2026
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The Uncaring Decoy Or the Man on the Hill | 08/24/26 |
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I Suffer From Amnesia It Is A Haunting Feeling | 08/14/26 |
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First It Was Minneapolis Merrillville Might Be Next | 08/10/26 |
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Two Mentors on the Yellow Brick Road Roberto Clemente and Steve Jobs | 08/07/26 |
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The Great One... Is a Great Understatement | 07/31/26 |
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If You Are Picking a Mentor Choose Wisely | 07/20/26 |
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What If? A Question We Need To Address | 07/03/26 |
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The History of Rewriting History However, History Remains | 06/29/26 |
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Mark Twain and Traveling A Present-Day Ibn Battuta | 06/26/26 |
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It Started with Obama and Camelot And Branched Out To My Family | 06/22/26 |
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I Am a Knight-Errant.... Who is Dreaming Dreams | 06/19/26 |
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Emperor Norton I Emperor of America and Protector of Mexico | 06/15/26 |
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What Would Robert McCall Do And What Should We Do? | 06/01/26 |
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We Have To Stop This Insanity Before We Forget | 05/04/26 |
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I Want To Remember the Past Two Decades Later | 04/24/26 |
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You’re a Better Man Than I Am, Gunga Din! An Update in Understanding | 04/20/26 |
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Melania Trump’s Speech To the Nation Flooding the Zone | 04/15/26 |
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Between the World and Me A Must Read | 04/13/26 |
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Kierkegaardian Either/Or Sexism and Racism | 04/06/26 |
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No Kings and the Royal We A National Educational Moment | 03/30/26 |
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Wasting Billions of Dollars Here or Abroad | 03/27/26 |
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When Are We Going To Wake Up? We Can in Seconds, If We Think | 03/23/26 |
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St. Patrick's Day Chat with My Irish Setter About Her Canine Patron Saint | 03/18/26 |
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Writing and Rewriting History Then and Now | 03/16/26 |
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The Little One Haunts Me | 03/13/26 |
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The Bells Toll At Another Level | 03/09/26 |
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The Insights of the Political Primate About Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor | 03/06/26 |
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If Orson Welles Were Still Alive America Would Be a Better Place | 03/02/26 |
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Miracle on Ice Verus Disaster with ICE | 02/27/26 |
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Writing and Rewriting History Or Learning About How We Should Live | 02/23/26 |
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My Family and I Were Hurt Now, America Is Hurting...Really Hurting | 02/20/26 |
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Two Bunny Stories Two Studies of Trauma | 02/13/26 |
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Tale of Three Different Dentists in Three Days And the Need for Diversity | 02/06/26 |
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Another What’s It All About Alfie Essay Why Are Some So Macho? | 02/04/26 |
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The Worm Has Turned But Have You? | 02/02/26 |
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I Leave You with the Best of Myself A Simple but Profound Truth | 01/26/26 |
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They Call the Wind Maria And So Do I | 01/19/26 |
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One of My Strange Idiosyncrasies Updating My Privacy Fence | 01/16/26 |
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What If The Basic Question of Life | 01/09/26 |
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Happy Birthday, A Ngal Lay And Many More | 01/05/26 |
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I Felt Like Dr. Brackish Okun During Part of My Sleep Lab | 01/02/26 |
2025
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My Bucket List Finding Joy | 12/31/25 |
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What Did You Do on Christmas? I Watched Song Sung Blue. | 12/26/25 |
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I’ve Got Some Concerns about Life Like Medical Care | 12/24/25 |
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I Love Me. I Think I’m Grand. When I Go To Heaven, I’ll Hold My Hand. | 12/22/25 |
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Where or Where are the Epstein Files? We are Waiting | 12/17/25 |
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Let’s Try To Get This Straight... If Possible | 12/15/25 |
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Casablanca... As Time Goes By | 12/12/25 |
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Ti Ti and I Are Dreamers Dreaming About Canada | 12/10/25 |
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A Litany of Dreaming And a Litany of Banning | 12/03/25 |
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Dreaming Dreams Dashed Dreams | 12/01/25 |
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Clone of Ti Ti The Little One | 11/28/25 |
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The Reason for Writing To Draw Attention to Lies | 11/26/25 |
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Do the Math: 2+2=5 | 11/21/25 |
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Trump Isn’t a Barking Dog But He Is a Whining Dog | 11/19/25 |
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Ginger’s Day at the Dentist A Bonding Moment | 11/17/25 |
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What I Learned from the Arts The Times They Are A-Changin’ | 11/14/25 |
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Now, I Get It In My Twilight Years | 11/03/25 |
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Ginger’s 9th Birthday Then Off To Her Dental Vet | 10/29/25 |
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The Hunt For Red October Then and Now | 10/27/25 |
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Ti Ti and Her Smile... What a Gift | 10/24/25 |
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To Be Or Not to Be King Is More Than a Question for Hamlet | 10/20/25 |
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The Issue of Paying Homage It's a Two-way Street | 10/17/25 |
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The Importance of Remembering the Past Comparisons of Two Autocrats | 10/15/25 |
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Dementia In My Life and in Trump’s Life | 10/13/25 |
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Christopher Hitchens Talks From Heaven Are You Listening, Donald? | 10/06/25 |
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Jimmy Kimmel and the Epstein Files The UN, FCC, and RFK Jr. Conspiracies | 09/29/25 |
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A Satire Is More Than Being Funny The Joke Is On You | 09/26/25 |
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Improving My Learning Curve Regarding Primates and Our Shared Glow of Altruism | 09/22/25 |
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King Charles Attempted To Teach Trump About George Orwell | 09/19/25 |
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The Haunting Question Do You See You? | 09/17/25 |
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Who Is in Epstein’s Little Black Book? One More Name May Be in the Client Book | 09/15/25 |
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Three Doctors Question RFK Jr. Earth One to Earth Two | 09/10/25 |
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When Facing Failure What Can You Do? | 09/08/25 |
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Picking a Leader in America A Kierkegaardian Either/Or Choice | 09/03/25 |
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Narcissism is Trump’s Achilles’ Heel A Troubling Combination | 09/01/25 |
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The Many Faces of Trump A Felon and Friend of Two Other Felons | 08/22/25 |
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Our TACO President Talks the Talk But He is a Chicken When He Walks the Walk | 08/18/25 |
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Being an Equalizer It is Your Choice; Choose Wisely | 08/15/25 |
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I’m Sending Chuck to the White House Then To Mar-a-Lago | 08/13/25 |
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A Dream Became a Nightmare America Needs To Wake Up | 08/11/25 |
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The Parallels Haunt Me Between Dylan Thomas and John Denver | 08/04/25 |
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A Day Laborer Toiling in the Hot Sun Who Fears ICE | 08/01/25 |
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Learning from History Let’s Get Our Dates Correct | 07/30/25 |
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The Sewer Serpent And Draining the Swamp | 07/28/25 |
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Role Models On the Yellow Brick Road Then and Now | 07/23/25 |
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Damned If He Does and Damned If He Doesn’t The Story Behind the Epstein Files | 07/18/25 |
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Ginger’s Quirks With Her ADHD | 07/16/25 |
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Let Me Get This Straight About King Donald | 07/14/25 |
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Independence Day Back Then and Today | 07/04/25 |
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Afraid of Not Dying The Reality of Living | 07/02/25 |
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Immigration 101 A Class that Our TACO President Failed | 06/30/25 |
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My Litany of Must-Dos With Miles To Go Before I Sleep | 06/25/25 |
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We Are Not Kings And the Apple | 06/23/25 |
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The Silence Was Deafening When Ginger Wasn’t Underfoot | 06/16/25 |
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What Troubles Me In My Twilight Years | 06/13/25 |
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The World About Which I Dream Often Isn’t the World in Which I Live. | 06/11/25 |
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Our TACO President Chickening Out Over a Lifetime | 06/04/25 |
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Commencement Speeches Over the Decades | 06/02/25 |
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My Artistic Eye Doesn’t Like an Overcrowded Mess | 05/30/25 |
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The Little One Has Grown Up | 05/28/25 |
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Becoming I Am Legend In My World | 05/26/25 |
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While Gluing Down My Flowerbed Rocks I Chatted with My MAGA Neighbor | 05/23/25 |
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Learning About Vaccines Centuries Ago What I Didn’t Know But Do Now | 05/21/25 |
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Medical Advice from the Head of HHS The Worm Has Turned | 05/19/25 |
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Churchill and Trump The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Times | 05/12/25 |
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Teaching Trump Before He Becomes Pope Pius Trump | 05/09/25 |
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Bobby and Being a Legend Will Help America | 05/07/25 |
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The Less You Have, The More You Give An Important One-Liner | 05/05/25 |
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The Haunting Question Remains What Will You Teach? | 05/02/25 |
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The Reciprocity of Teaching A Mirror Image | 04/30/25 |
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Cave Artists and Jackson Pollock Taught Me About Painting and Life | 04/28/25 |
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Trump Is On the Road Again Caution To the World | 04/23/25 |
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America Is Looking for Mentors But It Isn’t Trump | 04/21/25 |
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History Repeating Itself Unless We Learn From the Past | 04/18/25 |
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The Parable of the Three Female Elephants Will Reveal Who You Are | 04/16/25 |
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Cast Away Awaken Me Who Are the Cast Aways Today? | 04/14/25 |
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Thus Saith the Medical Guru.... Wait, Let Me Get This Straight. | 04/11/25 |
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Maddow and Navarro The Tale of a Washington Shaker and Mover | 04/09/25 |
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Booker’s Summation And My Add-Ons | 04/07/25 |
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The Man and the Moment The Picker's Mentors | 04/04/25 |
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Creating My Yellow Brick Road It’s a Metaphor | 04/02/25 |
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We Need to Heed the Warnings.... Quite Early in the Morning | 03/31/25 |
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Sosa vs. Evita Who Will Be Your Mentor? | 03/28/25 |
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Through the Eyes of Vincent What Do We See? | 03/26/25 |
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I Wish I Was Still Teaching Art History But Why? | 03/24/25 |
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Then and Now History Repeats Itself—Two Out of Three Times | 03/21/25 |
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Which Man Are You in the Arena? It’s An Either/Or Choice | 03/17/25 |
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I Am Legend And the Darkseekers | 03/14/25 |
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Plagiarism in Mother Russia And in America | 03/12/25 |
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Problems Drive Us No Pain, No Gain | 03/10/25 |
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Addressing the Cancer of Discrimination “If Only We’re Brave Enough To Be It.” | 03/07/25 |
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Lessons We Need To Learn And Not Fade into History | 03/05/25 |
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Our Orange President Offers Gold Cards To the World | 03/03/25 |
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Reflections on My Surgery Talk About Being Lucky | 02/28/25 |
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My Day Under the Knife In La La Land | 02/26/25 |
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Comparing Two Presidents Trump and Marshall | 02/21/25 |
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Another Message from Missoula About the Rubicon | 02/19/25 |
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I Had a Bad Cold Last Month What’s the Big Deal? | 02/17/25 |
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Life is All About Your Owner’s Manual Check Your Owner’s Manual. | 02/14/25 |
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Planting My Mango Tree And Pondering Planting a Breadfruit Tree | 02/12/25 |
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The Truth of My Mantra It Is in Giving That We Get. | 02/10/25 |
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The Evolution of Our Orange President But Trump Will Say It Is All Fake News | 02/07/25 |
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Groundhog Day Essential Learning about Life | 02/05/25 |
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My Dog Named Ginger Pooh And Her Health Report | 02/03/25 |
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Sins of Our Fathers Gave Us the Orange President | 01/31/25 |
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The What If Question Asked Three Times | 01/29/25 |
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Sitting in a House on the Side of the Road Raises a Kierkegaardian Either/Or Question | 01/27/25 |
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Johnny Appleseed Past and Present | 01/24/25 |
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It All Started with And Ti Ti’s Scarf And Ends with My Golden Kata | 01/22/25 |
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The Importance of January 20 It is More Than George Burns and My Birthday | 01/20/25 |
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My Birthday Gift Who Is Happier? | 01/17/25 |
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Water on Mars That’s the Good News and the Bad News | 01/15/25 |
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If Only Chaplin Were Still Alive The Great Dictator Eight Decades Later | 01/13/25 |
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I Wouldn’t Go Back to America Even If Jesus Christ Was President | 01/10/25 |
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My Dilemma of Growing Old While Remaining Alive | 01/08/25 |
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Happy 6th Birthday to A Ngal Lay My Great Granddaughter | 01/06/25 |
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The Great Dictator Then and Now | 01/03/25 |
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Charlie Chaplin’s Advice For a Long Life | 01/01/25 |
2024
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What We Learned from Amazon Before It Is Too Late | 12/30/24 |
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The Loony Tunes Revisited | 12/27/24 |
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Ginger and the Gingerbread Man Once Upon a Time in a Place Faraway... | 12/25/24 |
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Why are We in Such a Mess? And the Answer is.... | 12/23/24 |
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My Thoughts About GiGi’s Passing Deal with Others as She Dealt with Us | 12/18/24 |
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Healthcare in America A Line Between Murder and Doing Business | 12/16/24 |
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Caravaggio Then and Now | 12/13/24 |
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Let Me See If I Understand Trump’s Nominees Who’s He Kidding? | 12/11/24 |
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A Tale of Two Planets Earth and Theia | 12/09/24 |
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My Canine Avatar Ginger | 12/06/24 |
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My Woodland Avatar Reflects on America | 12/04/24 |
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Charles Fort And His Meme | 12/02/24 |
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I Have Finally Seen the Light My Third Dance | 11/29/24 |
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Thinking about Thanksgiving More Clearly | 11/27/24 |
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Dreamers Or Dissers It Is an Either/Or Choice | 11/25/24 |
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It’s Med Time-- A Follow-up to Sauna Time | 11/22/24 |
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It’s Sauna Time If You Want To Enjoy Life | 11/20/24 |
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“While I Nodded, Nearly Napping...” There Came a Tapping | 11/18/24 |
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Drunk Monkeys And Blackberry Merlot | 11/15/24 |
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What If.... It's All About My Mantra. | 11/13/24 |
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Puerto Rico Then and Now | 11/11/24 |
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Amid the Chaos A Suggestion about the Next Four Years | 11/08/24 |
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The Music That Floated Around in My Head On Election Night | 11/06/24 |
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It's a Long, Long Road From Which There is No Return | 11/04/24 |
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Who is the Headless Horseman? But First, the Background | 11/01/24 |
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A Saint and a Sinner Michelle Obama and Lev Parnas | 10/30/24 |
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Happy Birthday Ginger She Turned Eight Today | 10/28/24 |
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What I Admire about Kamala And How She Will Change America | 10/25/24 |
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Robert Reich Paying Homage... To a Special American | 10/23/24 |
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Linking Up with My Family During Thadingyut | 10/21/24 |
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A Primer for Leaders Stupid is as Stupid Does | 10/18/24 |
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Trump is Correct...Partially He Just Missed Who the Enemy Was | 10/16/24 |
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What’s With the Water? Water, Water, Everywhere | 10/14/24 |
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Life Will Improve If You Use More than One Silo | 10/11/24 |
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Forrest Trump The Remake of Forrest Gump | 10/09/24 |
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Professor Keating and I We Both Took Mrs. Davis’s English Class | 10/07/24 |
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Another Set of Photos for Ti Ti Remain Driven in Life | 10/04/24 |
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Trump Psychoanalyzes Harris But He Reveals His Psych Issues in the Process | 10/02/24 |
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Another Eureka Moment Thank You, Nancy | 09/30/24 |
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“I Want To Be Your Protector” Said the Neanderthal | 09/27/24 |
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Following in the Footsteps of Lt. Zogg It’s All About Being Determined | 09/25/24 |
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Two Worlds and Two Realities Pick Your Choice | 09/23/24 |
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The Virgin King Enjoying Life in Another World | 09/20/24 |
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Another Parallel With James Earl Jones and Me | 09/18/24 |
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A Funny Thing Happened To Me As I Age, Not So Gracefully | 09/16/24 |
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Discovering a Mentor In a Field of Dreams | 09/13/24 |
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The Cat Lady By the Dog Gentleman | 09/11/24 |
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Another Set of Photos For Ti Ti from PaPa Al | 09/09/24 |
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Creating Fortress America Thoughts of Vulgar Vance | 09/06/24 |
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Becoming a Monkey King It's More Than Mere Monkey Business | 09/04/24 |
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The Weird Duo Donald the Dumb and Vulgar Vance | 09/02/24 |
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“The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree” The Bobby Paradox | 08/30/24 |
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We Are All Teachers Be Careful What You Teach | 08/28/24 |
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Become a Bo Bo Gyi It's About Giving to Get. | 08/26/24 |
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The Snowman vs Allen How To Change the World | 08/23/24 |
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Ginger Has Done the Dance We Are Bonded as Dancers | 08/21/24 |
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Creating Elysium In This World | 08/19/24 |
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Destiny or Fate It is Another Either/Or Issue | 08/16/24 |
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What’s with Nancy Nurenberg? It’s All About Feeling Dumb and Poor | 08/14/24 |
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The Duality of Daffodils Carpe Diem | 08/12/24 |
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Replying to Ti Ti’s Request For a Photo of PaPa Al | 08/09/24 |
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Get With It Roar Like a Lion | 08/07/24 |
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You Know that You Are Getting Old When You Don’t Know All the New Words and Slogans | 08/05/24 |
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Trump as Savior Let Me Hear a Halleluiah | 08/02/24 |
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Lessons Learned in Former British Colonies Like America, South Africa, and Myanmar | 07/31/24 |
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The Third Old Man Or Three Coins in the Fountain of Life | 07/29/24 |
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A Story of Two Old Men And How They Will Be Remembered | 07/26/24 |
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The Washington Role Model The Cherry Tree and Flowering Crabapple Tree | 07/24/24 |
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let the World Know It is Snow’s Birthday! | 07/22/24 |
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Thanking Our Grandmothers And Following in Their Footsteps | 07/17/24 |
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Ukraine and Myanmar An Unfortunate Parallel | 07/15/24 |
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My Kierkegaardian-esque Parable Either / Or | 07/12/24 |
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A Parable about Geese Waddle or Fly | 07/10/24 |
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If a Doctor Tells Me To Do Something Sometimes I Disobey | 07/08/24 |
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It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again With the Father and Son | 07/05/24 |
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Once Upon a Midnight Dreary What Would Kierkegaard Do? | 07/03/24 |
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How to Become Rich Without Any Much Money | 07/01/24 |
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How Will We Be Remembered Another Either / Or Essay | 06/28/24 |
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Ethnic Cleansing Then and Now | 06/26/24 |
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Christian Nationalism Who are These Christians? | 06/24/24 |
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Another Funny Thing Happened At My Barber Shop | 06/21/24 |
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We Need to Get Honest Much Sooner Than Later | 06/19/24 |
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A Funny Thing Happened At My Doctor’s Office | 06/17/24 |
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The Sickness Is Spreading Among Many Americans | 06/14/24 |
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Had We All Read Longfellow America Would Be a Better Place | 06/12/24 |
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I’m Leading Death Again On My Dancefloor of Life | 06/10/24 |
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Let Me Get This Straight Trump Is An Innocent Man | 06/07/24 |
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Learning from Kipling “You’re a Better Man than I Am, Gunga Din!” | 06/05/24 |
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A Poem for Ti Ti Who is Now Twenty | 06/02/24 |
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What’s It All About, Alfie According to Longfellow | 05/31/24 |
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We Still Aren’t Independent of England Many Still Have the Same Mindset | 05/29/24 |
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What Is Trump Doing on Memorial Day? Either Memorial Day | 05/27/24 |
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Repeating the Past Make Sure You Understand the Past | 05/24/24 |
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What a Difference a Generation Makes Greatness Isn’t Always Genetic | 05/22/24 |
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My Grandmother’s Words Haunt and Inspire Me | 05/20/24 |
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I Wonder Whether the Elk Did the Dance He Acted Like It | 05/17/24 |
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Ginger and I Have Done the Dance Each of Us Twice | 05/15/24 |
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Every Day is Like Survival You're My Lover Not My Rival | 05/13/24 |
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How Much Land Does a Man Need? An Edited Tolstoy | 05/10/24 |
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What’s with Bohemian Rhapsody And Our Takeaway | 05/08/24 |
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A Very Stable Genius Is Loose and Running Around | 05/06/24 |
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The Flying Dutchman Then and Now | 05/03/24 |
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Trump’s Roosting Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost | 05/01/24 |
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Rudy, Be Careful with Your Rants You Should Have Watched Men in Black | 04/29/24 |
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Still I Rise Despite Racism | 04/26/24 |
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Field of Dreams A Haunting Return | 04/24/24 |
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Lincoln and His Better Angels Or Trump and His Worst Demons | 04/22/24 |
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Immortal Beloved Beethoven’s, Shakespeare’s, and Mine | 04/19/24 |
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Total Eclipse of the Heart Revisited | 04/17/24 |
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My Solution to the Abortion Issue Form Follows Function | 04/15/24 |
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What Did Rowe Learn from Beethoven? Erasing | 04/12/24 |
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Repeating Bad History Creates Newer Bad History | 04/10/24 |
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What I Discovered When I Wasn’t Looking | 04/08/24 |
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Bush’s Bus Ride Leadership or Roadkills | 04/05/24 |
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Ginger Trains Her Owner And I’m Obedient | 04/03/24 |
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April Fool’s Day For the Donald | 04/01/24 |
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A Whiter Shade of Pale What’s It All About, Alfie? | 03/29/24 |
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“We Are Made of Star-Stuff,” But We Don’t Realize It. | 03/27/24 |
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The Real Mona Lisa Or the Fake Ones | 03/25/24 |
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Projection, Projection, Projection Trump’s Fatal Flaw | 03/22/24 |
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Standing on the Hill Our Human Destiny | 03/20/24 |
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Who Will Bring Trump to Justice Not the Courts | 03/18/24 |
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Träumerei Then and Now | 03/15/24 |
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Resurrecting the Quest of Men in Black Before the Election | 03/13/24 |
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Trump Has Some Issues with Taylor Swift Beyond His Legal Woes and Coming Up with a Half Billion Dollars | 03/11/24 |
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I Have Issues with Justice Thomas The Holier Than Thou Mindset | 03/08/24 |
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It’s Better to Burn Out Than to Fade Away | 03/06/24 |
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Ginger’s New Fashion Statement Keeping Her Happy and Healthy | 03/04/24 |
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Music and Me The Cost of Love Then and Now | 03/01/24 |
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And a Sickness Too Took Root Donald the Dumb Has Rooted | 02/28/24 |
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Odysseus’ Long, Long Journey Both Odysseus and Odie | 02/26/24 |
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The Paradox About Ring Kissing Why the Kiss? | 02/23/24 |
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Another Bedtime Story for Trump About Aaron and the Donald | 02/21/24 |
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Bo Bo Gyi And His Advice to His Granddaughter | 02/19/24 |
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Kicking the Can Down the Road, Again 50th Mass Shootings in America This Year | 02/16/24 |
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St. Valentine’s Day The Real St. Valentine’s Day | 02/14/24 |
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If I Were in Charge of Education This is What I Would Mandate | 02/12/24 |
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Citizen Kane and Citizen Trump Live in Xanadu | 02/09/24 |
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The Box or Jar of Pandora Another Parable | 02/07/24 |
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The Two Faces of Prometheus Which Face Will You Pick? | 02/05/24 |
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Trump Wasn’t the First Trump There Have Been Others | 02/02/24 |
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The Past is a Precursor To the Future | 01/31/24 |
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The Achilles’ Heel Of the Republicans | 01/29/24 |
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My Hill of Beans Paradox Created by the James Webb Space Telescope | 01/26/24 |
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My Birthday And the Age of Aquarius | 01/24/24 |
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My Third Dance with Death And Its Effect | 01/22/24 |
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Snow and Fatty Are Following in Ti Ti’s Footsteps | 01/19/24 |
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Bring Dead Molecules Back to Life On the Planet Jupiter | 01/17/24 |
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Donald the Dumb Believes Some Really Dumb Things | 01/15/24 |
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First, There was Jacques Cousteau Now, There is Ti Ti | 01/12/24 |
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Artificial Intelligence Past, Present, and Future | 01/10/24 |
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Infallibility of Trump And the Divine Right of Kings | 01/08/24 |
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It Was To Be a Short Phone Call But It Wasn’t | 01/05/24 |
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This Is a True Story... About Guts | 01/03/24 |
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Starting a New Year With a New Battery and Insight | 01/01/24 |
2023
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What’s It All About... The Paradox of Life | 12/29/23 |
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I’m Going to be an Astrophysicist... In My Next Life. | 12/27/23 |
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Unexpected Events Can Create Opportunities for Greatness | 12/25/23 |
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Do You Hear the People Sing... Who Will Not Be Slaves Again! | 12/22/23 |
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Why Write? Answers from Vonnegut and Faulkner | 12/20/23 |
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Solar Flares and CMEs Impending Impact | 12/18/23 |
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PaPa Al’s Reply To Ti Ti’s Posting, I Love Education | 12/15/23 |
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The Paradox of Learning It Is an Either/Or Knowledge Base | 12/13/23 |
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Yin-Yang Beyond My Personal World What About Your World? | 12/11/23 |
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My Yin Yang World Dreams vs. Reality | 12/08/23 |
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I Have a Solution For the Stupid TV Medicare Announcements | 12/06/23 |
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The Orange Jesus... Is from a Planet in the Andromeda Galaxy | 12/04/23 |
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Ginger’s Gift to Dr. Derrè Ginger Stated, “Dr. Derrè’s My Vet” | 12/01/23 |
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What Would T.E. Lawrence Do In Gaza and Israel? | 11/29/23 |
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Mary Had Little Lamb And PaPa Al Has a Big Irish Setter | 11/27/23 |
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The Evolution of Thanksgiving A Long and Winding Road | 11/24/23 |
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A Future Thanksgiving Far, Far Away | 11/22/23 |
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Reaching Out to Others for Help It Is Giving that We Get | 11/20/23 |
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The Royal We Revisited | 11/17/23 |
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Bananas Flambé for GiGi An Extraordinary Woman | 11/15/23 |
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Let Me Get This Straight “If you go after me, I’m coming after you.” | 11/13/23 |
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On the Road Again Ginger, the Pooh Dog, and Me | 11/10/23 |
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If I Were Q I’d Tell the Whole Story of the Téméraire | 11/08/23 |
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night A Lesson Taught by Dylan Thomas | 11/06/23 |
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The Reason for Being An Either/Or Situation | 11/03/23 |
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The Ripple Effect An Either/Or Issue | 11/01/23 |
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Ginger’s 7th Birthday What’s Life All About, Alfie? | 10/30/23 |
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Sagan’s Golden Records On the Horns of a Dilemma | 10/27/23 |
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Batter Up Next Batter | 10/25/23 |
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Flipper... Let the Show Begin | 10/23/23 |
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Breath of Fresh Air From My Web Administrator | 10/20/23 |
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Me and My Echocardiogram Beyond a Diagnosis | 10/18/23 |
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Dealing with the New Normal Again and Again | 10/13/23 |
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Lawrence of Arabia... A Mentor of Mine | 10/11/23 |
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Let’s Do the Math It is an Either/Or Choice | 10/09/23 |
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Kevin Needs Therapy And a Newer Gaming Video | 10/06/23 |
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Ginger’s Check-Up Again, at Purdue Veterinary Hospital | 10/04/23 |
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Ti Ti, the Artist The Georgia O’Keeffe of Myanmar | 10/02/23 |
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Casablanca... Then and Now | 09/29/23 |
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The Evolution of Humans To the Present Day | 09/27/23 |
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Ancient Greeks and the Fear Factor The Truth about the Fear Factor | 09/25/23 |
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My Second Shot Or the First Insurrection | 09/22/23 |
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My World of Xanadu Another Personal Parallel Essay | 09/20/23 |
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Ti Ti’s Surprising Email To Her Grandfather | 09/18/23 |
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Tyson’s Two Thoughts Regarding AI and a Ticking Clock | 09/15/23 |
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Dealing with Artificial Intelligence Seems a Bit Premature | 09/13/23 |
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Creating My Alive Life Gone Will Be the Days of Being Dead Tired | 09/11/23 |
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The Importance of Happenstance For Heavenly Clauses | 09/08/23 |
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Trump Is Better Than Jesus So He Says | 09/06/23 |
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Jumping Hoops for a Prescription Raises Ethical Issues at Various Levels | 09/04/23 |
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Another Dance for Ginger Learn and Live in the Moment | 09/01/23 |
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Before Burning Books... We Need to Read Them | 08/30/23 |
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The Source of Trump’s Mug Shot It’s Naissance was Wagner | 08/28/23 |
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Ginger’s Gifts From Michelle | 08/25/23 |
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Michelle The Sculptor and Writer | 08/23/23 |
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Holding Hands with Neal Katyal What My Teacher Taught Me | 08/21/23 |
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Hollow Men Two Troubled Souls | 08/18/23 |
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Thomas and Trump The Teacher and Student | 08/16/23 |
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St. Francis Expanded My Learning At Many Levels | 08/14/23 |
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Trump Won’t Like Judge Chutkan It Isn’t Wise for Trump To Threaten Her. | 08/11/23 |
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Haunting Photos Then and Now | 08/09/23 |
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Grasp This Truism From St. Francis and Buddha | 08/07/23 |
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What I Learned In My Twilight Years Giotto Revisited | 08/04/23 |
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The Parable of the Crow, Mouse, Gazelle, and Tortoise From the Fables of Kalīlah and Dimnah | 08/02/23 |
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Pictures of One of My Cossettes A Ngal Lay | 07/31/23 |
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What is My Reason for Being My Four Cosettes | 07/28/23 |
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Mentors Change Society Another Suggestion for a mentor | 07/26/23 |
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Oppie and Me The Similarities are Striking | 07/24/23 |
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Looking for a Mentor? Try Jacques Portefaix or Marie-Jeane Valet | 07/21/23 |
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The Synchronicity of My Mentors Bobby and Don Quixote | 07/19/23 |
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The Clown Car Drivers Are Driving Scared | 06/30/23 |
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Stonhenge and Manhattanhenge What's it all about, Alfie? | 06/28/23 |
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The Tree in the Silo A Metaphor of Me | 06/23/23 |
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Another Rogerian Psychotherapy Session On Father's Day | 06/21/23 |
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What Some Old White Guy Thinks And Juneteenth | 06/19/23 |
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Doublethink What Trump Learned from Animal Farm and 1984 | 06/07/23 |
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Damocles Then and Now The Parallels are Striking | 06/05/23 |
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Pick Mentors Carefully The Lady and Bobby | 06/02/23 |
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Be a Sherpa Whether or Not You are a Beekeeper or Nepalese | 05/31/23 |
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Doubting Thomas Teaching Gilgamesh to Thomas | 04/19/23 |
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The Times They Are A-Changin’ Again The Tennessee Three | 04/17/23 |
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Ginger’s Tribute to Her Vet “Thanks, But Can You Get Me Bigger Treats?” | 04/12/23 |
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A Golden Opportunity Explaining Ti Ti to her Class | 04/10/23 |
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A Suggestion of a Mentor A Sequel to Picking a Mentor Article | 04/07/23 |
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Picking Mentors Choose Wisely | 04/05/23 |
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Run That Past Me Again. It Doesn’t Make Sense. | 03/31/23 |
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Witch Hunts Question: Who Is the Witch? | 03/29/23 |
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The Effects of the Sun’s Coronal Hole Be Prepared | 03/27/23 |
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Tucker’s Talk Is Double-Talk | 03/24/23 |
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Rewriting the Past By Editing or Deleting It | 03/22/23 |
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Returning To the Past: Example One | 03/20/23 |
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We Are All Greeks Shelley, Vangelis, and Hawking | 03/17/23 |
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Ginger and Poisoning A Sequel | 03/15/23 |
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Ginger and I Our Trip Down the Yellow Brick Road | 03/13/23 |
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So, Let Me Get This Straight...the Sequel What’s the Gospel Truth? | 03/10/23 |
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NASA Discovered Six Massive Galaxies So What? | 03/08/23 |
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So Let Me Get This Straight Let’s Wake Up | 03/06/23 |
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Music Explains Me Music Drives Me | 03/03/23 |
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Flash: Trump is in Kyiv To Meet with Zelensky | 03/01/23 |
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Happy Birthday Moh Moh And Many More | 02/27/23 |
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First, It Was the Chinese Spy Balloon This Time What Is It? | 02/24/23 |
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Jabbering Parrots What We Can Learn from Churchill and Buffett | 02/22/23 |
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Inherit the Wind And You Will Be Gone with the Wind | 02/20/23 |
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Threading the Needle To Address Racism | 02/17/23 |
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TV Commercials Five Pros and One Con | 02/15/23 |
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Learning from Lao Tzu To Live Life Daringly | 02/13/23 |
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Learning from Two Astrophysicists About this World | 02/10/23 |
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The Chinese Magic Dragon Went Puff | 02/08/23 |
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Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi Addressing Our Nation’s Problems | 02/06/23 |
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Let’s Get Honest About White Camelot | 02/03/23 |
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Education is a Double-Edged Sword How To Address Learning | 02/01/23 |
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Aggressive Chimpanzees Outside of Africa | 01/30/23 |
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We are Good and Bad at the Same Time The Goodness Paradox | 01/27/23 |
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The Importance of Footprints But the Question is When | 01/25/23 |
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The Evolution of Aldie According to a 21st Century Darwinian Theory | 01/23/23 |
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What’s It All About Alfie? From an Eighty-Year Old Alfie | 01/20/23 |
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Where Did GADS Really Go To College? It Wasn’t Baruch College | 01/18/23 |
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My Quest for Eldorado In Three Parts | 01/16/23 |
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What Causes Stupidity? Lying or Lack of Knowledge | 01/13/23 |
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Than Myanmar’s van Gogh | 01/11/23 |
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Grasping Reality I Can’t Explain It | 01/09/23 |
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Legends Often Morph into Facts Gilgamesh and Mulan | 01/06/23 |
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Virgil, the Tour Guide into Hell The Divine Comedy 101 | 01/04/23 |
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The Benefit of Pain Take Advantage of It | 01/02/23 |
2022
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What Drove My Father and Drives Me? Pain | 12/30/22 |
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The Value of Mentors It’s About How We Play Are Cards | 12/28/22 |
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It’s All About We An Important Lesson of Life | 12/26/22 |
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Be Careful Whom You Choose as a Mentor Hatanaka or Scrooge | 12/23/22 |
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“Only This and Nothing More” Quote the Raven | 12/21/22 |
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I Wish that I Had Asked My Father About WWII | 12/19/22 |
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Repeating the Past...Part II Tokyo Rose | 12/16/22 |
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Repeating the Past It’s Just Fake News | 12/14/22 |
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I Could Hear the Silence While I Raged | 12/12/22 |
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Problems are Assets Seize the Problems | 12/09/22 |
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The Reckoning Day Of the Invincibles | 12/07/22 |
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A Soccer and Hockey Game What’s the Take Away? | 12/05/22 |
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My Way Morphing to My Mentoring | 12/02/22 |
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A Picture is Worth a Billion Words Or Pick Your Mentors Wisely | 11/30/22 |
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If You Are Looking for a Mentor... I Have a Suggestion | 11/28/22 |
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My Twilight Hauntings... About Immortality | 11/25/22 |
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What World Are We Living In? The Denier’s World | 11/23/22 |
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My Quest to Understand Why? Why Everything | 11/21/22 |
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A Swan Song Then and Now | 11/18/22 |
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Finger Pointing It’s Their Fault.... | 11/16/22 |
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Conspiracy Theory Nonsense... Except For One | 11/14/22 |
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The Chinese Used Knife Money But Why? | 11/11/22 |
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As Shelley Wrote, “We Are All Greeks” Some Don’t Get It | 11/09/22 |
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Camelot Revisited By Looking Again at the Past | 11/07/22 |
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A Message from Missoula And the Dangling Dog | 11/04/22 |
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Ginger is Now Six As We Do the Dance | 10/28/22 |
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Transparency Revisited While Down on the Farm | 10/21/22 |
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Growing Up Without Transparency And Finally Discovering It | 10/14/22 |
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Facing Storms of Life Another Either/Or Situation | 10/07/22 |
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Trying Times Testing Souls | 09/23/22 |
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Picking Mentors It Will Change Your Life | 09/09/22 |
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A Bedside Story for Donald It Begins, “Once Upon a Time….” | 08/29/22 |
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A Tribute to a Thinker My Thinker Shawn | 08/26/22 |
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Seeing Things More Clearly On My Yellow Brick Road | 08/24/22 |
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A King Cobra Pitted Against a Python A Teaching Moment | 08/22/22 |
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Narcissus of the Past And Narcissus of the Present | 08/19/22 |
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Hoosier’s Neighbor? The Ultimate Question | 08/17/22 |
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The Insanity of Hubris Based on a Trilogy of Mistaken Assumptions | 08/15/22 |
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Trilogy of Diseases How Are You Going to Address the Trilogy? | 08/12/22 |
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An Important Teaching Moment Joe and I Are Twins | 08/10/22 |
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Where Are We in the Global Scheme of Things? A Kierkegaardian Question | 08/8/22 |
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I Was Under the Knife For Nearly Five Minutes | 08/5/22 |
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A Funny Thing Happened to Me in Surgery I Talked About What Rattles Me | 08/3/22 |
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“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men… Often Go Awry.” | 08/1/22 |
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John Gotti Alias Teflon Don and Dapper Don | 07/29/22 |
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One of My Mantras Gals Pick Your Mentors Carefully | 07/27/22 |
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A Lesson About Life… Don’t Fear Death… | 07/24/22 |
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Happy Birthday Snow You Are 13 | 07/22/22 |
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My Place in the Universe I Don’t Want to be Lost in Space | 07/15/22 |
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Learn from William Wallace and Gilgamesh As We Journey Down Our Yellow Brick Roads | 07/13/22 |
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Learning from the Japanese About What We Don’t Know | 07/11/22 |
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Another Mantra of Mine Be a Storyteller | 07/8/22 |
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Alan Turing Thinking Outside the Box | 07/6/22 |
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The 4th of July Which is Unlike Most | 07/4/22 |
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Bridge On/Over the River Kwai Then and Now | 07/1/22 |
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Doing the Dance on Steroids And Promises to Keep | 06/29/22 |
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A Haunting Kierkegaardian Question Either/Or | 06/27/22 |
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Trouble in River City Come Hell or High Water | 06/24/22 |
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Lionel, Amazon’s Guardian Angel Fended Off UPS | 06/22/22 |
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Juneteenth A Day to Remember | 06/20/22 |
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Miah Is the 21st Century Eppie A Hand Is Put Into Theirs…. | 06/17/22 |
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There is a Teapot in Orbit Around the Sun… It Was Mentioned in Ancient Texts | 06/15/22 |
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When Storms Swirl Listen To the Bard of Avon | 06/13/22 |
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The Trinity of Evil Monkeys See as Monkeys Do | 06/10/22 |
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Teaching Justice Alito Latin, History, and Common Sense Past Decisions Aren’t Necessarily Correct | 06/6/22 |
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My Magnificent Obsession Along With Benefits | 06/3/22 |
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Happy Birthday, Ti Ti She Is No Longer a Young Lady | 06/1/22 |
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Which Memorial Day Should Be Observed? It Is an Either/Or Question. | 05/30/22 |
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If You Fly High Like Icarus You Will Crash and Burn | 05/27/22 |
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What Hath God Wrought Either/Or | 05/25/22 |
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I Have an Idea Have Bounty Hunters | 05/23/22 |
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Chatting with a Robin And the Reincarnation of Bo Bo Gyi | 05/20/22 |
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Lets Get Honest In the Real World | 05/18/22 |
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Our Reason for Being Sweeping Down the Mightiest Walls | 05/16/22 |
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“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men….” Reset and Carry On | 05/13/22 |
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The Battle of the Alamo… Past, Present, and Future | 05/11/22 |
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I Love Teaching… Here in Myanmar or Anywhere | 05/09/22 |
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Where Are Simon and Garfunkel… When We Need Them? | 05/06/22 |
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Ti Ti, the Driven An Exceptional Young Lady | 05/04/22 |
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My Commencement Address... To the World | 05/02/22 |
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Grasping Reality While My Clock Is Ticking | 04/29/22 |
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A Backed-Up Sewer Created a Parable | 04/27/22 |
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We Are All Greeks Some To a Much Lesser Extent | 04/25/22 |
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Diversity Visas What’s That All About, Alfie? | 04/22/22 |
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Acclimating to the New World In Mt. Lebanon, Taunggyi, and Crown Point | 04/20/22 |
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The Oligarch Above All Oligarchs Czar Putin | 04/18/22 |
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I’m An American Oligarch…. Of Sorts | 04/15/22 |
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Building Castles in the Sky Pushing the Limits of Possibility | 04/13/22 |
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Who Decides for Women? Either Men or Women | 04/11/22 |
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Heaven and Hell What’s It All About, Alfie | 04/08/22 |
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Ti Ti’s Yogi-ism “It’s Like Déjà Vu All Over Again.” | 04/06/22 |
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I Have Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 04/04/22 |
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When Choosing Mentors… Think | 04/01/22 |
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Seeing the Future At Least Three Times | 03/30/22 |
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My Family in Myanmar: A Sequel to What’s It All About | 03/28/22 |
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Where Do We Draw the Line in the Sand? It Depends | 03/25/22 |
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The Problem with Yes-Men Who Say Yes All the Time | 03/23/22 |
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Ginger and I What’s It All About and Why? | 03/21/22 |
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Children and War Ukraine and Myanmar | 03/18/22 |
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Ti Ti, the Teacher Of Her Classmates and Me | 03/16/22 |
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Two Views of the Ides of March One for Caesar and One for My Family | 03/14/22 |
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What We Can Learn from Yapping Dogs And Yapping Leaders | 03/11/22 |
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The Helter-Skelter Mindset Locally and Globally | 03/09/22 |
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My Great-Granddaughter A Younger Version of My Granddaughters | 03/07/22 |
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Two Military Leaders Parker and Lee | 03/04/22 |
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A Tale of Two Leaders: Address Their Rivals | 03/02/22 |
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Unintended Consequences From Easter Island | 02/28/22 |
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If Everything Around You Seems Dark… Look Again. You May Be the Light. | 02/25/22 |
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Putin’s Legacy Gilgamesh’s Lesson | 02/23/22 |
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History Is Repetitious Then and Now | 02/21/22 |
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“The Life and Times of Al Capone…Then and Now.” I’ll Never Pass Up a Teaching Moment. | 02/18/22 |
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My Personality Quirks… I Have Several | 02/16/22 |
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My Latest Himalayan Salt Lamp A Parable for Today | 02/14/22 |
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The Tale of My Foot Years Ago and Today | 02/11/22 |
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What a Difference a Half-Century Makes If We See It | 02/09/22 |
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More Parallels Between Myanmar and America Aung San and Bobby Kennedy | 02/07/22 |
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Parallels Between Myanmar and America Even Though They Are On the Other Side of the World | 02/04/22 |
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My Dream of Diversity In the Footsteps of Bobby | 02/02/22 |
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Diversity Is the Answer But What Is the Question? | 01/31/22 |
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Kiev Then and Now | 01/28/22 |
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When I Become a Billionaire… A Jaguar SUV Will Be in My Garage | 01/26/22 |
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Two Countries Living in One World | 01/24/22 |
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A Sequel to My Dreamland Journey… To the Brighter Side of Life | 01/21/22 |
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My Dreamland During My Operation | 01/19/22 |
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Coming to America A Dream of Many | 01/17/22 |
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Mary Tofts Then and Now | 01/14/22 |
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“Better To Reign in Hell… Than Serve in heaven.” | 01/12/22 |
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A Cancer, Too, Took Root But the Backstory Is More Important | 01/10/22 |
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Galileo Found Four Moons Avoid Cancer | 01/07/22 |
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Beware of the Mongolian Death Worm In Both Mongolia and America | 01/05/22 |
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Find a Mentor… Then Emulate That Person | 01/03/22 |
2021
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A Reason for Being… The Most Important Reason for My Being | 12/31/21 |
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Buffalo Soldiers Then and Now | 12/29/21 |
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Young Frankenstein And Her Treatment Plan | 12/27/21 |
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Christmas: Past, Present, and Future | 12/24/21 |
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The Graduate… The Canine Version | 12/22/21 |
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A Sickness Too Took Root Everywhere | 12/20/21 |
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The Operation Was Successful But No Microchip Was Found | 12/17/21 |
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Free To Be Me… Somewhat | 12/15/21 |
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The Deep State Is Watching Me But Why? | 12/13/21 |
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There Is More To Life… Than Paddling Around and Accomplishing Nothing | 12/10/21 |
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Two Dreamers... Discuss the Way the World Should Be | 12/08/21 |
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Moh Moh’s Roles in Our Family: My Daughter and My Mother | 12/06/21 |
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I Love My Family With Some Caveats | 12/03/21 |
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Archimedes and the Syracusia It’s All About Dreaming | 12/01/21 |
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Waking Up… To Getting Old | 11/29/21 |
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“The Moving Finger Writes” Another Teaching Moment | 11/26/21 |
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It All Started with Roger Williams Which Needs To Be Revisited | 11/24/21 |
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Ginger and I In Our Recovery Modes | 11/22/21 |
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I Never Miss a Teaching Moment But Who Benefits | 11/19/21 |
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Protests at School Boards Then and Now | 11/17/21 |
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My Extended Family You Can See Her Painting. | 11/15/21 |
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I’m the Reincarnation of Bo Bo Gyi According to Fatty | 11/12/21 |
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It Starts with Education… And Ends with Reform. | 11/10/21 |
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What is Critical Race Theory? Two Options | 11/08/21 |
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Ginger and the Mask and Shot Mandates A Canine Teaching Moment | 11/05/21 |
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From a Ripple to a Raging Current Based Upon Reciprocity | 11/03/21 |
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A New World Order The World from Campbell’s Perspective | 11/01/21 |
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Happy Birthday, Ginger I Wish You Many More with Your Blue Dolphin | 10/29/21 |
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A New Ripple And a Purposeful Life | 10/27/21 |
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Paying Homage… To Me | 10/25/21 |
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The Duality of Changing Times Change, and We Change | 10/22/21 |
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Having a Purposeful Life Another Sequel About Dreaming | 10/20/21 |
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Societal Dreaming Delayed but Not Dashed | 10/18/21 |
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Miss Independent Bo Bo Gyi’s Granddaughter | 10/15/21 |
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A Dream Delayed Or a Dream Dashed | 10/13/21 |
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We Need to Learn from History… Not Rewrite It. | 10/11/21 |
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My Takeaway From the Great Chicago Fire | 10/08/21 |
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What Ginger’s Dances Taught Me Despite My Dances | 10/06/21 |
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Ti Ti and Education Why Is Education Critical? | 10/04/21 |
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What’s All This About Women? “The Times They Are A-Changin’ Ever So Slowly” | 10/01/21 |
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I Successfully Survived an Electromyography At Least for the Time Being | 09/29/21 |
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Once Upon a Midnight Dreary…. “Ride, Boldly Ride” | 09/27/21 |
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Parallels with Ti Ti A Part of Which Are Genetic | 09/24/21 |
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Quoth the Raven My Medical Diagnosis | 09/22/21 |
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A Ngal Lay Sent Me Pictures and a Video About Our Time Together | 09/20/21 |
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Revisiting Gilgamesh A Teaching Moment | 09/17/21 |
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My Great-Granddaughter… A Ngal Lay | 09/15/21 |
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We Need to Learn from the Past Or We Will Repeat | 09/13/21 |
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When I Become President of the World… Things Are Going to Change | 09/10/21 |
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The Dual Negativisms… Of Racism and Sexism | 09/08/21 |
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The Pros and Cons… Of Replicating Our Parents | 09/06/21 |
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“I’m Doing the Dance” The Title of Ti Ti’s Poem | 09/03/21 |
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Snow’s Poem About Her New Normal | 09/01/21 |
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Realizing the New Normal What’s All About, Alfie? | 08/30/21 |
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What Once Was But Isn’t Now In Camelot | 08/27/21 |
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There Is a Message in the Mask Listen To the Medical Professionals or Get Sick | 08/25/21 |
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The Eternal Question The Harvest or the Seeds | 08/23/21 |
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Me and My Pilgrimages Due To Racism | 08/20/21 |
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What Can We Learn from Art? The Answer Is…. | 08/18/21 |
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My Hauntings of Polio Past and Present | 08/16/21 |
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Trump Is Returning to the White House Today, August 13, 2021 | 08/13/21 |
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Gandhi’s Tribute to Moh Moh For Her Indomitable Will | 08/11/21 |
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Learning from Dancing Starlings… A Great Learning Moment for Us | 08/09/21 |
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It Is Time To Write Poetry Another Teaching Event | 08/06/21 |
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It’s Like Déjà Vu All Over Again For Ginger and Me | 08/04/21 |
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Sir Gawain, the Knight Doing What a Knight Does | 08/01/21 |
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What To Do When Your World Is Out of Control What I Learned from My Family | 07/30/21 |
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Ginger Doing the Dance And An Important Takeaway | 07/28/21 |
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A Follow-Up to Snow’s Email Another Teaching Moment | 07/26/21 |
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We Are Cave Men But What Is Our Purpose in Life? | 07/23/21 |
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Happy Birthday, Snow Time To Remember | 07/21/21 |
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Disinformation Is Deadly So, Why Lie to America? | 07/19/21 |
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How To Achieve Being Venerated, Wise, and Great In Two Steps | 07/16/21 |
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A Ngal Lay My Great-Granddaughter | 07/14/21 |
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A Story of Three Statues Lee, Jackson, Trump | 07/12/21 |
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Poets Both Past and Present Amanda Gorman and Sarah Kay | 07/09/21 |
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Resurrection I’m Alive Along with My Computer, and Ginger | 07/07/21 |
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Patriots Past and Present in America On the 4th of July | 07/05/21 |
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I Created an Artistic Masterpiece… For Ginger | 07/02/21 |
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Critical Race Theory A 21st Century Scopes Monkey Trial | 06/30/21 |
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Write On Advice from PaPa Al, aka Grandpa | 06/28/21 |
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Scarface PaPa Al Isn’t My Nickname | 06/25/21 |
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If They See the Goblin… They Might Also See Planet X. | 06/23/21 |
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More Apologies Expressed To My Physicians | 06/21/21 |
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Let Me Ponder This for a Moment Wake Up, America | 06/18/21 |
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Trump In 3-D Dumb, Delusional, and Despicable | 06/16/21 |
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What the Oldest Stars Taught Me… About Life | 06/14/21 |
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One More Comment For Ti Ti As She Journeys Down Her Yellow Brick Road | 06/11/21 |
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The Little One, A Part of My Family | 06/09/21 |
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Than, a Great Artist The Art of Playing the Hand Dealt You | 06/07/21 |
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Set Set Yo And a Little Child | 06/04/21 |
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Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen Happy Birthday | 06/02/21 |
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Memorial Day 2021 It Is in Giving that We Get | 05/31/21 |
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One Year Hence Reincarnation of Gawain and the Fox | 05/28/21 |
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Fake News or Real News I Can Imagine the Debate in Congress | 05/26/21 |
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McCarthy’s Talk Which Is Doublespeak | 05/24/21 |
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Rewriting History While You Were There | 05/21/21 |
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"History Is Written By Victors…" Sometimes | 05/19/21 |
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Bamboo vs. Papyrus Fake News vs. Truth | 05/17/21 |
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Reincarnation of Ra-Ra… Reincarnation of Ra-Ra… | 05/14/21 |
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Queen Elizabeth and King Donald Royal Indignity | 05/12/21 |
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Learn and Become a Storyteller All You Need To Do Is To Travel | 05/10/21 |
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The History of Myanmar… Is Being Written Now | 05/07/21 |
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Trinity of Guts Or Cult of Chickens | 05/05/21 |
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Three Take-Aways From Denzel Washington’s Commencement Address | 05/03/21 |
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The Haunting Question Which Sir Launfal Are You? | 04/30/21 |
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He Is My Brother On This Pale Blue Dot | 04/28/21 |
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He Ain’t Heavy He Is My Brother | 04/26/21 |
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Problems Offer a Choice Either a Cul-de-sac or a Challenge | 04/23/21 |
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A Religious Disconnect A Human Disconnect | 04/21/21 |
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A Funny Thing Happened While on Zoom My Fourth La Danse Macabre | 04/19/21 |
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Learning from Collecting Written by a Collector of Treasures | 04/16/21 |
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The War of Northern Aggression Isn’t Over Yet | 04/14/21 |
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Are You Looking for a Mentor? This is My Advice | 04/12/21 |
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A Survivor’s Guide For Living in a Post-Trumpian World | 04/09/21 |
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My Quest to Find Meaning Life My Search for My Holy Grail | 04/07/21 |
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As Kierkegaard Said It Is Either/Or | 04/05/21 |
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A Disadvantage of Being a WASPWe All Need to Learn | 04/02/21 |
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A Trilogy of Choices Either Rewriting History, Editing History, or Reliving History | 03/31/21 |
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Getting on the Same PageIn My Class and Our World | 03/29/21 |
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My Love of Teaching This Is An Example | 03/26/21 |
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I Told You SoPride Goeth Before Destruction | 03/24/21 |
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I Live in Two WorldsI Have Benefited from One World | 03/22/21 |
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What’s It All About Aldie My Haunting Question | 03/19/21 |
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Meghan, Harry, and ArchieAddress Royal Racism | 03/17/21 |
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Teaching Moments TodayAnd Teaching Moments for the Future | 03/15/21 |
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What Demosthenes, Bobby Kennedy, and Gilgamesh… Could Teach Mumbling Mitch | 03/12/21 |
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It’s All About Being RememberedChoose Wisely | 03/10/21 |
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We Over Me… Or Me Over We | 03/08/21 |
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Getting My Second COVID Shot… And Immortality | 03/05/21 |
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A Tale of Two Countries And a Present-Day Theme and Variation of Life | 03/03/21 |
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What Makes Me Tick and Teach? No Pain, No Gain | 03/01/21 |
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We Live in Two Different WorldsChoose Wisely Your World | 02/05/21 |
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The Pandas and My PoohAnd Other Followers of Gilgamesh | 02/03/21 |
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Who Is That Lady in Yellow?A 21st Century Eppie | 02/01/21 |
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Learning Is Three-Dimensional… But It Is Discovered On the Road | 01/29/21 |
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Stopping in the WoodsWhile Dreaming Dreams | 01/27/21 |
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Where’s the Proof?The New Me | 01/25/21 |
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Finding ImmortalityGilgamesh and Ti Ti | 01/22/21 |
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There are Facts…And There are Fake Facts. | 01/20/21 |
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The Gilgamesh EpicThen and Now | 01/18/21 |
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The Answer to the Question…What’s It All About, Alfie? | 01/15/21 |
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Purposeful LivesOn Steroids | 01/13/21 |
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Donald, It Was a Bridge Too FarAnd You Lost, Again. | 01/11/21 |
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Seeing Ourselves as Others See UsIn This Case, Ti Ti Seeing Herself | 01/08/21 |
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A Preamble to Our Present PresidentHis Mantra: It is All About Me, and I’m in Control | 01/06/21 |
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An Old White Guy Explains RacismAnother Teaching Moment | 01/04/21 |
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A Teaching MomentWith Ti Ti | 01/01/21 |
2020
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Today is Thanksgiving Day… Near Inle Lake | 12/30/20 |
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Kayla, Bananas Flambé and Party Time for Ginger A Happy Day for Ginger | 12/28/20 |
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A Christmas Carol in 2020…It Is in Giving that We Get | 12/25/20 |
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Where Is a Martin Niemöller…When We Need an Honest Person? | 12/23/20 |
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A Secret About LifeHow To Be Successful | 12/21/20 |
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When Opportunity KnocksCarpe Diem | 12/18/20 |
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Achilles’ HeelThen and Now | 12/16/20 |
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Your Meaning of Being…What Is It? | 12/14/20 |
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Branding in the Waning DaysSome Branding Ideas | 12/11/20 |
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Either Death Bed ConfessionsOr Death Bed Accusations | 12/09/20 |
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This Is a Teaching MomentAbout America | 12/07/20 |
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Hitler’s Bunker MentalityThen and Now | 12/04/20 |
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Remembering the PastSpring Follows Winter | 12/02/20 |
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Blue House Remodeled…With Drive and Determination | 11/30/20 |
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1984 RevisitedAnd Last Black Friday | 11/27/20 |
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Frank Goes an Extra Mile…For Ginger and Me | 11/25/20 |
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Bobby Burns’ Message…For Ti Ti | 11/23/20 |
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A Modafinil Moment…Revisited | 11/20/20 |
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Problems Are Catalysts for ChangeBut It Is Up to You | 11/18/20 |
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It’s Either/OrTrump Needs to Read Søren Kierkegaard | 11/16/20 |
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I Love MeSaid the Narcissistic Joker | 11/13/20 |
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The Cheshire Cat Has Divided Our NationAnd Many Kowtow to the Cheshire Cat | 11/11/20 |
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Emails Past and PresentA Reflection Upon Our World | 11/09/20 |
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Modafinil and Lao TzuBenefit My Pooh Dog | 11/06/20 |
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Discerning the TruthA Means to Live Life | 11/04/20 |
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It Was Four Years AgoAnd What a Difference Four Years Makes | 11/02/20 |
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Ginger’s Birthday BashI Hope That She Has Many More | 10/30/20 |
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We Are Both Dancers…Ginger and I | 10/28/20 |
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The Importance of the Sound of Music…According to Nietzsche and Me | 10/26/20 |
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On Deciphering the Truth…By Thinking | 10/23/20 |
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The Giving and GettingBoth Parties Benefit | 10/21/20 |
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Ti Ti Teaches a Myanmar MythTo Her Sister | 10/19/20 |
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye…Ti Ti Is Starting College Today! | 10/16/20 |
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Bunker Time A Prediction | 10/14/20 |
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Damned If He Does, and Damned If He Doesn’t. On Being on the Horns of a Dilemma | 10/12/20 |
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The Devil Made Me Do It. A Presidential Duet | 10/09/20 |
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Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity | 10/07/20 |
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My Two Worlds…Affect My Life | 10/05/20 |
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Bad KarmaSticks to People | 10/02/20 |
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This is Success in the MakingYou Heard It First from PaPa Al | 09/30/20 |
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Jainism or the JusticeThe Place of Women in the World | 09/28/20 |
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This Is an AddendumTi Ti, the Bridge Builder | 09/25/20 |
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From Then to NowWhat a Difference Seven Years Has Made | 09/23/20 |
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Importance of Human SacrificePast and Present | 09/21/20 |
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Dealing with RealityIn the Human and Canine World | 09/18/20 |
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Masks Matter…To Some | 09/16/20 |
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Two PoemsBy Two LadiesWe found the lost video in cyberspace. | 09/14/20 |
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A Present Day Parable for AmericaIt Is All About Sharing | 09/11/20 |
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The Chicken Has Come Home to RoostWith a Bone Spur | 09/09/20 |
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I Live in Two Worlds:One in the States and One in Myanmar | 09/07/20 |
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Coming Home to RoostKierkegaard, Mt. Lebanon, Dancing, and My Family | 09/04/20 |
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The Story of Tom and JerryWhat’s in a Name? | 09/02/20 |
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A Brief History of TimeOf Ginger II and Me | 08/31/20 |
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Joe and I Are TwinsWith Similar Interests | 08/28/20 |
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Teaching the ChildrenIt is Your Legacy | 08/26/20 |
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My Time for Doting…“My Granddaughter, Ti Ti, is the Greatest….” | 08/23/20 |
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There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming | 08/07/20 |
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Focusing My Stream of ConsciousnessBy Watching a Movie | 08/05/20 |
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Let Me Get This Straight…About the Trump Flu | 08/03/20 |
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A Teaching MomentWhile Walking Ginger | 07/31/20 |
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Our Lord Overseer DoctorHas a Treatment Plan | 07/29/20 |
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Egoism vs AltruismThere is a Better Way | 07/27/20 |
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Ti TiMy Granddaughter and Poet Laurate | 07/24/20 |
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Ginger and I Have Done the DanceAnd Are Alive | 07/22/20 |
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"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.” | 07/20/20 |
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I Am the Old ManGoing a Lone Highway | 07/17/20 |
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The Brighter Side of My LifeDue to a Serendipitous Moment | 07/15/20 |
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I’m Into Evil EyesThey Work Wonders | 07/13/20 |
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A Tribute to FattyThe Girl with Those Eyes | 07/10/20 |
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A Tribute to SnowMy Granddaughter in Myanmar | 07/08/20 |
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A Tribute to Ti Ti The Young Lady | 07/06/20 |
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I Dream Things That Never Were…And Say Way Not” | 07/03/20 |
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“We See No White-Winged Angels Now…”But We See Little Children | 07/01/20 |
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The Morphing Together of a Salt Lamp, Nero, and Cat StevensAn Insight for the Present Day | 06/29/20 |
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The Good, the Bad, and the UglyWe Can Do Better | 06/26/20 |
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Another of Santayana’s Teaching Moment Maybe We Will Learn This Time | 06/24/20 |
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The Long-Neck WomenA Tradition in Myanmar | 06/22/20 |
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A Teaching Moment…Part ThreeDonald the Dumb and Taking a Knee | 06/19/20 |
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Living in Two Worlds…Part 2The Utopian Time | 06/17/20 |
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Living in Two WorldsPart 1 | 06/15/20 |
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Reflections on My Journey Down the Yellow Brick RoadOur Clocks Are Ticking | 06/12/20 |
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You Do the MathI Love Teaching | 06/10/20 |
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Donald the Dumb | 06/08/20 |
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An Open-Letter to the WorldTimes They Are a-Changin' | 06/05/20 |
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Ti Ti’s Spin on My WeltanschauungAnd Mine on Hers | 06/01/20 |
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Living in the New NormalOur New World Order | 05/29/20 |
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The Use of DrugsDonnie, Aldie, and Dr. Goodspeed | 05/27/20 |
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A New Memorial DayDue to the COVID-19 | 05/25/20 |
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The Thoughts of a DoctorA Teaching Opportunity | 05/22/20 |
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It Is All About FamilyAnd Who Makes Up Our Family | 05/20/20 |
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Our Reason for BeingDiscover It | 05/18/20 |
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The Elephant RideOver the Alps of Myanmar | 05/11/20 |
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Thinking Outside the Box of COVID-19And How You Will Benefit | 05/08/20 |
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Ballooning Over BaganWith My Family | 05/06/20 |
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It’s About the Way We Play Our HandsPlay Them Well | 05/04/20 |
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The Man Without a MaskMini Me, the VP | 05/01/20 |
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Ti Ti…The Amazing Young Lady | 04/29/20 |
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Taung Kwe PagodaAn Out of the World Location | 04/27/20 |
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The World is Dancing…Dancing with Death | 04/24/20 |
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Why I Love Inle LakeTwo Reasons | 04/22/20 |
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The Week That WasDance on with Determination | 04/20/20 |
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“I Could Stand in the Middle of Fifth Avenue….”You Are Standing on Main Streets in America and Shooting | 04/13/20 |
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The Brighter Side of LifeSomewhat Brighter | 04/10/20 |
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Plague DoctorThen and Now | 04/06/20 |
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Understanding Life as We Live ItSonata Pathétique | 04/03/20 |
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An Open Letter to Dr. FauciOne American’s Thank You | 04/01/20 |
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Another Miracle Drug…Maybe | 03/30/20 |
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Another Teaching MomentAbout Times Past | 03/27/20 |
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Regarding Dancing with CoronavirusCampbell’s Five Commandments | 03/25/20 |
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Let’s Make a DealThanks to Modafinil | 03/23/20 |
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The Cave vs Reality...That is the Question. | 03/20/20 |
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A Teaching MomentFor Today and the Future | 03/18/20 |
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Trump’s NemesisPresident Obama | 03/16/20 |
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I Don’t Like FailingModus Operandi | 03/13/20 |
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We Face Two PandemicsBoth Need Immediate Attention | 03/11/20 |
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Think Before You ActThen Dare Greatly | 03/09/20 |
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Circle of LifeDance On | 03/06/20 |
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Holy TerrorMy Nom De Guerre | 03/04/20 |
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“Let’s Get Going.”An Important Lesson of Life (FLASH: The lost video sound is back) |
03/02/20 |
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How Playing Scrabble Changed My LifeWho Would Have Thought? | 02/28/20 |
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Mr. ChipsAn Updated Version | 02/26/20 |
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Moh Moh’s Interview of Me | 02/24/20 |
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Angry Old MenThere is an Alternative | 02/21/20 |
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What Drives MeBack Then and Now | 02/19/20 |
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Than’s Interview of Me | 02/17/20 |
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