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It is rather a gloomy day as I write this, rainy and cold outside. Fall leaves fill the yard looking less a colorful celebration of the...

An acquaintance asked me the other day why I continue to write these posts. It is a valid question and I hope not an editorial comment...

At the dog park the other day I watched as my grand dog, Lewis, a day glow green football gripped firmly in his mouth, galloped from one...

As I write this post we are fast approaching another one of those holidays that has been transformed by retailers into an absurd...

Not long ago a group of people gathered in anticipation of an apocalyptic event—though in this case, the Q'anon prophesied second coming...

It has been a year or two since I last climbed to the top of a mountain. The location was Arizona, outside Phoenix and the day was...

You’ll be hearing this word a lot over the next few months and quite probably longer. It’s not just because the social media site...

Most of us are familiar with the story of Sisyphus, the tragic figure of Greek mythology sentenced by Zeus to roll a rock to the top of a...

As any reader of these posts knows all too well, I am not a theologian nor am I as widely read as I would wish. Perhaps that I why I...

One of the more fascinating yet bizarre theories to emerge over the last decade or so suggests that human beings are in fact living in a...

A recent photo of an anti-vaxx protester offered a perfect example of the corrosive rhetoric being employed to galvanize public opinion....

Along with a life-threatening pandemic, we are afflicted with an equally insidious malady these days, widespread disinformation and...

In the 70’s I worked for a company that was testing the idea of renting a new home video technology we now know as video cassettes (VHS...

Last week I wrote about deniers—and I wanted to take up that theme again focusing on those who invoke God or Jesus as their ‘vaccine’...

One of the behaviors that has been prominent in recent years is a seemingly irrational form of widespread denial over what should be...

We humans are profoundly occupied with our identities, whether searching for meaning in our lives or inventing our public personae. Who...

Among the many ways we humans are able to distort reality seeking selective confirmation of our opinions is the most prevalent. We are...

It is a curious thing that for a country which prides itself on a sense of individualism, personal liberties, and constitutionally...

A series of recent life challenges and my reaction to them has had me thinking about the mechanisms we employ consciously and too often...

Some years ago I was helping a friend in their garden and we happened upon a small sapling—by chance the sprout of a peach tree that had...