There was a pair of sisters who each had some sort of commitment that was special and one was one of those much celebrated milestones and the other was an equally as rare occasion and her absence would cause her whole sport team to forfeit their position on the play…

A while back, I wrote a blog post that was basically about people knowing a lot about a lot of things EXCEPT how to hold a conversation. I called it “Knowing Isn’t Half the Battle”. There’s another angle from which to look at that same concept and it’s a bit…

Over the past four weeks, I’ve been working really hard to lose some weight. It’s very telling that I say “lose some weight” as opposed to “increase my fitness”. It tells us that I still have some important “unlearning” to do. (I’ll be coming back to that idea). I’m doing…

If you don’t get paid to police bathrooms or what people wear, then maybe you should mind your own business and keep your hands to yourself…….unlike …

Read BOTH of these articles and then tell me that there’s no such thing as SYSTEMIC RACISM…….I’ll wait. What have we learned? Have we realized, yet that we’re simply repeating history? It’d be great if we were repeating some really proud moment of our history, but we’re not. …

I’ve addressed this topic before……. But as so often happens, after I’ve written a piece, I find someone on social media who was better able to avoid tangents and digressions. Greta Thunberg created quite an outcry of HYSTERICAL, misogynistic men who showed their ego fragility (AND INSECURITY) in the form…

Obviously THESE PEOPLE weren’t properly taught, in school, about the meaning of “Freedom of Speech” as it is delineated in the Constitution of the United States. A flag or banner is as much free speech and protected as such in the Constitution as actual speech. …

Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the US are 13 times greater than they are in France, and 22 times greater than in the European Union as a whole. The US has 23 times the rate of firearm homicide seen in Australia. Dear Gun Owners, We’re not coming for your guns…

Ever since we crawled up onto the land from out of the primordial ooze, we’ve loved telling stories. We told stories about how we came to be and about where we were going. We told stories about how the world worked and how it would end. …