The United States is caught up in the hysterical frenzy of politics right now. Being the ratings whores they are, the media couldn’t have...

About twenty years ago, my daughter Alex and I were living in Marin County above San Francisco. During this time I became addicted to...

Anyone who's a parent can probably concur with me. You'll do anything for your kid to get good grades in school. In a perfect world it...

Our true destiny is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their...

ORIGINAL PUBLISH DATE: 10.15.2016 "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's...

Greg Owen never thought of himself as a leader; and I'm sure today he still doesn't. But he a man who who saw an opportunity to help...

In Giving Permission,(posted December 20, 2018), I did a deep dive into what I believe it means to have a community of inclusion; one...

In one of my last pieces, Growing an Evolved Society, I strongly suggested we take the resources and connections we have and think like...

One of the most difficult circumstances affecting families is the care of an elderly member. I remember when I was growing up in North...

“Our challenge is not bringing order to successful chaos but creating successful chaos within a well-ordered failure.” ~ Charles Marohn,...

We assume our way of life in 2018; one of governments and states, and the endless media coverage of their every detail are the pinnacle...

About ten years ago I took a road trip from Los Angeles to visit my parents in Montana. After a couple of weeks, I drove back via my...

Graham Nash (the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) has described Cass Elliot (the Mamas and Papas) as “the Gertrude Stein of...

Today is the anniversary of my introduction to chemotherapy after I was diagnosed with CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukemia). One year ago...

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll Twenty years ago I coined the phrase ‘On the Road to...

“We have a new bigotry in America. We don’t want to be around anyone who disagrees with us about anything.”~ Bill Clinton at the 2013...

On June 25 in 1876, two mortal enemies found that the differences they had between them paled in comparison to the a threat both...

“Fuck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob” is a layered statement in that everyone has an amoebic or fluid feeling inside of them — it’s a matter...

Updated March 14, 2022: I wrote the body of this post eleven years ago. It's every bit as applicable today as it was then - maybe more...

During the mid 1800s Charles Darwin upended both the scientific and religious worlds by releasing his seminal theory on biological...