Category Personal Essay

Playing the Long Game – A Personal Reflection

[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] I have stopped worrying about trying to accumulate personal accomplishments. When I was young, I was an ass, driven to survive chaos and dysfunction. By the time I was a… Continue Reading →

Laughter

[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] I am a father, grandfather, and officially a senior citizen. Yet even at this age, I still hold memories of my own father, who passed many years ago. When I… Continue Reading →

Pendulum

[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] A pendulum can be soothing to watch as the rhythm of the back, and forth motion sets a resonate pace. And if it is accompanied by a ‘tick-tock’ from an… Continue Reading →

You Should Be Ashamed

Last week I attended a rally, a protest of sorts, that came up suddenly in response to the firing of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General and the appointment of a replacement out of the defined order of succession. This is… Continue Reading →

Evolution of Evolution

[Listen to the audio version by using the player below.] Charles Darwin taught us much about evolution. His voyages, research, and observations provided the basis for his conviction of the common origins of Man with other species and brought ‘natural… Continue Reading →

Well Done

The end of a career can be a bittersweet thing, especially for a teacher. It often is a deeply personal profession and so it has been with Marcia. After seeing her own four children into school, she worked late on… Continue Reading →

Unintended Consequences and the Fight Against Human Trafficking – A Personal Experience

We’ve been traveling to Disney World for many years since our children were young and continued with our grandchildren. This spring, my wife and I went again, this time with our 5-year-old grandson. It was planned months in advance as… Continue Reading →

Fiction By Any Other Name Is Still Fiction – An Opinion

The concept of legal personhood for an organization reportedly dates back to Roman law. In our present experience, we often think of the concept of a fictitious person as it applies to corporations, but it can also apply to governments… Continue Reading →

Really? – An Opinion

I admit that I don’t watch Fox News, – I can’t take it and have even gone so far on a business trip as to check out of a hotel that constantly aired it in all of the common areas…. Continue Reading →

On Thinking – Remembering a Lesson

Back in the 70’s at Penn State, I had an English teacher by the name of Mrs. Smythe. I remember her for two reasons. Firstly, she could never get my last name right. It’s a relatively simple name with only… Continue Reading →

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