Random thoughts on life

In our nation, we often value toughness more than gentleness. We like our leaders tough. We like our athletes tough. We like our movie protagonists tough. We don’t even mind when they are flawed. Flawed is fine; we all are. But I feel we used to gravitate toward tough guys whose compass still pointed somewhere toward fairness and compassion.

My blog has been quiet this week and not for lack of things to talk about. I have a dozen pieces in the works, all on important topics....

There is so much going on in the world of politics. But today I really want to take my monthly break from posting about that to instead...

I will get back to politics and policy soon enough. The potential topics are endless and important. But lately I’ve been thinking quite a...

There are three places on this Earth where I do my best thinking, well two on Earth and one above it.   The first is walking a beach…any...