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If you’re looking for some scandalous tidbits or lascivious life tips I am sorry to disappoint you, there are none in this post. In fact...

In the search for peace, contentment or enlightenment solitude can be a friend. Whatever you seek, even those things that can only be...

Quite a few years ago I was introduced to a planning discipline that had originally been developed by the Royal Dutch Shell company as a...

I grew up in a family that argued, often, passionately, and about anything. Most of it was friendly banter, only occasionally did...

There’s an old joke about a management consultant who, while driving down a rural lane, spots a farmer holding a pig in his arms as the...

Over the past few weeks, I've watched two television dramas that explored the possibility of a future in which mankind is finally freed...

As Labor Day approaches parents and children across our country are preparing to return to school. For many this year, the prospect of...

How many times have we said, I believe, in asserting what is a closely held opinion, whether or not we have any first-hand knowledge or...

Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” introduced the phrase “Good fences make good neighbors”. It’s a tricky bit of wording that suggests...

A great deal of the rhetoric we hear from the right wing these days has to do with a deep-seated fear of those whose identity, and in...

The extremism of political polarization that has become the norm today is no stranger to matters of religious faith and practice. ...

This week, yet another article in a scientific journal reports on the reasons we are attracted to some people and not others. I’ll spare...

Recently, I had the opportunity to re-visit the original site of the Chautauqua movement in upstate New York. At its height, the...

As we celebrate America’s independence this weekend it seems fitting that we should remember the enormous sacrifice of life and the...

Perhaps you are familiar with Joseph Campbell's works exploring the great themes of mythology among which and most central to every...

Reviewing a podcast I recorded several years ago with my colleague, Alvean Lyons, I was reminded that the greatest predictor of...

A conversation with a friend the other day has me thinking about change management, an admittedly unusual topic for a post but bear with...

For those of you who may not be familiar with the word, or anyone needing a cool new Scrabble killer, a Quantum Bogosort is “a...

As I near one of those milestones signifying the years since my birth, I’ve been thinking a good deal about where I am in life—or more to...

In the aftermath of a week of thunderstorms and fog I spent an hour sitting out in the sunshine the other day talking with a good friend...