I have taught art history for years and admire the post-impressionist, Vincent van Gogh. I especially love Starry Night. I have seen Starry Night while it was on loan at the Art Institute in Chicago years ago. Van Gogh painted the town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence from his hospital room in June of 1889. He struggled much of his life with a long list of medical and emotional problems. One of his major problems was his eyesight. Nonetheless, van Gogh paints a nighttime scene of the village while wrestling with his seeing issues.
While I never was in a sanatorium like van Gogh, I had a recent appointment with my cardiologist, Dr. Marchand. It was a routine checkup for high blood pressure. All was well with my heart. However, I asked him why I was so wound-up having just returned from Myanmar/Burma. He replied that it was due to my endorphins. I pressed him further about why my endorphins were up.
Dr. Marchand understood that I wanted to know. I am different than I was prior to going to Myanmar. He paused, looked directly into my eyes, and said, "You have seen the light." While our eyes remained locked with each other, he paused, and said nothing more. Once he knew that I had gotten his message, he told me that he would see me in six months. I will never forget that office visit with Dr. Marchand.
Like van Gogh, I was living but not seeing everything. Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night, and I saw the light.
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First, It Was Trump Now, It’s Giuliani | 05/22/23 |
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The Disaster at Lakehurst And a Possible Disaster on Whitman Terrace | 05/17/23 |
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Stupid is as Stupid Does Let’s Get Real | 05/12/23 |
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Pomp and Nonsense It’s Raining on My Parade | 05/08/23 |
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AI Has Come of Age And Who Is Greater? | 05/05/23 |
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Watergate To Mar-o-Largogate What Will the Crooks Do? | 05/03/23 |
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Les Misérables Then and Now Chevalier the Latest Incarnation | 04/24/23 |
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Find Your Gift And Gave It Away | 04/21/23 |
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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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I’m Alive Because I’m White If I Wasn’t White.... | 04/14/23 |
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Picking Mentors Choose Wisely | 04/05/23 |
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What’s It All About Ginger? The Haunting Question | 04/03/23 |
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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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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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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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Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi Addressing Our Nation’s Problems | 02/06/23 |
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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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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 |
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What Drove My Father and Drives Me? Pain | 12/30/22 |
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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 Greek” 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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Seeing Things More Clearly On My Yellow Brick Road | 08/22/22 |
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A King Cobra Pitted Against a Python A Teaching Moment | 08/22/22 |
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Hoosier’s Neighbor? The Ultimate Question | 08/17/22 |
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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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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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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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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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Doing the Dance on Steroids And Promises to Keep | 06/29/22 |
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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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The Trinity of Evil Monkeys See as Monkeys Do | 06/10/22 |
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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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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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Diversity Visas What’s That All About, Alfie? | 04/24/22 |
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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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Heaven and Hell What’s It All About, Alfie | 04/08/22 |
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I Have Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 04/04/22 |
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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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Ginger and I What’s It All About and Why? | 03/21/22 |
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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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The Helter-Skelter Mindset1 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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If Everything Around You Seems Dark… Look Again. You May Be the Light. | 02/26/22 |
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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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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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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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“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 But the Backstory Is More Important | 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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A Reason for Being… The Most Important Reason for My Being | 12/31/21 |
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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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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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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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I Never Miss a Teaching Moment But Who Benefits | 11/19/21 |
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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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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 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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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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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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Realizing the New Normal What’s All About, Alfie? | 08/30/21 |
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What Can We Learn from Art? The Answer Is…. | 08/18/21 |
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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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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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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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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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More Apologies Expressed To My Physicians | 06/21/21 |
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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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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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Problems Offer a Choice Either a Cul-de-sac or a Challenge | 04/23/21 |
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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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My Quest to Find Meaning Life My Search for My Holy Grail | 04/07/21 |
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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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What’s It All About Aldie My Haunting Question | 03/19/21 |
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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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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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Finding ImmortalityGilgamesh and Ti Ti | 01/22/21 |
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Purposeful LivesOn Steroids | 01/13/21 |
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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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Your Meaning of Being…What Is It? | 12/14/20 |
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Bobby Burns’ Message…For Ti Ti | 11/23/20 |
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It Was Four Years AgoAnd What a Difference Four Years Makes | 11/02/20 |
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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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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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This is Success in the MakingYou Heard It First from PaPa Al | 09/30/20 |
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This Is an AddendumTi Ti, the Bridge Builder | 09/25/20 |
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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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Coming Home to RoostKierkegaard, Mt. Lebanon, Dancing, and My Family | 09/04/20 |
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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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A Teaching MomentWhile Walking Ginger | 07/31/20 |
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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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"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.” | 07/20/20 |
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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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“We See No White-Winged Angels Now…”But We See Little Children | 07/01/20 |
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Another of Santayana’s Teaching Moment Maybe We Will Learn This Time | 06/24/20 |
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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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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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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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Ti Ti…The Amazing Young Lady | 04/29/20 |
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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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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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Regarding Dancing with CoronavirusCampbell’s Five Commandments | 03/25/20 |
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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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Circle of LifeDance On | 03/06/20 |
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“Let’s Get Going.”An Important Lesson of Life (FLASH: The lost video sound is back) |
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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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Than’s Interview of Me | 02/17/20 |
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Snowaka Eppie | 02/14/20 |
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Happy Birthday Fatty…An Incarnation of Eppie | 02/12/20 |
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Than Tun OoArtist and Friend | 02/10/20 |
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Seeing Yourself as Others See You…Which is More Clearly | 02/07/20 |
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The Teak BridgePart 2 of a 4 Parts Series | 01/29/20 |
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Theseus and Me A Ball of String or Modafinil | 10/02/19 |
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Autotelic Vincent, Me, and Modafinil | 09/27/19 |
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Thoughts About Willie Nelson’s Song…. On the Road Again | 08/14/19 |
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Starry, Starry Night…. What Do You See? | 08/12/19 |
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My Next Adventure: The Die is Cast | 08/02/19 |
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My Family Escaped From the Jurassic Park in Myanmar | 06/21/19 |
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Family Who Is Your Family? | 06/17/19 |
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“Go Fly a Kite!” Franklin Did | 06/10/19 |
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Prometheus, Galileo, and Nietzsche Verses Zeus, God, and Nihilism | 05/22/19 |
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Nietzsche Apparently Read Thoreau But I Have Read Much of Both | 05/17/19 |
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Nietzsche, Pathétique, and No Pain, No Gain Part Two of One-Liners | 05/15/19 |
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Nietzsche Wanted Two Things in Life: Music and a Dancing God | 05/13/19 |
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Purpose of Our Being What’s It All About, Alfie | 05/10/19 |
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Carl Sagan The World Learned Much from Him | 05/06/19 |
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Pathétique A Way to Live Life | 05/03/19 |
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Wanderlust Travel with No Regret | 05/01/19 |
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Ti Ti and Oscar Wilde’s Advice No Excuses and No Regrets | 04/19/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Jacob Soboroff | 04/15/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Clarence Page | 04/12/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Rod Stewart | 04/10/19 |
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Scared! Seen as a Teaching Moment | 04/08/19 |
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It Is A Bridge Too Far Only If You Are a Coward | 04/03/19 |
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Coffin Bridge… Build What You Need | 04/01/19 |
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Vocation of An Old Man… Being a Bridge Builder | 03/29/19 |
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I Will Rage, Rage… On Behalf of 1250 Students and One Celestial Comet | 03/25/19 |
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The Purpose of the Universe Or My Window on the World | 03/20/19 |
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Ti Ti… A Remarkable Young Lady | 03/18/19 |
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Dealing with the Reaper By Coming Alive and Living | 03/13/19 |
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One Moment in Time Carpe Diem | 03/04/19 |
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Inferiority Complex Womb Envy vs. Penis Envy | 02/25/19 |
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics And Trump and Entropy | 02/20/19 |
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Tintern Abbey Viewed by Wordsworth and Turner | 02/18/19 |
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My Fistful of Meā Culpā… To Our President | 02/15/19 |
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I Made a Mistake… Imagine That | 02/13/19 |
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This Essay Is About Morphing Pelosi, Donald the Dumb, Pausch, Gandhi, and Me | 02/11/19 |
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Something to Dream About While Waiting for the IRS’s Approval | 02/08/19 |
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Light at the End of the Tunnel However, the Tunnel is an Illusion | 02/06/19 |
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The Value of Pain Can Produce Ultimate Bliss | 02/04/19 |
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A Very Brief History of Sexism in Science It All Started with a Blinking Neutron Star | 02/01/19 |
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Solution for the Wall Issue in Washington… Have Another Wall | 01/30/19 |
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This Essay Addresses Alfie What’s It All About? | 01/28/19 |
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Two Despicables Who Saw the Light Colson and Cohen | 01/23/19 |
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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 | 01/09/19 |
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Thanksgiving Celebration… In Nyaung Shwe | 01/04/19 |
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A New Year’s Eve With a New Resolution for the Coming Year | 12/31/18 |
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It’s All About Family I Agree with John Lewis | 12/17/18 |
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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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Way Back Home… In America and Myanmar | 11/28/18 |
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I Celebrate Two Thanksgiving Days… And This Is Why | 11/22/18 |
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Building a Log Cabin You Are Really Smart; I’ll Tell My Brother | 11/12/18 |
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Serendipitous Moments in My Life And They Are Haunting Me | 10/31/18 |
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Donald the Dumb Should Have Taken Art History | 10/26/18 |
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Keep Calm And Things Seem to Work Out | 10/24/18 |
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Bette Davis Eyes… But They Are in Myanmar | 10/19/18 |
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Rhythm of My Heart Here and Abroad | 10/03/18 |
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Being a Young Turk… During the 20th Century | 09/26/18 |
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A Noble Person… Meets Another Noble Person | 09/17/18 |
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Hand of a Little Child… Ti Ti | 09/12/18 |
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McCain’s Life and Death The Life and Times of a Great American | 09/10/18 |
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Deep State Bob Woodward and Me | 08/15/18 |
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Be a Dreamer.... And Never Quit Dreaming. | 08/10/18 |
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Snow, the Virtuoso Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev | 08/06/18 |
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It Is In Giving That We Get Being Like Bobby | 08/03/18 |
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Parallels Between the Spider Woman and Me Money | 07/27/18 |
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Why Papa? Answering the Why Questions | 07/27/18 |
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The Ripple Effect… “…Can Sweep Down the Mightiest Walls.” | 07/23/18 |
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Eppie… Then and Now | 07/20/18 |
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Ti Ti’s Birthday Present On Her 14th Birthday | 07/16/18 |
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It’s All Begins with Making My Bed— Which Ginger Unmakes | 07/13/18 |
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The Weaker Sex Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex | 07/11/18 |
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If I Fail… I Will While Daring Greatly | 07/06/18 |
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Possible Explanations of Death A Personal Apocalypse | 06/29/18 |
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Teach Your Children Well Lasko and Trump They are Coming To Get You…. | 06/22/18 |
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Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty Having Fun Without PaPa Al | 06/20/18 |
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Stephen Hawking Left Us a Great Deal We Need To Follow Our Science Professor | 06/15/18 |
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Clarity About Dancing Being Arthur Murray in the Real World | 06/11/18 |
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The Goddess Ganga The Transcendence of Reality | 06/06/18 |
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Explaining Doing the Dance… Man, the Lights Are Bright | 05/23/18 |
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Who Are Your Mentors? Here Are Mine | 05/21/18 |
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Ten Years and Counting What a Difference a Dance Makes | 05/18/18 |
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758 Horns of a Dilemma The House of Cards | 05/16/18 |
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Forrester and Jamal You and I | 05/11/18 |
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Projection Lock Him Up | 05/07/18 |
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Moh Moh, Bobby, and Me…. All Dreamers | 04/30/18 |
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A Wrinkle in Time Thinking Outside the Box | 04/25/18 |
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Dear PaPa Al..... Dear Ti Ti | 04/16/18 |
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Frederick Douglass A Better Man Than I | 04/13/18 |
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Bobby’s Suggestion About My Problems… A School in Taunggyi, Myanmar | 04/06/18 |
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Pictures from My Myanmar Family Pictures…Part II | 03/23/18 |
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Marner and Eppie Me and the Girls | 03/16/18 |
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I Want to Have My Last Lecture at Harvard On March 9, 2043 | 03/09/18 |
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The Question Is… How Will You Be Remembered? | 02/26/18 |
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An Age of Revolution If We But Know What To Do With It | 02/16/18 |
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The Widow’s Mite And the Rich Donald the Dumb | 02/09/18 |
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The Water Horse of Loch Ness And Our Water Horses of Life | 02/07/18 |
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The Art of Asking Questions… About Which You Know the Answers | 02/05/18 |
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Moh Moh, Tin Tin, and Me We Are the Incarnations of Bobby | 01/31/18 |
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I Failed For the Time Being | 01/26/18 |
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What I Learned In High School Applies To This Moment In Time | 01/24/18 |
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Lesson Learned About Dreaming I Learned from Bobby | 01/22/18 |
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We Are Family Versus Racism | 01/19/18 |
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Birthdays and Death-Days The Dilemma | 01/10/18 |
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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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Doing the Dance... Fathoming the Unfathomable | 12/11/17 |
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Confucius Said... But We Haven’t Listened | 12/04/17 |
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The Big Fib: "I'm, like, a really smart person." | 11/27/17 |
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The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me Ginger and Don Quixote | 11/10/17 |
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The Reason Behind... Everything | 11/08/17 |
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Live in the Moment... Plan for the Future | 10/20/17 |
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Free To Be Me— A Driven Dancer | 10/11/17 |
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What I Owe Ashley and Michael Wall Removal | 10/11/17 |
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Ginger and Santayana Remember the Past | 10/09/17 |
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Lawrence of Arabia One of My Mentors | 10/06/17 |
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Ti Ti A Reason for Being | 10/02/17 |
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Ginger and I Promises To Keep and Miles To Go Before We Sleep | 09/29/17 |
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Ginger AKA Longshanks | 09/27/17 |
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The Double-Axe A Symbol of My Identity | 09/15/17 |
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I’m On the Road Again But Why? | 09/08/17 |
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The Hollow Man Who Wears Long Ties | 09/04/17 |
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When Dreams Aren’t Realized What Should You Do? | 09/01/17 |
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Minnows or Manhood Or Scent of a Woman.... | 08/28/17 |
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Akhenaten... My Mentor | 08/25/17 |
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Essay with No Words But Look At My Eyes | 08/21/17 |
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“Better Angels of Our Nature” In America, Mexico, and Burma | 08/19/17 |
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Clarence Page and Donald the Dumb— The President of Trump University | 08/18/17 |
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Ti Ti and I A Most Haunting Relationship | 08/04/17 |
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Macbeth... Guilt Spills Itself for Fear of Being Spilt | 08/02/17 |
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The Pentagon Papers... Then and Now | 07/31/17 |
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Oppie The Scientist and the Philosopher | 07/17/17 |
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Just Drop Me Off And Ginger’s Toy Dog | 07/14/17 |
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“Close to Treason” It Is Close to Stupid but Not Treason. | 07/12/17 |
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Rage, Rage... Against the Pissing Pug | 07/10/17 |
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Henry II and Thomas Becket Then and Now | 07/07/17 |
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What Did I Learn... From Vinegar Joe | 07/05/17 |
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Impeachment of Trump And the Tower of Babel | 06/30/17 |
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Donald the Dumb’s Dilemma Falling from Great Heights | 06/21/17 |
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Teaching Donald the Dumb There Is No Happiness Where There Is No Wisdom | 06/16/17 |
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The Ides of June And Religious Ties | 06/14/17 |
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Learning, the Unquenchable Drive Travel and Learn | 06/07/17 |
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The Hauntings of Hachikō and Bobby… And the Haunting of My Gingers | 05/24/17 |
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Ginger’s Predecessors And My Domesticated Carnivore | 05/19/17 |
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Three Blind Mice… And Bloody Mary | 05/08/17 |
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Do Not Going Gently Into That Good Night I Will Rage | 05/05/17 |
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Brexit vs Scoxit The Death Blow to the British Empire | 05/01/17 |
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The Help Déjá Vu | 04/17/17 |
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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 Amazing Process Called Learning Thinking Outside the Box | 04/05/17 |
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Chick Magnet And the Hauntings | 03/31/17 |
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The Hauntings About Bobby and the Gingers | 03/27/17 |
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On Riding to Samara Then and Now.... | 03/10/17 |
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Invictus Thank You, Mrs. Davis | 03/06/17 |
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What Donald the Dumb is Missing in Life? Eppie | 03/01/17 |
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Robert the Bruce I'll Drink to Him! | 02/17/17 |
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Thus Spoke Dr. Marchand... And Ginger | 02/15/17 |
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Ginger, Socks, and Poe Finding Lenore.... | 02/13/17 |
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The Value of Travel: Education | 01/13/17 |
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A Lesson of Life Learned from a Cockroach | 01/04/17 |
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The Great Value of the Philosophers' Stone... To Me | 12/21/16 |
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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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Only Those Who Dare to Fail... Can Achieve | 12/05/16 |
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Deplorable... Defining the Definition | 11/25/16 |
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Roll Me Up I Am Free to be Me at 73 | 11/18/16 |
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Tom Brokaw... Another Dancer | 11/16/16 |
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On the Road Again... Like a Gypsy | 11/07/16 |
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Dostoyevsky Danced with Death As a Result, Became a Great Writer. | 11/02/16 |
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Teach Your Children... To Dream | 10/28/16 |
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Resurrecting Dashed Dreams By Continuing to Dream | 10/17/16 |
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Himmler and His Quest for the Holy Grail Remember the Past | 10/05/16 |
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Dealing with Impossible Dreams Realistically... Or Getting All My Ducks Lined Up | 09/26/16 |
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The Fighting Téméraire Explained My Nostalgia to Me | 09/21/16 |
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Why Do I Care? More to the Point, Why Doesn't Everyone Care? | 09/16/16 |
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Confucius Say, "Petty Man Understands Profit" | 09/14/16 |
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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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We Must Address Conservativism... For Two Essential Reasons | 08/05/16 |
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The Value of Giving Gifts... To Young Children | 08/01/16 |
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Bobby Kennedy Still Reaches Out to Us. | 07/29/16 |
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The Queen's Haunting... Bohemian Rhapsody | 07/27/16 |
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We Shall Overcome A Belief Amid Darkness | 07/18/16 |
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My Sherpa Statue Spoke A Valuable Time Spent Listening | 06/17/16 |
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The 5-Things Test Seeing Yourself as Others See You | 06/15/16 |
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The Angel Spoke... And I Listened. | 06/10/16 |
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The Value of My Hauntings.... It Forces the Issues | 06/03/16 |
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Mr. Turner The Dualism of Feelings | 05/06/16 |
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The Third Dance Apparently Was a Misstep | 04/27/16 |
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How to be Smarter Than We Think We Are | 04/18/16 |
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I am Don Quixote But I Am Not from La Mancha | 04/15/16 |
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Worthless Windmills Time Will Tell Their Worth | 04/01/16 |
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On Seeing the Light Chuck, Paul, and Me | 03/04/16 |
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Two Roads in the Wood Choose Wisely | 02/26/16 |
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Grave or No Grave That is the Question | 02/22/16 |
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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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Dreams will come to you.... If You Are True to Your Quest | 01/22/16 |
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"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun." Randy Pausch is Correct | 01/15/16 |
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The Little Match Girl And The Golden Statue | 01/11/16 |
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The Very Strange Year of 2008 A Year to Remember | 01/08/16 |
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The Gift of an Angel It is More About My Feelings | 01/06/16 |
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I Know Who I Am... And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me | 12/04/15 |
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Take Your Passion and Make It Happen Flashdance Follow-up | 11/27/15 |
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What a Feeling And It Is a Great Feeling | 11/20/15 |
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Want to See What I'm Wearing for Halloween? A Profound Question | 11/16/15 |
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Dr. Marchand Knows Medicine Well... And He Knows Life Well Also | 11/2/15 |
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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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The Mahogany Bench A Place for Dreaming.... | 10/07/15 |
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A Great Dancer with Death A Sobering Experience | 09/21/15 |
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Putting the Pieces Together The Joy of Coming of Age | 09/18/15 |
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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 Value of Standing on Desks Allows One to See the World Clearly | 08/17/15 |
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Discovery of Terracotta Warriors... And Nessie | 08/14/15 |
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A Man with a Mission... Sinking a German U-boat | 08/12/15 |
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Riders on the Streetcar Named Desire: Elizabeth and Rosa | 08/03/15 |
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Darwin, van Gogh, and Lindbergh's Gifts For Owen on His Third Birthday | 07/20/15 |
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What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago, Which I Finally Fully Understand | 07/10/15 |
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Career Opportunity... Being a Gladiator | 06/19/15 |
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Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens How to Avoid the Ghosts | 05/08/15 |
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How Do We Learn? The Lessons in Learning | 04/13/15 |
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Obama's Golden Opportunity On Leaving a Legacy | 02/13/15 |
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Ozone to Ferguson A Journey That Never Seems To End | 01/05/15 |
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It Was the Best of Times It Was the Worst of Times.... | 01/01/15 |
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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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What Einstein Taught Me About Riding a Bike ...Keep Moving | 12/22/14 |
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Serendipity... Finding Without Looking | 12/12/14 |
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A Fool with a Plan... Is Better Than a Genius with No Plan. | 11/21/14 |
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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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On Seeing the Light...part II And I Thought that I Had Seen the Light | 10/10/14 |
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My Dots in Life Get Connected With the Singing of Pete Seeger | 10/06/14 |
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Pushing Oneself... What I Learned from T. S. Eliot | 09/14/14 |
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Darkest Before Dawn A Logical Disconnect that Is True | 08/15/14 |
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Come Alive... Before You Die. | 07/24/14 |
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Orwell and Scottish Independence Or Smell the Heather and Vote for Independence | 07/18/14 |
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Burma-Shave... And Seeing the Light | 07/07/14 |
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The Chilling Reality of Global Warming Where Does Lying Get Politicians and the Rest of Us? | 06/28/14 |
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Moravec Evolution or the 21st Century Scopes Trial | 06/21/14 |
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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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Jack and Owen Novice 21st Century Johnny Appleseeds | 06/01/14 |
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Right-Brain Pain and Gain... Getting Organized After Seeing the Light | 05/21/14 |
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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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Orwell and Kipling and the Battle of Burma Or Why I Care | 05/12/14 |
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Advantages of Growing Old ...You Will Not Be Here in the 22nd Century | 05/05/14 |
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"Hang a Lantern on Your Problems..." So All Can See. | 04/27/14 |
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One of the Advantages of Being Right-Brain: Finding Another Prison. | 04/24/14 |
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Good Trip / Bad Trip ...the Great Benefits of Bad Trips | 04/21/14 |
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Faulkner's Lesson of Life... Even When the Last Ding-dong of Doom has Clanged. | 04/17/14 |
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On Seeing the Light... More Clearly | 03/28/14 |
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The Value of Travel... Or Learning About Myanmar. | 03/07/14 |
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The Two Ladies: Parallels between the Ukraine and Myanmar | 03/01/14 |
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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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I Have Seen the Light... Thanks to Myanmar and Dr. Marchand | 01/28/14 |