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I am not among those who believe the so-called good old days were either good or worthy of repetition. About the only positive thing I...

In a few days we will celebrate a holiday that in its contemporary form dates back to the Victorian era but has its origins in the Roman...

Scientists have named the phenomenon of involuntary memory after the author Marcel Proust who first coined the term in his novel, In...

We humans have a tendency to view our lives in very linear terms. We make distinctions about past, present and future that are...

Plato’s Cave is a well-known allegory presented in the dialectic entitled Republic. In the course of explaining the philosopher’s...

I had planned to write on another subject this week, but the news that reached me today of the passing of a dear friend, Christine...

Around the time the former Soviet Union was in decline, an advertisement in a news magazine showed a picture of a crowd of East Germans...

If you’re a golfer you know this term, but for those that don’t it means a do over; a repeat shot when the one you took was a flub....

I’ve been thinking about this post a bit. Most of us will be with family or friends on this day so I suspect it will be read, if at all,...

Although not strictly an American phenomenon, the elevation of famous people to cultish levels of worship has moved well beyond strictly...

It seems almost unnecessary to observe that the past decade has witnessed ever escalating divisiveness and confrontation, not solely...

Regular readers of these posts will be familiar with my position on social media. What might have been a tool for improving...

Trust is a slippery thing. Some of us go through life never trusting anyone, convinced that nothing good can come from putting oneself in...

Some years ago, a friend and colleague observed that the industry in which we both worked at the time, Public Broadcasting, defined...

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision that effectively overturned its own earlier position on Roe V Wade, and subsequent actions...

With just a few days to go before the midterm elections you can be sure of two things: an even greater barrage of financial solicitations...

In the course of producing our LoveLife podcast, Alvean Lyons and I have traversed a great many issues regarding relationships. LoveLife...

In the event you may have missed the news, the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, were honored for their “experiments with...

Growing up, one of my favorite hymns was Be Still My Soul. Set to the tune of Finlandia, the hymn’s haunting melody is a perfect vehicle...

One of my favorite comic strips back in the day was Bloom County. If you are not familiar with it, it was a snarky, offbeat commentary...