reaches Out to Us.
|
07/29/16
|
|
The Queen's Haunting...
Bohemian Rhapsody
|
07/27/16
|
|
My Love Letters
They Must Be Written
|
07/22/16
|
|
We Shall Overcome
A Belief Amid Darkness
|
07/18/16
|
|
Prediction of Clinton's Running Mate
And Her Running Mate Is....
|
07/08/16
|
|
Last Words
Or Don Quixote's Joists with Windmills
|
07/04/16
|
|
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
|
|
The Angel Spoke...
And I Listened.
|
06/10/16
|
|
The Thinkers Three
Jack, Owen, and Me
|
06/06/16
|
|
The Donald
The Relationship Between Ignorance and Knowledge
|
05/20/16
|
|
Mr. Turner
The Dualism of Feelings
|
05/06/16
|
|
Morphing of the Flu with Polio
A Strange Juxtaposition
|
04/29/16
|
|
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
|
|
Learning from My Mentor
A Knight-Errant On His Deathbed
|
03/28/16
|
|
On Seeing the Light
Chuck, Paul, and Me
|
03/04/16
|
|
Two Roads in the Wood
Choose Wisely
|
02/26/16
|
|
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
|
|
Buddha's Strange Parable...
Which We Need to Understand
|
02/15/16
|
|
The Value of Dreaming
About My List of Dulcineas
|
02/12/16
|
|
Another Dancer
David Hume
|
02/01/16
|
|
Revitalizing My Brain
After Winding Up in ICU
|
01/25/16
|
|
"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun."
Randy Pausch is Correct
|
01/15/16
|
|
The Little Match Girl
And The Golden Statue
|
01/11/16
|
|
The Gift of an Angel
It is More About My Feelings
|
01/06/16
|
|
Pathétique
Moving Music
|
12/16/15
|
|
Doing the Dance Again
How to Address Both New Dances
|
12/11/15
|
|
I Know Who I Am...
And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me
|
12/04/15
|
|
Responses to Paris
Both Are Vital
|
11/25/15
|
|
What a Feeling
And It Is a Great Feeling
|
11/20/15
|
|
The Campbell Cookie Jar
The Tie In Between the Past and the Present
|
10/28/15
|
|
Doubling Down...
To Make Dreams Come True
|
10/19/15
|
|
The Old Pine Table
An Object of Renewal and Rebirth
|
10/14/15
|
|
It's Confession Time...
And It Isn't Sunday
|
10/09/15
|
|
The Mahogany Bench
A Place for Dreaming....
|
10/07/15
|
|
The Little Wooden Box
An Updated Pandora's Box
|
09/30/15
|
|
A Great Dancer with Death
A Sobering Experience
|
09/21/15
|
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Putting the Pieces Together
The Joy of Coming of Age
|
09/18/15
|
|
The Tulip Pitcher
A Picture of Springtime
|
09/16/15
|
|
The Felt Picture
A Picture of Hopefulness
|
09/09/15
|
|
A Second Look at Life
Toward the End of Life
|
09/07/15
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago,
Which I Finally Fully Understand
|
07/10/15
|
|
Alan Seeger
And His Dance with Death
|
07/04/15
|
|
What I Learned About Life...
From Facing Down the Dragon
|
06/29/15
|
|
Wading Through the Water of Life
Advice by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
|
06/24/15
|
|
Career Opportunity...
Being a Gladiator
|
06/19/15
|
|
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
|
|
Slaughterhouse-Five
Vonnegut's Dance with Death
|
06/01/15
|
|
Dancing with Death
Allows You to Live
|
05/22/15
|
|
Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens
How to Avoid the Ghosts
|
05/08/15
|
|
Nepal Then
And Now
|
05/03/15
|
|
"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
|
|
How Do We Learn?
The Lessons in Learning
|
04/13/15
|
|
Ode to Joy
In the Midst of Pain
|
03/27/15
|
|
Lead Death as You Dance with Death
It Will Change Your Life
|
03/24/15
|
|
Reliving Many Bloody Sundays
Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement
|
03/07/15
|
|
"All Mankind is Divided Into Three Classes..."
Some Aren't Buried Until They Are Seventy-five
|
02/23/15
|
|
Obama's Golden Opportunity
On Leaving a Legacy
|
02/13/15
|
|
Suffering Yields Success
Worrying Yields Warts
|
01/14/14
|
|
"Every Child is an Artist."
The Question is What Remains in Adulthood?
|
01/12/15
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915
"I Never Died," Says He.
|
11/19/14
|
|
From Witches to Marrying Monkeys
Conservatives Have an Answer
|
11/10/14
|
|
To Thine Own Self Be True...
An Ethical First Step
|
10/24/14
|
|
A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great
"Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal."
|
10/17/14
|
|
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
|
|
Pushing Oneself...
What I Learned from T. S. Eliot
|
09/14/14
|
|
Darkest Before Dawn
A Logical Disconnect that Is True
|
08/15/14
|
|
Come Alive...
Before You Die.
|
07/24/14
|
|
Orwell and Scottish Independence
Or Smell the Heather and Vote for Independence
|
07/18/14
|
|
Burma-Shave...
And Seeing the Light
|
07/07/14
|
|
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
|
|
Jack and Owen
Novice 21st Century Johnny Appleseeds
|
06/01/14
|
|
Leaving a Legacy...
A Concern of a 71-Year Old.
|
05/18/14
|
|
Learning to Play Chess from a Master
What Jack and Owen Will Learn from Me.
|
05/02/14
|
|
Faulkner's Lesson of Life...
Even When the Last Ding-dong of Doom has Clanged.
|
04/17/14
|
|
Connecting the Dots...
On Your Way to Eldorado
|
09/09/12
|