The Mentors and Me...
Domenico Ghirlandaio painting of An Old Man and his Grandson 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. They continued with Louie Palmer, Teddy Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, Bob Woodward, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Bobby Kennedy, T. E. Lawrence, George Santayana, Neil Diamond, Dylan Thomas, Jean Valjean, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gilgamesh, Steve Biko, Don Quixote, Andrea Bocelli, Christopher Hitchens, William Forrester, Anne Perry, Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Aung San Suu Kyi, James Earl Jones, Randy Pausch, Ibn Battuta, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Weissmann, Bo Bo Gyi, Eugene Goodman, Michael McFaul, Dr. Robert Neville, Cory Booker, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The following article is a historically and chronologically accurate composite of the mentors I have had in my life.


What I Learned Being Mentored thumbnail 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.

What Troubles Me What Troubles Me In My Twilight Years 06/13/25
Legends Often Morph into Facts The World About Which I Dream Often Isn’t the World in Which I Live. 06/11/25
The Little One The Little One Has Grown Up 05/28/25
Becoming I Am Legend Becoming I Am Legend In My World 05/26/25
Learning About Vaccines Centuries Ago Learning About Vaccines Centuries Ago What I Didn’t Know But Do Now 05/21/25
Bobby and Being a Legend Bobby and Being a Legend Will Help America 05/07/25
History Repeating Itself History Repeating Itself Unless We Learn From the Past 04/18/25
Thus Saith the Medical Guru.... Thus Saith the Medical Guru.... Wait, Let Me Get This Straight. 04/11/25
Creating My Yellow Brick Road Creating My Yellow Brick Road It’s a Metaphor 04/02/25
We Need to Heed the Warnings We Need to Heed the Warnings.... Quite Early in the Morning 03/31/25
I Wish I Was Still Teaching Art History I Wish I Was Still Teaching Art History But Why? 03/24/25
Then and Now Then and Now History Repeats Itself—Two Out of Three Times 03/21/25
I Am Legend I Am Legend And the Darkseekers 03/14/25
Problems Drive Us Problems Drive Us No Pain, No Gain 03/10/25
Lessons We Need To Learn Lessons We Need To Learn And Not Fade into History 03/05/25
Legends Often Morph into Facts Johnny Appleseed Past and Present 01/24/25
Happy 6th Birthday to A Ngal Lay Happy 6th Birthday to A Ngal Lay My Great Granddaughter 01/06/25
It’s Med Time It’s Med Time-- A Follow-up to Sauna Time 11/22/24
A Saint and a Sinner A Saint and a Sinner Michelle Obama and Lev Parnas 10/30/24
What I Admire about Kamala What I Admire about Kamala And How She Will Change America 10/25/24
Another Eureka Moment Another Eureka Moment Thank You, Nancy 09/30/24
Following in the Footsteps of Lt. Zogg Following in the Footsteps of Lt. Zogg It’s All About Being Determined 09/25/24
Another Parallel Another Parallel With James Earl Jones and Me 09/18/24
Discovering a Mentor Discovering a Mentor In a Field of Dreams 09/13/24
Another Set of Photos Another Set of Photos For Ti Ti from PaPa Al 09/09/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts Becoming a Monkey King It's More Than Mere Monkey Business 09/04/24
The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree “The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree” The Bobby Paradox 08/30/24
We Are All Teachers We Are All Teachers Be Careful What You Teach 08/28/24
Become a Bo Bo Gyi Become a Bo Bo Gyi It's About Giving to Get. 08/26/24
The Snowman vs Allen The Snowman vs Allen How To Change the World 08/23/24
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let the World Know Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let the World Know It is Snow’s Birthday! 07/22/24
A Parable about Geese A Parable about Geese Waddle or Fly 07/10/24
How to Become Rich How to Become Rich Without Any Much Money 07/01/24
My Grandmother’s Words My Grandmother’s Words Haunt and Inspire Me 05/20/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts What I Discovered When I Wasn’t Looking 04/08/24
We are made of star-stuff “We Are Made of Star-Stuff,” But We Don’t Realize It. 03/27/24
Bo Bo Gyi Bo Bo Gyi And His Advice to His Granddaughter 02/19/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts Kicking the Can Down the Road, Again 50th Mass Shootings in America This Year 02/16/24
Snow and Fatty Snow and Fatty Are Following in Ti Ti’s Footsteps 01/19/24
First, There was Jacques Cousteau First, There was Jacques Cousteau Now, There is Ti Ti 01/12/24
This Is a True Story... This Is a True Story... About Guts 01/03/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts Do You Hear the People Sing... Who Will Not Be Slaves Again! 12/22/23
What Would T.E. Lawrence Do What Would T.E. Lawrence Do In Gaza and Israel? 11/29/23
A Future Thanksgiving A Future Thanksgiving Far, Far Away 11/22/23
The Reason for Being The Reason for Being An Either/Or Situation 11/03/23
The Ripple Effect The Ripple Effect An Either/Or Issue 11/01/23
Sagan’s Golden Records Sagan’s Golden Records On the Horns of a Dilemma 10/27/23
Breath of Fresh Air Breath of Fresh Air From My Web Administrator 10/20/23
Lawrence of Arabia... Lawrence of Arabia... A Mentor of Mine 10/11/23
The Importance of Happenstance The Importance of Happenstance For Heavenly Clauses 09/08/23
Holding Hands with Neal Katyal Holding Hands with Neal Katyal What My Teacher Taught Me 08/21/23
picture-of What I Learned In My Twilight Years Giotto Revisited 08/04/23
The Young and Fearless at Heart “The Young and Fearless at Heart” The Hope for the World 05/29/23
Gosh Josh Gosh Josh You Are So into Your Masculinity 05/24/23
Heart of Royalty Heart of Royalty An Either or Choice 05/10/23
Find Your Gift Find Your Gift And Gave It Away 04/21/23
Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas Teaching Gilgamesh to Thomas 04/19/23
The Times They Are A-Changin’ Again The Times They Are A-Changin’ Again The Tennessee Three 04/17/23
A Suggestion of a Mentor A Suggestion of a Mentor A Sequel to Picking a Mentor Article 04/07/23
Picking Mentors Picking Mentors Choose Wisely 04/05/23
The Effects of the Sun’s Coronal Hole The Effects of the Sun’s Coronal Hole Be Prepared 03/27/23
NASA Discovered Six Massive Galaxies NASA Discovered Six Massive Galaxies So What? 03/08/23
Music Explains Me Music Explains Me Music Drives Me 03/03/23
Happy Birthday Moh Moh Happy Birthday Moh Moh And Many More 02/27/23
Jabbering Parrots Jabbering Parrots What We Can Learn from Churchill and Buffett 02/22/23
Threading the Needle Threading the Needle To Address Racism 02/17/23
Learning from Lao Tzu Learning from Lao Tzu To Live Life Daringly 02/13/23
Learning from Two Astrophysicists Learning from Two Astrophysicists About this World 02/10/23
Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi Addressing Our Nation’s Problems 02/06/23
What’s It All About Alfie? What’s It All About Alfie? From an Eighty-Year Old Alfie 01/20/23
My Quest for Eldorado My Quest for Eldorado In Three Parts 01/16/23
The Benefit of Pain The Benefit of Pain Take Advantage of It 01/02/23
What Drove My Father and Drives Me? What Drove My Father and Drives Me? Pain 12/30/22
It’s All About We It’s All About We An Important Lesson of Life 12/26/22
I Wish that I Had Asked My Father I Wish that I Had Asked My Father About WWII 12/19/22
Repeating the Past...Part II Repeating the Past...Part II Tokyo Rose 12/16/22
I Could Hear the Silence I Could Hear the Silence While I Raged 12/12/22
Problems are Assets Problems are Assets Seize the Problems 12/09/22
My Way My Way Morphing to My Mentoring 12/02/22
A Picture is Worth a Billion Words A Picture is Worth a Billion Words Or Pick Your Mentors Wisely 11/30/22
If You Are Looking for a Mentor... If You Are Looking for a Mentor... I Have a Suggestion 11/28/22
My Twilight Hauntings... My Twilight Hauntings... About Immortality 11/25/22
Camelot Revisited Camelot Revisited By Looking Again at the Past 11/07/22
Growing Up Without Transparency Growing Up Without Transparency And Finally Discovering It 10/14/22
Trying Times Trying Times Testing Souls 09/23/22
Picking Mentors Will Change Your Life Picking Mentors It Will Change Your Life 09/09/22
Narcissus of the Past And Narcissus of the Present 08/19/22
One of My Mantras Gals Pick Your Mentors Carefully 07/27/22
A Lesson About Life… Don’t Fear Death… 07/24/22
My Place in the Universe I Don’t Want to be Lost in Space 07/15/22
Grasping Reality While My Clock Is Ticking 04/29/22
Building Castles in the Sky Pushing the Limits of Possibility 04/13/22
Heaven and Hell What’s It All About, Alfie 04/08/22
When Choosing Mentors… Think 04/01/22
Seeing the Future At Least Three Times 03/30/22
My Family in Myanmar: A Sequel to What’s It All About 03/28/22
Where Do We Draw the Line in the Sand? It Depends 03/25/22
Ginger and I What’s It All About and Why? 03/21/22
The Helter-Skelter Mindset1 Locally and Globally 03/09/22
My Personality Quirks… I Have Several 02/16/22
More Parallels Between Myanmar and America Aung San and Bobby Kennedy 02/07/22
My Dream of Diversity In the Footsteps of Bobby 02/02/22
Diversity Is the Answer But What Is the Question? 01/31/22
“Better To Reign in Hell… Than Serve in heaven.” 01/12/22
A Reason for Being… The Most Important Reason for My Being 12/31/21
Moh Moh’s Roles in Our Family: My Daughter and My Mother 12/06/21
I Love My Family With Some Caveats 12/03/21
Archimedes and the Syracusia It’s All About Dreaming 12/01/21
Waking Up… To Getting Old 11/29/21
“The Moving Finger Writes” Another Teaching Moment 11/26/21
I’m the Reincarnation of Bo Bo Gyi According to Fatty 11/12/21
It Starts with Education… And Ends with Reform. 11/10/21
From a Ripple to a Raging Current Based Upon Reciprocity 11/03/21
A New World Order The World from Campbell’s Perspective 11/01/21
A New Ripple And a Purposeful Life 10/27/21
The Duality of Changing Times Change, and We Change 10/22/21
Societal Dreaming Delayed but Not Dashed 10/18/21
A Dream Delayed Or a Dream Dashed 10/13/21
A Ngal Lay Sent Me Pictures and a Video About Our Time Together 09/20/21
Revisiting Gilgamesh A Teaching Moment 09/17/21
My Great-Granddaughter… A Ngal Lay 09/15/21
Realizing the New Normal What’s All About, Alfie? 08/30/21
What Can We Learn from Art? The Answer Is…. 08/18/21
Gandhi’s Tribute to Moh Moh For Her Indomitable Will 08/11/21
Sir Gawain, the Knight Doing What a Knight Does 08/01/21
A Follow-Up to Snow’s Email Another Teaching Moment 07/26/21
We Are Cave Men But What Is Our Purpose in Life? 07/23/21
Happy Birthday, Snow Time To Remember 07/21/21
Write On Advice from PaPa Al, aka Grandpa 06/28/21
The Little One, A Part of My Family 06/09/21
Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen Happy Birthday 06/02/21
The Haunting Question Which Sir Launfal Are You? 04/30/21
He Is My Brother On This Pale Blue Dot 04/28/21
A Religious Disconnect A Human Disconnect 04/21/21
Learning from Collecting Written by a Collector of Treasures 04/16/21
Are You Looking for a Mentor? This is My Advice 04/12/21
A Survivor’s Guide For Living in a Post-Trumpian World 04/09/21
A Trilogy of Choices Either Rewriting History, Editing History, or Reliving History 03/31/21
I Told You SoPride Goeth Before Destruction 03/24/21
Meghan, Harry, and ArchieAddress Royal Racism 03/17/21
What Demosthenes, Bobby Kennedy, and Gilgamesh… Could Teach Mumbling Mitch 03/12/21
We Over Me… Or Me Over We 03/08/21
Getting My Second COVID Shot… And Immortality 03/05/21
A Tale of Two Countries And a Present-Day Theme and Variation of Life 03/03/21
Stopping in the WoodsWhile Dreaming Dreams 01/27/21
There are Facts…And There are Fake Facts. 01/20/21
Purposeful LivesOn Steroids 01/13/21
A Secret About LifeHow To Be Successful 12/21/20
The Devil Made Me Do It. A Presidential Duet 10/09/20
Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity 10/07/20
This Is an AddendumTi Ti, the Bridge Builder 09/25/20
From Then to NowWhat a Difference Seven Years Has Made 09/23/20
Masks Matter…To Some 09/16/20
Two PoemsBy Two Ladies 09/14/20
A Present Day Parable for AmericaIt Is All About Sharing 09/11/20
There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming 08/07/20
"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.” 07/20/20
Ti Ti’s Spin on My WeltanschauungAnd Mine on Hers 06/01/20
It Is All About FamilyAnd Who Makes Up Our Family 05/20/20
Our Reason for BeingDiscover It 05/18/20
Regarding Dancing with CoronavirusCampbell’s Five Commandments 03/25/20
Trump’s NemesisPresident Obama 03/16/20
I Don’t Like FailingModus Operandi 03/13/20
Think Before You ActThen Dare Greatly 03/09/20
How Playing Scrabble Changed My LifeWho Would Have Thought? 02/28/20
The Republican TrinitySessions, Bolton, and Roberts 01/31/20
A Present-Day ParableWhich Can Be Understood 01/24/20
My Swan SongAnd My Family’s Swan Song 01/17/20
I Found Another Incarnation of Bo Bo GyiWhile on Inle Lake 01/15/20
I Found Another Incarnation of Bo Bo GyiWhile on Inle Lake 01/15/20
Trump and Stalin Every Pictures Tells a Story 05/31/19
Carl Sagan The World Learned Much from Him 05/06/19
Wanderlust Travel with No Regret 05/01/19
I Wander and Wonder But I Am Not Lost 04/22/19
Three Songs Morphed Together Creating Meaning in Life 03/22/19
The Purpose of the Universe Or My Window on the World 03/20/19
Warren Buffett Don’t Sleep Walk Through Life 02/22/19
The Wall Issue The True Value of a Wall 01/14/19
Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It. 01/11/19
Reflections on The Magnificent Seven… 12/12/18
The Magnificent Seven… My Dream Team 12/07/18
On Making Your Mark And Leaving It 10/22/18
Sexism in Society Especially in Washington 10/05/18
Jack and Owen Jack and Owen Make Bananas Flambé 06/13/18
follow-up thumbnail My Follow-Up… To My Email To Ti Ti 03/19/18
question thumbnail The Question Is… How Will You Be Remembered? 02/26/18
attempt-to-do thumbnail What Would You Attempt To Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail? 02/21/18
water-horse thumbnail The Water Horse of Loch Ness And Our Water Horses of Life 02/07/18
bobby-runt thumbnail Bobby the Runt Turned into Bobby the Leader 01/17/18
meaning-of-life thumbnail My Thoughts about the Meaning of Life My Perspective from My Twilight Years 01/05/18
another-breakfast thumbnail Another Breakfast with My Shrink Dealing with Dreaming 01/01/18
Dreaming Dreams thumbnail Dreaming Dreams that Never Were... Asking Why Not. 12/15/17
Picking Mentors thumbnail On Picking Mentors Pick Carefully 12/01/17
Kepler Looking thumbnail What is Kepler Looking For? Intelligent Life in the Universe 11/15/17
Tattoo of Pooh thumbnail The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me Ginger and Don Quixote 11/10/17
Ashley and Michael thumbnail What I Owe Ashley and Michael Wall Removal 10/11/17
I'm On the Road Again thumbnail I’m On the Road Again But Why? 09/08/17
When Dreaming thumbnail When Dreams Aren’t Realized What Should You Do? 09/01/17
Akhenaten thumbnail Akhenaten... My Mentor 08/25/17
Get Educated thumbnail Get Educated— Travel 08/23/17
Essay with No Words thumbnail Essay with No Words But Look At My Eyes 08/21/17
Me and My Shrink thumbnail Me and My Shrink Dealing With What Drives Me 08/16/17
Ti Ti Poem thumbnail Ti Ti and I A Most Haunting Relationship 08/04/17
Burma Road thumbnail What Did I Learn... From Vinegar Joe 07/05/17
Frobisher's Quests thumbnail Frobisher’s Quests The Northwest Passage and Gold 05/31/17
Global Warming thumbnail HMS Terror, HMS Erebus, Global Warming… Or Nonsense from Those Godless Chinese Communists 05/26/17
To Become thumbnail To Become… What You Might Have Been 04/28/17
Getting It Together thumbnail Getting It Together… An Avenue to Acquiring Dreams 04/26/17
The Meaning of Life thumbnail The Meaning of Life It Is All About Fighting the Good Fight for Others 04/19/17
Bowl of Cherries thumbnail Life Is a Bowl of Cherries Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men 04/14/17
The Efforts of the Lady thumbnail The Efforts of the Lady vs. The Efforts of Donald the Dumb 04/12/17
Chick Magnet thumbnail Chick Magnet And the Hauntings 03/31/17
Shrimp Can Whistle thumbnail Shrimp Can Whistle "I dream things that never were and say, why not." 03/08/17
Invictus thumbnail Invictus Thank You, Mrs. Davis 03/06/17
Robert the Bruce thumbnail Robert the Bruce I'll Drink to Him! 02/17/17
I'm Hanging My Lantern thumbnail I'm Hanging My Lantern For All To See 12/23/16
Accomplishing Things in Life... thumbnail Accomplishing Things in Life... Even Long Shots 12/16/16
Teach Your Children, Part 2 thumbnail Teach Your Children, Part 2 But When? 12/12/16
Mentor Tell You Something About You thumbnail Mentor Tell You Something About You The Value of Post-it Notes 12/09/16
Only Those Who Dare to Fail... thumbnail Only Those Who Dare to Fail... Can Achieve 12/05/16
Moh Moh's Email thumbnail Moh Moh's Email Big Dreams Never Run Smooth 12/02/16
The Lady, Bobby, and Bagan thumbnail The Lady, Bobby, and Bagan Triangulation Process 11/14/16
Jack and Owen, the Artists thumbnail Jack and Owen, the Artists Determined Artists 11/11/16
On the Road Again... thumbnail On the Road Again... Like a Gypsy 11/07/16
What a Difference a Few Years Makes thumbnail What a Difference a Few Years Makes If You Are Joisting with Windmills 10/10/16
Dealing with Impossible Dreams Realistically... thumbnail Dealing with Impossible Dreams Realistically... Or Getting All My Ducks Lined Up 09/26/16
Moh Moh Spoke thumbnail Moh Moh Spoke And She Sounded Like Don Quixote 09/09/16
thumbnail Return to Myanmar Dream Big 09/02/16
Rediscovering the Past... thumbnail Rediscovering the Past... Eleanor Roosevelt 08/31/16
The Meaning Behind the Man thumbnail The Meaning Behind the Man The Man of La Mancha 08/29/16
Trying and Failing... thumbnail Trying and Failing... Is Better than Failing without Trying 08/26/16
Listening to My Mentors thumbnail Listening to My Mentors And Dreaming Impossible Dreams 08/19/16
The Terrorism Trifecta thumbnail The Terrorism Trifecta Three More Dances with Death 08/12/16
The Maltese Falcon Talked thumbnail The Maltese Falcon Talked And I Listened 08/10/16
Bobby Kennedy thumbnail Bobby Kennedy Still Reaches Out to Us. 07/29/16
My Love Letters thumbnail My Love Letters They Must Be Written 07/22/16
We Shall Overcome thumbnail We Shall Overcome A Belief Amid Darkness 07/18/16
Dealing with Dreams that Could Have Been... thumbnail Dealing with Dreams that Could Have Been... But Aren't 07/15/16
Prediction of Clinton's Running Mate thumbnail Prediction of Clinton's Running Mate And Her Running Mate Is.... 07/08/16
I Come in a World of Iron... thumbnail "I Come in a World of Iron... To Make a World of Gold." 06/27/16
Bloody Hands and No Backbone thumbnail Bloody Hands and No Backbone What a Legacy 06/20/16
My Sherpa Statue Spoke thumbnail My Sherpa Statue Spoke A Valuable Time Spent Listening 06/17/16
The Angel Spoke... thumbnail The Angel Spoke... And I Listened. 06/10/16
Mr. Turner thumbnail Mr. Turner The Dualism of Feelings 05/06/16
An Anniversary Has Arrived.... thumbnail An Anniversary Has Arrived.... The Fifth Anniversary. 05/02/16
Rewriting History thumbnail Rewriting History To Fit Our Notions 04/22/16
I am Don Quixote thumbnail I am Don Quixote But I Am Not from La Mancha 04/15/16
Christopher Reeve thumbnail Christopher Reeve Another Dancer Who Could Also Fly 04/08/16
Don Quixote and Albert Einstein thumbnail Don Quixote and Albert Einstein The Two Dreamers 04/04/16
Worthless Windmills thumbnail Worthless Windmills Time Will Tell Their Worth 04/01/16
Bobby or the Donald thumbnail Bobby or the Donald Picking Mentors 03/14/16
Could I Have This Dance... thumbnail Could I Have This Dance... For the Rest of My Life? 03/11/16
Alex Failed... thumbnail Alex Failed... But Danced On. 03/09/16
What Drives Me? thumbnail What Drives Me? And the Answer Is.... 03/07/16
Paying Tribute to Steve, Anne, and Dave thumbnail Paying Tribute to Steve, Anne, and Dave For Their Assistance 03/02/16
Two Roads in the Wood thumbnail Two Roads in the Wood Choose Wisely 02/26/16
The Art of Beating the Grim Reaper thumbnail The Art of Beating the Grim Reaper Follow Randy Pausch's Example 02/24/16
Best of Times, Worst of Times thumbnail Best of Times, Worst of Times It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely 02/19/16
Buddha's Strange Parable... thumbnail Buddha's Strange Parable... Which We Need to Understand 02/15/16
The Value of Dreaming thumbnail The Value of Dreaming About My List of Dulcineas 02/12/16
The Third Dance... thumbnail The Third Dance... Maybe or Maybe Not 02/08/16
The Drinkable Book thumbnail The Drinkable Book I Wish I Had One While in Indochina 02/03/16
Revitalizing My Brain thumbnail Revitalizing My Brain After Winding Up in ICU 01/25/16
Dreams will come to you.... thumbnail Dreams will come to you.... If You Are True to Your Quest 01/22/16
Miguel Cervantes thumbnail Miguel Cervantes As Don Quixote 01/18/16
"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun." Randy Pausch is Correct 01/15/16
The Gift of an Angel thumbnail The Gift of an Angel It is More About My Feelings 01/06/16
New Year thumbnail New Year New Booty 01/01/16
I Know Who I Am... thumbnail I Know Who I Am... And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me 12/04/15
Traumerei< thumbnail Träumerei The Dreaming of Schumann and Me 12/02/15
Devils Tower... thumbnail Devils Tower... Another Misnamed Parable 11/30/15
Take Your Passion and Make It Happen thumbnail Take Your Passion and Make It Happen Flashdance Follow-up 11/27/15
Want to See What I'm Wearing for Halloween? thumbnail Want to See What I'm Wearing for Halloween? A Profound Question 11/16/15
Pandora Provides Hope... thumbnail Pandora Provides Hope... Don Quixote Provides Determination 11/09/15
Don Quixote thumbnail Don Quixote Then and Now 11/04/15
Daring Greatly thumbnail Daring Greatly Or How Failure Frees Us to Succeed 10/30/15
Doubling Down... thumbnail Doubling Down... To Make Dreams Come True 10/19/15
It's Confession Time... thumbnail It's Confession Time... And It Isn't Sunday 10/09/15
Collecting Coins thumbnail Collecting Coins A Tradition Continues 09/28/15
Songs Can Make the World Go Around... thumbnail Songs Can Make the World Go Around... Peacefully. 09/11/15
A Second Look at Life thumbnail A Second Look at Life Toward the End of Life 09/07/15
Agnes Majors in the Minors thumbnail Agnes Majors in the Minors A Big Fish in a Drying Up Small Pond 09/04/15
The Desire to Ding the Universe thumbnail The Desire to Ding the Universe But Why? 08/28/15
The Value of Pain thumbnail The Value of Pain Or How to Retrieve the Torpedo 08/21/15
Dinner with GiGi thumbnail Dinner with GiGi The Socratic Method of an Older Woman 07/17/15
Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma thumbnail Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma T. E. Lawrence 07/13/15
thumbnail Dancing with Death Allows You to Live 05/22/15
The Puzzle of Life Solved By... thumbnail The Puzzle of Life Solved By... Jack and Owen 05/15/15
It Is About How You Lead Your Life thumbnail It Is About How You Lead Your Life Start With Refining Words 05/11/15
We Get Old Too Soon... thumbnail "We Get Old Too Soon... And Wise Too Late" 04/27/15
Two Crazy Captains Chasing Moby Dick thumbnail Two Crazy Captains Chasing Moby Dick Then and Now 04/03/15
Ode to Joy thumbnail Ode to Joy In the Midst of Pain 03/27/15
Think about the Legacy that You Leave thumbnail Think about the Legacy that You Leave Will Your Relatives Be Proud of You? 03/19/15
The Lioness Roars... thumbnail The Lioness Roars... "Enough Is Enough" 02/20/15
Obama's Golden Opportunity thumbnail Obama's Golden Opportunity On Leaving a Legacy 02/13/15
Looking Back and Remembering thumbnail Looking Back and Remembering Looking Forward and Hoping 01/20/15
Suffering Yields Success thumbnail Suffering Yields Success Worrying Yields Warts 01/14/14
A Hand Is Put Into Theirs... thumbnail A Hand Is Put Into Theirs... And the Hand May Be a Little Child's 12/29/14
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream thumbnail Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream The Disconnect Between Dreaming and Reality 12/26/14
Serendipity... thumbnail Serendipity... Finding Without Looking 12/12/14
Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915 thumbnail Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915 "I Never Died," Says He. 11/19/14
Death is the Best Invention of Life thumbnail Death is the Best Invention of Life Breathing Is Not Living 11/14/14
Seeing When You Think You See... thumbnail Seeing When You Think You See... The Difference is Dazzling. 10/31/14
A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great thumbnail A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great "Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal." 10/17/14
My Dots in Life Get Connected thumbnail My Dots in Life Get Connected With the Singing of Pete Seeger 10/06/14
Nothing is Secure thumbnail Nothing is Secure Which is a Great Blessing 10/03/14
Christopher Robin is Correct... thumbnail Christopher Robin is Correct... However, You Must Believe It Before It Is. 09/29/14
Wolverton Mountain thumbnail Wolverton Mountain The Place Where Dreams Occur 09/26/14
Pushing Oneself... thumbnail Pushing Oneself... What I Learned from T. S. Eliot 09/14/14
It is in Giving that We Get... thumbnail It is in Giving that We Get... Especially in Restaurants in Valparaiso. 09/05/14
Darkest Before Dawn thumbnail Darkest Before Dawn A Logical Disconnect that Is True 08/15/14
Getting Really Organized... thumbnail Getting Really Organized... Late in Life 07/31/14
First, It Was a Car and then Women thumbnail First, It Was a Car and then Women Jack and the Learning Curve to Adulthood 07/21/14
Old Men Should Plant Trees... thumbnail Old Men Should Plant Trees... And They Should Be Planted Now. 06/16/14
Connecting the Dots With Jack and Owen thumbnail Connecting the Dots With Jack and Owen Teaching Them To Be Steve Jobs-esque 06/14/14
It Was Obamacare, then Benghazi... thumbnail It Was Obamacare, then Benghazi... Enter Dr. Rove 06/06/14
Leaving a Legacy... thumbnail Leaving a Legacy... A Concern of a 71-Year Old. 05/18/14
The Cosmic Calendar thumbnail The Cosmic Calendar ...and Our Importance on the Pale Blue Dot 05/15/14
Jack and Owen's First Art Class Assignment... thumbnail Jack and Owen's First Art Class Assignment... A Piece of Fine Art 05/09/14
Hang a Lantern on Your Problems... thumbnail "Hang a Lantern on Your Problems..." So All Can See. 04/27/14
I See More Clearly... thumbnail I See More Clearly... Thanks to Carl Sagan. 03/24/14
The Blessing and the Curse of the Internet thumbnail The Blessing and the Curse of the Internet ...Everyone Will Have a Saved Memory 02/20/14
The Value of Dreaming thumbnail The Value of Dreaming Instructions from My Cardiologist... 02/14/14
Never Too Old to Learn thumbnail Never Too Old to Learn My Techy Computer Confession... 02/01/14
Protest Movements in Myanmar and the US... thumbnail Protest Movements in Myanmar and the US... We Shall Overcome! 01/30/14
I Have Seen the Light... thumbnail I Have Seen the Light... Thanks to Myanmar and Dr. Marchand 01/28/14
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