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100 Years of Solitude
If you have not read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece I would commend it to you. I just finished reading it again after a twenty-year...
Doug Weiss
Mar 3, 20243 min read
Déjà vu
Walking through the National Holocaust Museum a few weeks ago was a somber and disturbing experience, not just for the reasons one would...
Doug Weiss
Feb 25, 20244 min read
Catastrophizing
I learned a new word today, catastrophizing. It describes a mental health condition, a thought pattern if you will that leads people to...
Doug Weiss
Feb 18, 20244 min read
Principles
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about the divisions in our country. It is hard to remain objective, to see the other...
Doug Weiss
Feb 11, 20247 min read
Exemplars
If you spend any time at all on social media—and I confess I do, you have undoubtedly seen your fair share of posts displaying some...
Doug Weiss
Feb 4, 20243 min read
Parody
One of my favorite Saturday afternoon Television shows back in the early 90’s was a Science Fiction comedy that lampooned truly horrible...
Doug Weiss
Jan 28, 20243 min read
What's Cooking?
A recent post on social media asked the question, who inspired you to learn to cook? I learned two things from the comments in reply. A...
Doug Weiss
Jan 21, 20244 min read
Adaptations
Not long ago I had the pleasure of engaging in an online debate about the feasibility of adapting a certain literary work to the screen. ...
Doug Weiss
Jan 14, 20243 min read
Rhetoric
In the early 1970’s a Stanford University Psychology professor, Phillip Zimbardo, conducted a now infamous experiment that examined the...
Doug Weiss
Jan 7, 20244 min read
Irresolutions
As we usher in the New Year it is once again that time when many of us make promises to ourselves to turn over a new leaf—to remedy past...
Doug Weiss
Dec 31, 20233 min read
The Grinch
We are nearing that time of the year when spirits benign and malevolent tend to make their presence known. Perhaps you think me Grinch...
Doug Weiss
Dec 24, 20238 min read
Redux
In the lead up to the holidays I found myself a little short for time so I have decided that it might be fun to repost the very first...
Doug Weiss
Dec 17, 20234 min read
What Sets Us Apart
Regardless of where you stand in the current political divide, and assuming it isn’t at the extreme ends of the spectrum, what sets us...
Doug Weiss
Dec 10, 20234 min read
Business As Usual
A friend of mine once quipped that the evening news broadcast went as follows: “ Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Here is the news. ...
Doug Weiss
Dec 3, 20234 min read
Anachronism
Just in time for the annual changing of the clocks, I read an article in my news feed the other day reporting that a school division in...
Doug Weiss
Nov 26, 20234 min read
The Root of All Evil
Most of us are familiar with the epigram that money is the root of all evil but how many know that the expression is a truncated version...
Doug Weiss
Nov 19, 20233 min read
Free Will
Whether human beings have free will is a question that elicits fierce debate not only in the realm of religious and philosophical...
Doug Weiss
Nov 12, 20233 min read
OM
At the risk of dating myself, think back to 1968 when the Beatles fell under the spell of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and took up...
Doug Weiss
Nov 5, 20235 min read
On Becoming
As a young child I spent a good deal of time wondering how my life might unfold. Like so many children of my generation the adults I...
Doug Weiss
Oct 29, 20233 min read
Story Tellers
Story telling is one of those attributes which define us as humans. It is a means we use to convey our myths, our faith, and our...
Doug Weiss
Oct 22, 20233 min read
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