[Welcome to our annual, excellent Guest Writer Series. Meet contributor #2...] Just like words that play on a reel in my mind, music has always coursed through my veins. I’m not sure why it is that way. Maybe it is because words and music go hand in hand. Or
[Welcome to our annual, excellent Guest Writer Series. Meet contributor #1...] I am currently studying a new modality as a therapist, and it has some amazing insights into the human psyche. The book, Gifts from a Challenging Childhood By Jan Bargstrom introduces these concepts as “the 6 birthrights” that every
As I’ve said before, and no doubt will say again, there are some things I get flat-out wrong. There are also places where my perspective is pretty limited. And then there are the grander moments — the ones where my opinion is off, my view is narrow, and I
So much to say. So many angles. So much that makes up this day, this weekend, these hundreds of years. So let me stay focused—one thread, one refrain—something that helps keep what’s most important, most important as we mark 250 years of this ongoing, imperfect, beautiful experiment…
I repeatedly find myself surprised at the number of people who think only they know the truth. And then I read this, from Larry Sanger, the founder of Wikipedia, in this week’s The Free Press (Note: all emphasis mine)… Twenty-five years ago, I co-founded Wikipedia, arguably the
It’s a slow sports season. The World Cup is underway, the U.S. has held its own, and we’re still 74 days away from the NFL regular season kickoff. For now, Major League Baseball dominates television, while diehards scrape together whatever they can from FIFA, Formula One, golf,
One of the challenges of current day is that many of us believe we know the truth and anyone who does not believe what we believe and react similarly does not know the truth. They are either ignorant or evil. The challenge is that so much news isn’t news;
Every now and then I pen a post that feels like a home run. When all is said and done, blog is loaded, picture looks ok, I do my mental trot around the bases, sitting back, satisfied, feeling as if I’ve done my job well, communicating meaningfully what I
A little over a year ago, we wrote the following: The track meet… Memorial High School junior Austin Metcalf and Centennial High School junior Karmelo Anthony were competing in a morning track meet in Frisco, Texas. It was raining, and Anthony had thus taken cover under the other team’s
What’s with all the bad candidates? Sorry. That sounds harsher than I intend it to. I’m not trying to be disrespectful. I simply don’t believe all people were created to do all things. Hence, not everyone is called to run for elected office. And judging by some
What’s with all the bad candidates? Sorry. That sounds harsher than I intend it to. I’m not trying to be disrespectful. I simply don’t believe all people were created to do all things. Hence, not everyone is called to run for elected office. And judging by some
First, as reported by The New York Times: “For more than a decade, Jesse Ridgway has made a living posting YouTube videos, some personal, to millions of followers. It seemed natural, then, he said, to share that he and his wife, Ashley, had decided to terminate her pregnancy after a