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For the most part, we humans spend a lot of time and energy --to say nothing of resources - on how we present ourselves. Those who do...

It is a tricky headline that could also read as a question, when were we great? But you get the point I am sure. We've been told ad...

I learned a new aphorism the other day: the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Perhaps you may have heard it before but it...

I want to begin with proper attribution. The title of today's post is taken from a wonderful book by Bill Bryson which recounts his hike...

A dear friend of mine, now sadly departed, once remarked that internet marketing reduced to its common denominator consisted of cute cat...

In response to the sudden and totally unexpected absence of farm workers to harvest Florida's abundant fruit and vegetable crops,...

Considering the extraordinary volume of mail that the post office handles each day it is nothing short of a miracle that most of it gets...

A recent article in the press cited a decision by the newly seated Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to discontinue free tax...

In my desperate search for a topic this week I hit upon a subject which has bedeviled me for years even as it intrigues me no end. The...

A small gathering the other day with people from my past stirred a number of thoughts and emotions. If we are fortunate we may meet a...

Perhaps at some point in your education or since you may have run across the word--and the meaning behind it. Potlach, for those have...

A popular but completely false parable suggests that a frog placed in a pot of warm water that is slowly raised to the boiling point will...

In recent weeks, my thoughts have frequently turned toward a question that is neither political nor partisan but lies at the heart of...

In the event you are unfamiliar with the term, cosplay, a contraction of costume and play acting, is typically a benign form of grown up...

Students of humanity have observed a pattern that at least as far back as recorded history repeats itself unerringly even to the present...

Not very long ago I wrote a post on consciousness. Admittedly it is a subject about which there are an extraordinary number of theories...

I awakened last night to the sounds of what seemed to be a gentle spring rainstorm, one we badly needed. The morning revealed quite a...

If you have lived more than 15 minutes in this world you have undoubtedly learned this life lesson: the reward for giving up what you...

Extreme partisanship and ideological divides are nothing new in American politics, but at least in my lifetime, cultish worship of...

The other day was a difficult one. I attended a funeral, an occasion which in my advancing years happens with far too much frequency. ...