An Old Man and his Grandson by Ghirlandaio
The following is an index page of articles about some of the mentors and their effects on me. Some of the mentors knew that they were helping me to understand some issue and others had no idea that I was learning from them by way of their lifestyles. Some of my mentors are no longer with us, but their guidance lives on within me.
Excluding my parents and family, my mentors started with Brooks Oakford and then continued with Louie Palmer, Teddy Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, Norm Vaughan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Bobby Kennedy, T. E. Lawrence, Carl Sagan, Gilgamesh, Steve Biko, Don Quixote, Andrea Bocelli, William Forrester, Anne Perry, Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Aung San Suu Kyi, Randy Pausch, Elizabeth Warren and Bo Bo Gyi.
The following article is a historically and chronologically accurate composite of the mentors I have had in my life.
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What I Learned Being Mentored An Old Man and His Grandson | 09/01/13 |
The following is an index of some of the
articles that I have written
about these mentors and their effect upon me.
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Sir Gawain, the Knight Doing What a Knight Does | 08/01/21 |
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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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Write On Advice from PaPa Al, aka Grandpa | 06/28/21 |
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The Little One, A Part of My Family | 06/09/21 |
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Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen Happy Birthday | 06/02/21 |
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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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A Religious Disconnect A Human Disconnect | 04/21/21 |
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Learning from Collecting Written by a Collector of Treasures | 04/16/21 |
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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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A Trilogy of Choices Either Rewriting History, Editing History, or Reliving History | 03/31/21 |
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I Told You SoPride Goeth Before Destruction | 03/24/21 |
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Meghan, Harry, and ArchieAddress Royal Racism | 03/17/21 |
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What Demosthenes, Bobby Kennedy, and Gilgamesh… Could Teach Mumbling Mitch | 03/12/21 |
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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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Stopping in the WoodsWhile Dreaming Dreams | 01/27/21 |
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There are Facts…And There are Fake Facts. | 01/20/21 |
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Purposeful LivesOn Steroids | 01/13/21 |
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A Secret About LifeHow To Be Successful | 12/21/20 |
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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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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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Masks Matter…To Some | 09/16/20 |
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Two PoemsBy Two Ladies | 09/14/20 |
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A Present Day Parable for AmericaIt Is All About Sharing | 09/11/20 |
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There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming | 08/07/20 |
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"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.” | 07/20/20 |
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Ti Ti’s Spin on My WeltanschauungAnd Mine on Hers | 06/01/20 |
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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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Regarding Dancing with CoronavirusCampbell’s Five Commandments | 03/25/20 |
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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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Think Before You ActThen Dare Greatly | 03/09/20 |
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How Playing Scrabble Changed My LifeWho Would Have Thought? | 02/28/20 |
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The Republican TrinitySessions, Bolton, and Roberts | 01/31/20 |
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A Present-Day ParableWhich Can Be Understood | 01/24/20 |
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My Swan SongAnd My Family’s Swan Song | 01/17/20 |
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I Found Another Incarnation of Bo Bo GyiWhile on Inle Lake | 01/15/20 |
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I Found Another Incarnation of Bo Bo GyiWhile on Inle Lake | 01/15/20 |
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Trump and Stalin Every Pictures Tells a Story | 05/31/19 |
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Carl Sagan The World Learned Much from Him | 05/06/19 |
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Wanderlust Travel with No Regret | 05/01/19 |
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I Wander and Wonder But I Am Not Lost | 04/22/19 |
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Three Songs Morphed Together Creating Meaning in Life | 03/22/19 |
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The Purpose of the Universe Or My Window on the World | 03/20/19 |
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Warren Buffett Don’t Sleep Walk Through Life | 02/22/19 |
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The Wall Issue The True Value of a Wall | 01/14/19 |
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Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It. | 01/11/19 |
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Reflections on The Magnificent Seven… | 12/12/18 |
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The Magnificent Seven… My Dream Team | 12/07/18 |
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On Making Your Mark And Leaving It | 10/22/18 |
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Sexism in Society Especially in Washington | 10/05/18 |
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Jack and Owen Make Bananas Flambé | 06/13/18 |
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My Follow-Up… To My Email To Ti Ti | 03/19/18 |
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The Question Is… How Will You Be Remembered? | 02/26/18 |
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What Would You Attempt To Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail? | 02/21/18 |
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The Water Horse of Loch Ness And Our Water Horses of Life | 02/07/18 |
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Bobby the Runt Turned into Bobby the Leader | 01/17/18 |
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My Thoughts about the Meaning of Life My Perspective from My Twilight Years | 01/05/18 |
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Another Breakfast with My Shrink Dealing with Dreaming | 01/01/18 |
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Dreaming Dreams that Never Were... Asking Why Not. | 12/15/17 |
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On Picking Mentors Pick Carefully | 12/01/17 |
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What is Kepler Looking For? Intelligent Life in the Universe | 11/15/17 |
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The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me Ginger and Don Quixote | 11/10/17 |
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What I Owe Ashley and Michael Wall Removal | 10/11/17 |
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I’m On the Road Again But Why? | 09/08/17 |
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When Dreams Aren’t Realized What Should You Do? | 09/01/17 |
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Akhenaten... My Mentor | 08/25/17 |
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Get Educated— Travel | 08/23/17 |
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Essay with No Words But Look At My Eyes | 08/21/17 |
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Me and My Shrink Dealing With What Drives Me | 08/16/17 |
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Ti Ti and I A Most Haunting Relationship | 08/04/17 |
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What Did I Learn... From Vinegar Joe | 07/05/17 |
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Frobisher’s Quests The Northwest Passage and Gold | 05/31/17 |
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HMS Terror, HMS Erebus, Global Warming… Or Nonsense from Those Godless Chinese Communists | 05/26/17 |
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To Become… What You Might Have Been | 04/28/17 |
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Getting It Together… An Avenue to Acquiring Dreams | 04/26/17 |
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The Meaning of Life It Is All About Fighting the Good Fight for Others | 04/19/17 |
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Life Is a Bowl of Cherries Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men | 04/14/17 |
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The Efforts of the Lady vs. The Efforts of Donald the Dumb | 04/12/17 |
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Chick Magnet And the Hauntings | 03/31/17 |
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Shrimp Can Whistle "I dream things that never were and say, why not." | 03/08/17 |
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Invictus Thank You, Mrs. Davis | 03/06/17 |
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Robert the Bruce I'll Drink to Him! | 02/17/17 |
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I'm Hanging My Lantern For All To See | 12/23/16 |
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Accomplishing Things in Life... Even Long Shots | 12/16/16 |
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Teach Your Children, Part 2 But When? | 12/12/16 |
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Mentor Tell You Something About You The Value of Post-it Notes | 12/09/16 |
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Only Those Who Dare to Fail... Can Achieve | 12/05/16 |
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Moh Moh's Email Big Dreams Never Run Smooth | 12/02/16 |
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The Lady, Bobby, and Bagan Triangulation Process | 11/14/16 |
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Jack and Owen, the Artists Determined Artists | 11/11/16 |
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On the Road Again... Like a Gypsy | 11/07/16 |
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What a Difference a Few Years Makes If You Are Joisting with Windmills | 10/10/16 |
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Dealing with Impossible Dreams Realistically... Or Getting All My Ducks Lined Up | 09/26/16 |
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Moh Moh Spoke And She Sounded Like Don Quixote | 09/09/16 |
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Return to Myanmar Dream Big | 09/02/16 |
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Rediscovering the Past... Eleanor Roosevelt | 08/31/16 |
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The Meaning Behind the Man The Man of La Mancha | 08/29/16 |
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Trying and Failing... Is Better than Failing without Trying | 08/26/16 |
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Listening to My Mentors And Dreaming Impossible Dreams | 08/19/16 |
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The Terrorism Trifecta Three More Dances with Death | 08/12/16 |
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The Maltese Falcon Talked And I Listened | 08/10/16 |
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Bobby Kennedy Still Reaches Out to Us. | 07/29/16 |
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My Love Letters They Must Be Written | 07/22/16 |
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We Shall Overcome A Belief Amid Darkness | 07/18/16 |
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Dealing with Dreams that Could Have Been... But Aren't | 07/15/16 |
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Prediction of Clinton's Running Mate And Her Running Mate Is.... | 07/08/16 |
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"I Come in a World of Iron... To Make a World of Gold." | 06/27/16 |
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Bloody Hands and No Backbone What a Legacy | 06/20/16 |
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My Sherpa Statue Spoke A Valuable Time Spent Listening | 06/17/16 |
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The Angel Spoke... And I Listened. | 06/10/16 |
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Mr. Turner The Dualism of Feelings | 05/06/16 |
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An Anniversary Has Arrived.... The Fifth Anniversary. | 05/02/16 |
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Rewriting History To Fit Our Notions | 04/22/16 |
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I am Don Quixote But I Am Not from La Mancha | 04/15/16 |
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Christopher Reeve Another Dancer Who Could Also Fly | 04/08/16 |
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Don Quixote and Albert Einstein The Two Dreamers | 04/04/16 |
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Worthless Windmills Time Will Tell Their Worth | 04/01/16 |
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Bobby or the Donald Picking Mentors | 03/14/16 |
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Could I Have This Dance... For the Rest of My Life? | 03/11/16 |
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Alex Failed... But Danced On. | 03/09/16 |
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What Drives Me? And the Answer Is.... | 03/07/16 |
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Paying Tribute to Steve, Anne, and Dave For Their Assistance | 03/02/16 |
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Two Roads in the Wood Choose Wisely | 02/26/16 |
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The Art of Beating the Grim Reaper Follow Randy Pausch's Example | 02/24/16 |
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Best of Times, Worst of Times It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely | 02/19/16 |
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Buddha's Strange Parable... Which We Need to Understand | 02/15/16 |
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The Value of Dreaming About My List of Dulcineas | 02/12/16 |
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The Third Dance... Maybe or Maybe Not | 02/08/16 |
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The Drinkable Book I Wish I Had One While in Indochina | 02/03/16 |
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Revitalizing My Brain After Winding Up in ICU | 01/25/16 |
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Dreams will come to you.... If You Are True to Your Quest | 01/22/16 |
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Miguel Cervantes As Don Quixote | 01/18/16 |
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"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun." Randy Pausch is Correct | 01/15/16 |
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The Gift of an Angel It is More About My Feelings | 01/06/16 |
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New Year New Booty | 01/01/16 |
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I Know Who I Am... And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me | 12/04/15 |
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Träumerei The Dreaming of Schumann and Me | 12/02/15 |
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Devils Tower... Another Misnamed Parable | 11/30/15 |
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Take Your Passion and Make It Happen Flashdance Follow-up | 11/27/15 |
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Want to See What I'm Wearing for Halloween? A Profound Question | 11/16/15 |
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Pandora Provides Hope... Don Quixote Provides Determination | 11/09/15 |
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Don Quixote Then and Now | 11/04/15 |
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Daring Greatly Or How Failure Frees Us to Succeed | 10/30/15 |
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Doubling Down... To Make Dreams Come True | 10/19/15 |
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It's Confession Time... And It Isn't Sunday | 10/09/15 |
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Collecting Coins A Tradition Continues | 09/28/15 |
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Songs Can Make the World Go Around... Peacefully. | 09/11/15 |
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A Second Look at Life Toward the End of Life | 09/07/15 |
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Agnes Majors in the Minors A Big Fish in a Drying Up Small Pond | 09/04/15 |
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The Desire to Ding the Universe But Why? | 08/28/15 |
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The Value of Pain Or How to Retrieve the Torpedo | 08/21/15 |
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Dinner with GiGi The Socratic Method of an Older Woman | 07/17/15 |
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Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma T. E. Lawrence | 07/13/15 |
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Dancing with Death Allows You to Live | 05/22/15 |
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The Puzzle of Life Solved By... Jack and Owen | 05/15/15 |
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It Is About How You Lead Your Life Start With Refining Words | 05/11/15 |
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"We Get Old Too Soon... And Wise Too Late" | 04/27/15 |
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Two Crazy Captains Chasing Moby Dick Then and Now | 04/03/15 |
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Ode to Joy In the Midst of Pain | 03/27/15 |
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Think about the Legacy that You Leave Will Your Relatives Be Proud of You? | 03/19/15 |
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The Lioness Roars... "Enough Is Enough" | 02/20/15 |
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Obama's Golden Opportunity On Leaving a Legacy | 02/13/15 |
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Looking Back and Remembering Looking Forward and Hoping | 01/20/15 |
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Suffering Yields Success Worrying Yields Warts | 01/14/14 |
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A Hand Is Put Into Theirs... And the Hand May Be a Little Child's | 12/29/14 |
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Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream The Disconnect Between Dreaming and Reality | 12/26/14 |
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Serendipity... Finding Without Looking | 12/12/14 |
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Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915 "I Never Died," Says He. | 11/19/14 |
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Death is the Best Invention of Life Breathing Is Not Living | 11/14/14 |
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Seeing When You Think You See... The Difference is Dazzling. | 10/31/14 |
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A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great "Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal." | 10/17/14 |
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My Dots in Life Get Connected With the Singing of Pete Seeger | 10/06/14 |
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Nothing is Secure Which is a Great Blessing | 10/03/14 |
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Christopher Robin is Correct... However, You Must Believe It Before It Is. | 09/29/14 |
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Wolverton Mountain The Place Where Dreams Occur | 09/26/14 |
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Pushing Oneself... What I Learned from T. S. Eliot | 09/14/14 |
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It is in Giving that We Get... Especially in Restaurants in Valparaiso. | 09/05/14 |
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Darkest Before Dawn A Logical Disconnect that Is True | 08/15/14 |
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Getting Really Organized... Late in Life | 07/31/14 |
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First, It Was a Car and then Women Jack and the Learning Curve to Adulthood | 07/21/14 |
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Old Men Should Plant Trees... And They Should Be Planted Now. | 06/16/14 |
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Connecting the Dots With Jack and Owen Teaching Them To Be Steve Jobs-esque | 06/14/14 |
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It Was Obamacare, then Benghazi... Enter Dr. Rove | 06/06/14 |
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Leaving a Legacy... A Concern of a 71-Year Old. | 05/18/14 |
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The Cosmic Calendar ...and Our Importance on the Pale Blue Dot | 05/15/14 |
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Jack and Owen's First Art Class Assignment... A Piece of Fine Art | 05/09/14 |
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"Hang a Lantern on Your Problems..." So All Can See. | 04/27/14 |
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I See More Clearly... Thanks to Carl Sagan. | 03/24/14 |
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The Blessing and the Curse of the Internet ...Everyone Will Have a Saved Memory | 02/20/14 |
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The Value of Dreaming Instructions from My Cardiologist... | 02/14/14 |
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Never Too Old to Learn My Techy Computer Confession... | 02/01/14 |
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Protest Movements in Myanmar and the US... We Shall Overcome! | 01/30/14 |
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I Have Seen the Light... Thanks to Myanmar and Dr. Marchand | 01/28/14 |
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A Tribute to the Lady Myanmar and the World Will Be Better Because of Her. | 01/14/14 |
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Cromwell's Dissolution of the Long Parliament... Then and Now. | 11/13/13 |
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Obama's Place in History Learning from Accomplishments | 11/09/13 |
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Lawrence of Arabia A Mentor of Mine | 10/18/13 |
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Forrester and I in Our Winters Seasons Change Young Man... | 09/10/13 |
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What I Learned on My Second Trip to Rosslyn It is a Question of Whether to Be Better or Bitter... | 08/08/13 |
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Don Quixote Rides Again... Or Looking Down the Hallway | 08/04/13 |
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Philosophy Can Change Your Lives Or Thinking About Walking in Another's Shoes | 07/23/13 |
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We are All Greeks ...Receiving and Responding | 03/05/13 |
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A Lesson About Life What I Finally Learned When Turning 70 | 01/28/13 |
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The Egyptians and the Republicans ...A Learning from the Past | 01/16/13 |
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Is it a Time to Chill or a Time to Get Busy... That is the Question? | 12/31/12 |
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The Fighting TÉMÉRaire Growing Old and Understanding Art | 12/15/12 |
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Bonhoeffer—Crossing the Line... Thank You: Dietrich, Bobby and Barack | 11/20/12 |
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No Pain, No Gain... Learning to Jump to Success | 09/09/12 |
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Correcting Churchill... The Value of Viewing Life | 08/28/12 |
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On the Road to Mandalay ...A Road Less Traveled | 08/20/12 |
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An Old Man and His Grandson Then and Now | 05/09/12 |
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A Special Gift A Signed One Dollar Bill | 07/07/11 |
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My Friend Harry Talk to Me Next | 06/01/11 |
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Odysseus is My Middle Name My Similarities with Ancient Mariners | 04/25/11 |
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I'm Not Liberal Enough And Neither is America Just Say No to the Just Say No Group | 12/01/10 |
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Bobby and Barack Election of Barack Obama | 09/28/08 |
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Believing in a Dream...Again Maybe Chris Matthews of Hardball was Wrong This Election Cycle | 12/11/07 |
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Biko A Man Who Died for an Idea that Didn't Die | 09/12/07 |
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Freedom of the Mind The Contributions of Stephen Biko | 08/03/06 |