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I received a message today from a friend I lost track of some years ago. We met at a particularly fraught time, and our friendship was...

My gentlemen's book club is reading a novel by Daniel Mason, entitled North Woods . I described it to a friend by comparing it to one of...

A waggish friend of mine once described Television news this way: "Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen, here is today's news. It's worse...

Whether it applies to work, life, politics, or conflict, received wisdom tells us we should always have a plan B. And what is plan B? ...

Perhaps you've heard the expression. While it is a bit glib, there is a great deal of truth to the aphorism. As scientists continue to...

Not so long ago the term inflection point was given new life by the tech industry gathering to itself a gravity that is questionable. ...

It is often said that we humans learn best through experience. Certainly we seek those with experience to lead, whether it is in work,...

As sometimes happens, an episode of LoveLife.digital , the podcast series Alvean Lyons and I created, began playing on the car audio the...

Self-reliance is an enduring theme of the American zeitgeist. Our stories, the mythology that attends our history as a nation, and the...

Say what you will about the past four years and the man who presided over the leadership of our country. Whatever you may think of him...

The seasons and their changes have long been a subject for poets and songwriters endowing each with properties that parallel our lives. ...

People argue for many reasons, most of them unjustified but in some cases disagreements become personal, and inevitably hurtful. If this...

In my forties, I took up Racquetball following an automobile accident that permanently inhibited my ability to serve a tennis ball or...

Last year at this time I posted the following. Several folks asked to see it again and so here it is but with some amendments in light of...

At this time of year and particularly in the wake of our recent election, we are in the midst of a transition, though to what is the...

Help me understand. The gap between our nation's wealthiest and poorest is at an extreme. Many cannot afford to own a home, put gas in...

In the wake of the election, I've been reading quite a few comments--or perhaps I should describe them as laments regarding the outcome....

It seems that folks of all political stripes are yearning these days for a past that viewed through the selective filter of memory was...

As I suspect may be the case for many of you, the volume of email and texts I've been receiving for the past several months is staggering....

A friend of mine just celebrated his 94th Birthday. That in itself is sufficiently rare to warrant comment but it isn't the entire story....