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.
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I See More Clearly...
Thanks to Carl Sagan.
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03/24/14
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Who is the Headless Horseman?
But First, the Background
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11/01/24 |
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A Saint and a Sinner
Michelle Obama and Lev Parnas
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10/30/24 |
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Happy Birthday Ginger
She Turned Eight Today
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10/28/24 |
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What I Admire about Kamala
And How She Will Change America
|
10/25/24 |
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Robert Reich Paying Homage...
To a Special American
|
10/23/24 |
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Linking Up with My Family
During Thadingyut
|
10/21/24 |
|
A Primer for Leaders
Stupid is as Stupid Does
|
10/18/24 |
|
Trump is Correct...Partially
He Just Missed Who the Enemy Was
|
10/16/24 |
|
What’s With the Water?
Water, Water, Everywhere
|
10/14/24 |
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Life Will Improve
If You Use More than One Silo
|
10/11/24 |
|
Forrest Trump
The Remake of Forrest Gump
|
10/09/24 |
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Professor Keating and I
We Both Took Mrs. Davis’s English Class
|
10/07/24 |
|
Another Set of Photos for Ti Ti
Remain Driven in Life
|
10/04/24 |
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Trump Psychoanalyzes Harris
But He Reveals His Psych Issues in the Process
|
10/02/24 |
|
Another Eureka Moment
Thank You, Nancy
|
09/30/24 |
|
“I Want To Be Your Protector”
Said the Neanderthal
|
09/27/24 |
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Following in the Footsteps of Lt. Zogg
It’s All About Being Determined
|
09/25/24 |
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The Virgin King
Enjoying Life in Another World
|
09/20/24 |
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Another Parallel
With James Earl Jones and Me
|
09/18/24 |
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A Funny Thing Happened To Me
As I Age, Not So Gracefully
|
09/16/24 |
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Discovering a Mentor
In a Field of Dreams
|
09/13/24 |
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Another Set of Photos
For Ti Ti from PaPa Al
|
09/09/24 |
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Creating Fortress America
Thoughts of Vulgar Vance
|
09/06/24 |
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Becoming a Monkey King
It's More Than Mere Monkey Business
|
09/04/24 |
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The Weird Duo
Donald the Dumb and Vulgar Vance
|
09/02/24 |
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We Are All Teachers
Be Careful What You Teach
|
08/28/24 |
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Become a Bo Bo Gyi
It's About Giving to Get.
|
08/26/24 |
|
The Snowman vs Allen
How To Change the World
|
08/23/24 |
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Ginger Has Done the Dance
We Are Bonded as Dancers
|
08/21/24 |
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Creating Elysium
In This World
|
08/19/24 |
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Destiny or Fate
It is Another Either/Or Issue
|
08/16/24 |
|
What’s with Nancy Nurenberg?
It’s All About Feeling Dumb and Poor
|
08/14/24 |
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Replying to Ti Ti’s Request
For a Photo of PaPa Al
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08/09/24 |
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Get With It
Roar Like a Lion
|
08/07/24 |
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You Know that You Are Getting Old
When You Don’t Know All the New Words and Slogans
|
08/05/24 |
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Trump as Savior
Let Me Hear a Halleluiah
|
08/02/24 |
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Lessons Learned in Former British Colonies
Like America, South Africa, and Myanmar
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07/31/24 |
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The Third Old Man
Or Three Coins in the Fountain of Life
|
07/29/24 |
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A Story of Two Old Men
And How They Will Be Remembered
|
07/26/24 |
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The Washington Role Model
The Cherry Tree and Flowering Crabapple Tree
|
07/24/24 |
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Thanking Our Grandmothers
And Following in Their Footsteps
|
07/17/24 |
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Ukraine and Myanmar
An Unfortunate Parallel
|
07/15/24 |
|
A Parable about Geese
Waddle or Fly
|
07/10/24 |
|
It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
With the Father and Son
|
07/05/24 |
|
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary
What Would Kierkegaard Do?
|
07/03/24 |
|
How to Become Rich
Without Any Much Money
|
07/01/24 |
|
How Will We Be Remembered
Another Either / Or Essay
|
06/28/24 |
|
Ethnic Cleansing
Then and Now
|
06/26/24 |
|
Christian Nationalism
Who are These Christians?
|
06/24/24 |
|
We Need to Get Honest
Much Sooner Than Later
|
06/19/24 |
|
A Funny Thing Happened
At My Doctor’s Office
|
06/17/24 |
|
The Sickness Is Spreading
Among Many Americans
|
06/14/24 |
|
Had We All Read Longfellow
America Would Be a Better Place
|
06/12/24 |
|
I’m Leading Death Again
On My Dancefloor of Life
|
06/10/24 |
|
Let Me Get This Straight
Trump Is An Innocent Man
|
06/07/24 |
|
Learning from Kipling
“You’re a Better Man than I Am, Gunga Din!”
|
06/05/24 |
|
A Poem for Ti Ti
Who is Now Twenty
|
06/02/24 |
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What’s It All About, Alfie
According to Longfellow
|
05/31/24 |
|
We Still Aren’t Independent of England
Many Still Have the Same Mindset
|
05/29/24 |
|
Repeating the Past
Make Sure You Understand the Past
|
05/24/24 |
|
What a Difference a Generation Makes
Greatness Isn’t Always Genetic
|
05/22/24 |
|
My Grandmother’s Words
Haunt and Inspire Me
|
05/20/24 |
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Every Day is Like Survival
You're My Lover Not My Rival
|
05/13/24 |
|
A Very Stable Genius
Is Loose and Running Around
|
05/06/24 |
|
The Flying Dutchman
Then and Now
|
05/03/24 |
|
Trump’s Roosting Chickens
Are Coming Home to Roost
|
05/01/24 |
|
Rudy, Be Careful with Your Rants
You Should Have Watched Men in Black
|
04/29/24 |
|
Still I Rise
Despite Racism
|
04/26/24 |
|
Field of Dreams
A Haunting Return
|
04/24/24 |
|
Lincoln and His Better Angels
Or Trump and His Worst Demons
|
04/22/24 |
|
Immortal Beloved
Beethoven’s, Shakespeare’s, and Mine
|
04/19/24 |
|
Repeating Bad History
Creates Newer Bad History
|
04/10/24 |
|
What I Discovered
When I Wasn’t Looking
|
04/08/24 |
|
Bush’s Bus Ride
Leadership or Roadkills
|
04/05/24 |
|
Ginger Trains Her Owner
And I’m Obedient
|
04/03/24 |
|
April Fool’s Day
For the Donald
|
04/01/24 |
|
A Whiter Shade of Pale
What’s It All About, Alfie?
|
03/29/24 |
|
“We Are Made of Star-Stuff,”
But We Don’t Realize It.
|
03/27/24 |
|
The Real Mona Lisa
Or the Fake Ones
|
03/25/24 |
|
Standing on the Hill
Our Human Destiny
|
03/20/24 |
|
Trump Has Some Issues with Taylor Swift
Beyond His Legal Woes and Coming Up with a Half Billion Dollars
|
03/11/24 |
|
I Have Issues with Justice Thomas
The Holier Than Thou Mindset
|
03/08/24 |
|
It’s Better to Burn Out
Than to Fade Away
|
03/06/24 |
|
Ginger’s New Fashion Statement
Keeping Her Happy and Healthy
|
03/04/24 |
|
Music and Me
The Cost of Love Then and Now
|
03/01/24 |
|
And a Sickness Too Took Root
Donald the Dumb Has Rooted
|
02/28/24 |
|
Odysseus’ Long, Long Journey
Both Odysseus and Odie
|
02/26/24 |
|
Another Bedtime Story for Trump
About Aaron and the Donald
|
02/21/24 |
|
Bo Bo Gyi
And His Advice to His Granddaughter
|
02/19/24 |
|
Kicking the Can Down the Road, Again
50th Mass Shootings in America This Year
|
02/16/24 |
|
St. Valentine’s Day
The Real St. Valentine’s Day
|
02/14/24 |
|
If I Were in Charge of Education
This is What I Would Mandate
|
02/12/24 |
|
The Box or Jar of Pandora
Another Parable
|
02/07/24 |
|
The Two Faces of Prometheus
Which Face Will You Pick?
|
02/05/24 |
|
Trump Wasn’t the First Trump
There Have Been Others
|
02/02/24 |
|
The Past is a Precursor
To the Future
|
01/31/24 |
|
The Achilles’ Heel
Of the Republicans
|
01/29/24 |
|
My Hill of Beans Paradox
Created by the James Webb Space Telescope
|
01/26/24 |
|
My Birthday
And the Age of Aquarius
|
01/24/24 |
|
Snow and Fatty
Are Following in Ti Ti’s Footsteps
|
01/19/24 |
|
Donald the Dumb Believes
Some Really Dumb Things
|
01/15/24 |
|
Artificial Intelligence
Past, Present, and Future
|
01/10/24 |
|
Infallibility of Trump
And the Divine Right of Kings
|
01/08/24 |
|
Starting a New Year
With a New Battery and Insight
|
01/01/24 |
|
What’s It All About...
The Paradox of Life
|
12/29/23 |
|
Unexpected Events
Can Create Opportunities for Greatness
|
12/25/23 |
|
Do You Hear the People Sing...
Who Will Not Be Slaves Again!
|
12/22/23 |
|
Why Write?
Answers from Vonnegut and Faulkner
|
12/20/23 |
|
Solar Flares and CMEs
Impending Impact
|
12/18/23 |
|
PaPa Al’s Reply
To Ti Ti’s Posting, I Love Education
|
12/15/23 |
|
The Paradox of Learning
It Is an Either/Or Knowledge Base
|
12/13/23 |
|
My Yin Yang World
Dreams vs. Reality
|
12/08/23 |
|
I Have a Solution
For the Stupid TV Medicare Announcements
|
12/06/23 |
|
The Orange Jesus...
Is from a Planet in the Andromeda Galaxy
|
12/04/23 |
|
Ginger’s Gift to Dr. Derrè
Ginger Stated, “Dr. Derrè’s My Vet”
|
12/01/23 |
|
What Would T.E. Lawrence Do
In Gaza and Israel?
|
11/29/23 |
|
Mary Had Little Lamb
And PaPa Al Has a Big Irish Setter
|
11/27/23 |
|
The Evolution of Thanksgiving
A Long and Winding Road
|
11/24/23 |
|
A Future Thanksgiving
Far, Far Away
|
11/22/23 |
|
Reaching Out to Others for Help
It Is Giving that We Get
|
11/20/23 |
|
Let Me Get This Straight
“If you go after me, I’m coming after you.”
|
11/13/23 |
|
On the Road Again
Ginger, the Pooh Dog, and Me
|
11/10/23 |
|
If I Were Q
I’d Tell the Whole Story of the Téméraire
|
11/08/23 |
|
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
A Lesson Taught by Dylan Thomas
|
11/06/23 |
|
The Reason for Being
An Either/Or Situation
|
11/03/23 |
|
The Ripple Effect
An Either/Or Issue
|
11/01/23 |
|
Ginger’s 7th Birthday
What’s Life All About, Alfie?
|
10/30/23 |
|
Sagan’s Golden Records
On the Horns of a Dilemma
|
10/27/23 |
|
Flipper...
Let the Show Begin
|
10/23/23 |
|
Breath of Fresh Air
From My Web Administrator
|
10/20/23 |
|
Me and My Echocardiogram
Beyond a Diagnosis
|
10/18/23 |
|
Lawrence of Arabia...
A Mentor of Mine
|
10/11/23 |
|
Let’s Do the Math
It is an Either/Or Choice
|
10/09/23 |
|
Kevin Needs Therapy
And a Newer Gaming Video
|
10/06/23 |
|
Ginger’s Check-Up
Again, at Purdue Veterinary Hospital
|
10/04/23 |
|
Ti Ti, the Artist
The Georgia O’Keeffe of Myanmar
|
10/02/23 |
|
Casablanca...
Then and Now
|
09/29/23 |
|
The Evolution of Humans
To the Present Day
|
09/27/23 |
|
Ancient Greeks and the Fear Factor
The Truth about the Fear Factor
|
09/25/23 |
|
My Second Shot
Or the First Insurrection
|
09/22/23 |
|
My World of Xanadu
Another Personal Parallel Essay
|
09/20/23 |
|
Ti Ti’s Surprising Email
To Her Grandfather
|
09/18/23 |
|
Tyson’s Two Thoughts
Regarding AI and a Ticking Clock
|
09/15/23 |
|
Creating My Alive Life
Gone Will Be the Days of Being Dead Tired
|
09/11/23 |
|
The Importance of Happenstance
For Heavenly Clauses
|
09/08/23 |
|
Jumping Hoops for a Prescription
Raises Ethical Issues at Various Levels
|
09/04/23 |
|
Another Dance for Ginger
Learn and Live in the Moment
|
09/01/23 |
|
Before Burning Books...
We Need to Read Them
|
08/30/23 |
|
The Source of Trump’s Mug Shot
It’s Naissance was Wagner
|
08/28/23 |
|
Michelle
The Sculptor and Writer
|
08/23/23 |
|
Holding Hands with Neal Katyal
What My Teacher Taught Me
|
08/21/23 |
|
Hollow Men
Two Troubled Souls
|
08/18/23 |
|
Thomas and Trump
The Teacher and Student
|
08/16/23 |
|
Trump Won’t Like Judge Chutkan
It Isn’t Wise for Trump To Threaten Her.
|
08/11/23 |
|
Haunting Photos
Then and Now
|
08/09/23 |
|
Grasp This Truism
From St. Francis and Buddha
|
08/07/23 |
|
Oppie and Me
The Similarities are Striking
|
07/24/23 |
|
The Synchronicity of My Mentors
Bobby and Don Quixote
|
07/19/23 |
|
The Clown Car Drivers
Are Driving Scared
|
06/30/23 |
|
Stonhenge and Manhattanhenge
What's it all about, Alfie?
|
06/28/23 |
|
The Tree in the Silo
A Metaphor of Me
|
06/23/23 |
|
Doublethink
What Trump Learned from Animal Farm and 1984
|
06/07/23 |
|
Pick Mentors Carefully
The Lady and Bobby
|
06/02/23 |
|
Be a Sherpa
Whether or Not You are a Beekeeper or Nepalese
|
05/31/23 |
|
A Suggestion of a Mentor
A Sequel to Picking a Mentor Article
|
04/07/23 |
|
Picking Mentors
Choose Wisely
|
04/05/23 |
|
What’s It All About Ginger?
The Haunting Question
|
04/03/23 |
|
Run That Past Me Again.
It Doesn’t Make Sense.
|
03/31/23 |
|
Witch Hunts
Question: Who Is the Witch?
|
03/29/23 |
|
Tucker’s Talk
Is Double-Talk
|
03/24/23 |
|
Rewriting the Past
By Editing or Deleting It
|
03/22/23 |
|
Music Explains Me
Music Drives Me
|
03/03/23 |
|
Happy Birthday Moh Moh
And Many More
|
02/27/23 |
|
Jabbering Parrots
What We Can Learn from Churchill and Buffett
|
02/22/23 |
|
Inherit the Wind
And You Will Be Gone with the Wind
|
02/20/23 |
|
Threading the Needle
To Address Racism
|
02/17/23 |
|
TV Commercials
Five Pros and One Con
|
02/15/23 |
|
Learning from Lao Tzu
To Live Life Daringly
|
02/13/23 |
|
Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi
Addressing Our Nation’s Problems
|
02/06/23 |
|
Education is a Double-Edged Sword
How To Address Learning
|
02/01/23 |
|
Aggressive Chimpanzees
Outside of Africa
|
01/30/23 |
|
The Importance of Footprints
But the Question is When
|
01/25/23 |
|
The Evolution of Aldie
According to a 21st Century Darwinian Theory
|
01/23/23 |
|
What’s It All About Alfie?
From an Eighty-Year Old Alfie
|
01/20/23 |
|
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 |
|
Grasping Reality
I Can’t Explain It
|
01/09/23 |
|
The Benefit of Pain
Take Advantage of It
|
01/02/23 |
|
It’s All About We
An Important Lesson of Life
|
12/26/22 |
|
Repeating the Past
It’s Just Fake News
|
12/14/22 |
|
Problems are Assets
Seize the Problems
|
12/09/22 |
|
The Reckoning Day
Of the Invincibles
|
12/07/22 |
|
A Soccer and Hockey Game
What’s the Take Away?
|
12/05/22 |
|
My Way
Morphing to My Mentoring
|
12/02/22 |
|
A Picture is Worth a Billion Words
Or Pick Your Mentors Wisely
|
11/30/22 |
|
My Twilight Hauntings...
About Immortality
|
11/25/22 |
|
What World Are We Living In?
The Denier’s World
|
11/23/22 |
|
Finger Pointing
It’s Their Fault....
|
11/16/22 |
|
Camelot Revisited
By Looking Again at the Past
|
11/07/22 |
|
A Message from Missoula
And the Dangling Dog
|
11/04/22 |
|
Ginger is Now Six
As We Do the Dance
|
10/28/22 |
|
Transparency Revisited
While Down on the Farm
|
10/21/22 |
|
Growing Up Without Transparency
And Finally Discovering It
|
10/14/22 |
|
Facing Storms of Life
Another Either/Or Situation
|
10/07/22 |
|
Trying Times
Testing Souls
|
09/23/22 |
|
Picking Mentors
It Will Change Your Life
|
09/09/22 |
|
Seeing Things More Clearly
On My Yellow Brick Road
|
08/22/22 |
|
Hoosier’s Neighbor?
The Ultimate Question
|
08/17/22 |
|
Trilogy of Diseases
How Are You Going to Address the Trilogy?
|
08/12/22 |
|
An Important Teaching Moment
Joe and I Are Twins
|
08/10/22 |
|
A Funny Thing Happened to Me in Surgery
I Talked About What Rattles Me
|
08/3/22 |
|
A Lesson About Life…
Don’t Fear Death…
|
07/24/22 |
|
Happy Birthday Snow
You Are 13
|
07/22/22 |
|
My Place in the Universe
I Don’t Want to be Lost in Space
|
07/15/22 |
|
Another Mantra of Mine
Be a Storyteller
|
07/8/22 |
|
Alan Turing
Thinking Outside the Box
|
07/6/22 |
|
Doing the Dance on Steroids
And Promises to Keep
|
06/29/22 |
|
Juneteenth
A Day to Remember
|
06/20/22 |
|
Miah Is the 21st Century Eppie
A Hand Is Put Into Theirs….
|
06/17/22 |
|
There is a Teapot in Orbit Around the Sun…
It Was Mentioned in Ancient Texts
|
06/15/22 |
|
The Trinity of Evil
Monkeys See as Monkeys Do
|
06/10/22 |
|
The Battle of the Alamo…
Past, Present, and Future
|
05/11/22 |
|
I Love Teaching…
Here in Myanmar or Anywhere
|
05/09/22 |
|
Grasping Reality
While My Clock Is Ticking
|
04/29/22 |
|
A Backed-Up Sewer
Created a Parable
|
04/27/22 |
|
Diversity Visas
What’s That All About, Alfie?
|
04/24/22 |
|
Acclimating to the New World
In Mt. Lebanon, Taunggyi, and Crown Point
|
04/20/22 |
|
Heaven and Hell
What’s It All About, Alfie
|
04/08/22 |
|
I Have Miles to Go
Before I Sleep
|
04/04/22 |
|
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 |
|
Ginger and I
What’s It All About and Why?
|
03/21/22 |
|
Ti Ti, the Teacher
Of Her Classmates and Me
|
03/16/22 |
|
Two Views of the Ides of March
One for Caesar and One for My Family
|
03/14/22 |
|
The Helter-Skelter Mindset1
Locally and Globally
|
03/09/22 |
|
My Great-Granddaughter
A Younger Version of My Granddaughters
|
03/07/22 |
|
Two Military Leaders
Parker and Lee
|
03/04/22 |
|
If Everything Around You Seems Dark…
Look Again. You May Be the Light.
|
02/26/22 |
|
Putin’s Legacy
Gilgamesh’s Lesson
|
02/23/22 |
|
History Is Repetitious
Then and Now
|
02/21/22 |
|
My Personality Quirks…
I Have Several
|
02/16/22 |
|
My Latest Himalayan Salt Lamp
A Parable for Today
|
02/14/22 |
|
The Tale of My Foot
Years Ago and Today
|
02/11/22 |
|
Parallels Between Myanmar and America
Even Though They Are On the Other Side of the World
|
02/04/22 |
|
My Dream of Diversity
In the Footsteps of Bobby
|
02/02/22 |
|
Diversity Is the Answer
But What Is the Question?
|
01/31/22 |
|
When I Become a Billionaire…
A Jaguar SUV Will Be in My Garage
|
01/26/22 |
|
Two Countries
Living in One World
|
01/24/22 |
|
A Sequel to My Dreamland Journey…
To the Brighter Side of Life
|
01/21/22 |
|
My Dreamland
During My Operation
|
01/19/22 |
|
Coming to America
A Dream of Many
|
01/17/22 |
|
“Better To Reign in Hell…
Than Serve in heaven.”
|
01/12/22 |
|
A Cancer, Too, Took Root
But the Backstory Is More Important
|
01/10/22 |
|
Galileo Found Four Moons
But the Backstory Is More Important
|
01/07/22 |
|
Beware of the Mongolian Death Worm
In Both Mongolia and America
|
01/05/22 |
|
A Reason for Being…
The Most Important Reason for My Being
|
12/31/21 |
|
Christmas:
Past, Present, and Future
|
12/24/21 |
|
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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My Extended Family
You Can See Her Painting.
|
11/15/21 |
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A New Ripple
And a Purposeful Life
|
10/27/21 |
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The Duality of Changing
Times Change, and We Change
|
10/22/21 |
|
Having a Purposeful Life
Another Sequel About Dreaming
|
10/20/21 |
|
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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My Takeaway
From the Great Chicago Fire
|
10/08/21 |
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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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Revisiting Gilgamesh
A Teaching Moment
|
09/17/21 |
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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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Learning from Dancing Starlings…
A Great Learning Moment for Us
|
08/09/21 |
|
It Is Time To Write Poetry
Another Teaching Event
|
08/06/21 |
|
Sir Gawain, the Knight
Doing What a Knight Does
|
08/01/21 |
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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 |
|
We Are Cave Men
But What Is Our Purpose in Life?
|
07/23/21 |
|
A Ngal Lay
My Great-Granddaughter
|
07/14/21 |
|
Poets Both Past and Present
Amanda Gorman and Sarah Kay
|
07/09/21 |
|
Resurrection
I’m Alive Along with My Computer, and Ginger
|
07/07/21 |
|
More Apologies Expressed
To My Physicians
|
06/21/21 |
|
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 |
|
Set Set Yo
And a Little Child
|
06/04/21 |
|
Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen
Happy Birthday
|
06/02/21 |
|
Memorial Day 2021
It Is in Giving that We Get
|
05/31/21 |
|
One Year Hence
Reincarnation of Gawain and the Fox
|
05/28/21 |
|
Learn and Become a Storyteller
All You Need To Do Is To Travel |
05/10/21 |
|
The History of Myanmar…
Is Being Written Now |
05/07/21 |
|
Trinity of Guts
Or Cult of Chickens |
05/05/21 |
|
Three Take-Aways
From Denzel Washington’s Commencement Address |
05/03/21 |
|
The Haunting Question
Which Sir Launfal Are You? |
04/30/21 |
|
He Is My Brother
On This Pale Blue Dot |
04/28/21 |
|
Problems Offer a Choice
Either a Cul-de-sac or a Challenge |
04/23/21 |
|
A Funny Thing Happened While on Zoom
My Fourth La Danse Macabre |
04/19/21 |
|
Learning from Collecting
Written by a Collector of Treasures |
04/16/21 |
|
My Quest to Find Meaning Life
My Search for My Holy Grail |
04/07/21 |
|
Getting on the Same PageIn My Class and Our World |
03/29/21 |
|
My Love of Teaching This Is An Example |
03/26/21 |
|
What’s It All About Aldie My Haunting Question |
03/19/21 |
|
A Tale of Two Countries And a Present-Day Theme and Variation of Life |
03/03/21 |
|
The Pandas and My PoohAnd Other Followers of Gilgamesh |
02/03/21 |
|
Who Is That Lady in Yellow?A 21st Century Eppie |
02/01/21 |
|
Learning Is Three-Dimensional… But It Is Discovered On the Road |
01/29/21 |
|
Stopping in the WoodsWhile Dreaming Dreams |
01/27/21 |
|
Finding ImmortalityGilgamesh and Ti Ti |
01/22/21 |
|
Purposeful LivesOn Steroids |
01/13/21 |
|
A Christmas Carol in 2020…It Is in Giving that We Get |
12/25/20 |
|
Where Is a Martin Niemöller…When We Need an Honest Person? |
12/23/20 |
|
It Was Four Years AgoAnd What a Difference Four Years Makes |
11/02/20 |
|
The Importance of the Sound of Music…According to Nietzsche and Me |
10/26/20 |
|
The Giving and GettingBoth Parties Benefit |
10/21/20 |
|
Hear Ye, Hear Ye…Ti Ti Is Starting College Today! |
10/16/20 |
|
Damned If He Does, and Damned If He Doesn’t. On Being on the Horns of a Dilemma |
10/12/20 |
|
The Devil Made Me Do It. A Presidential Duet |
10/09/20 |
|
Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity |
10/07/20 |
|
My Two Worlds…Affect My Life |
10/05/20 |
|
This is Success in the MakingYou Heard It First from PaPa Al |
09/30/20 |
|
This Is an AddendumTi Ti, the Bridge Builder |
09/25/20 |
|
Coming Home to RoostKierkegaard, Mt. Lebanon, Dancing, and My Family |
09/04/20 |
|
There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming |
08/07/20 |
|
A Teaching MomentWhile Walking Ginger |
07/31/20 |
|
Egoism vs AltruismThere is a Better Way |
07/27/20 |
|
Ti TiMy Granddaughter and Poet Laurate |
07/24/20 |
|
"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.” |
07/20/20 |
|
A Tribute to SnowMy Granddaughter in Myanmar |
07/08/20 |
|
A Tribute to Ti Ti The Young Lady |
07/06/20 |
|
Another of Santayana’s Teaching Moment Maybe We Will Learn This
Time |
06/24/20 |
|
An Open-Letter to the WorldTimes They Are a-Changin' |
06/05/20 |
|
Living in the New NormalOur New World Order |
05/29/20 |
|
It Is All About FamilyAnd Who Makes Up Our Family |
05/20/20 |
|
Our Reason for BeingDiscover It |
05/18/20 |
|
Ti Ti…The Amazing Young Lady |
04/29/20 |
|
Why I Love Inle LakeTwo Reasons |
04/22/20 |
|
The Week That WasDance on with Determination |
04/20/20 |
|
Plague DoctorThen and Now |
04/06/20 |
|
Regarding Dancing with CoronavirusCampbell’s Five Commandments
|
03/25/20 |
|
I Don’t Like FailingModus Operandi |
03/13/20 |
|
Think Before You ActThen Dare Greatly |
03/09/20 |
|
“Let’s Get Going.”An Important Lesson of Life (FLASH: The lost video
sound is back) |
03/02/20 |
|
Mr. ChipsAn Updated Version |
02/26/20 |
|
Happy Birthday Fatty…An Incarnation of Eppie |
02/12/20 |
|
Than Tun OoArtist and Friend |
02/10/20 |
|
The Teak BridgePart 2 of a 4 Parts Series |
01/29/20 |
|
Theseus and Me
A Ball of String or Modafinil
|
10/02/19
|
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Autotelic
Vincent, Me, and Modafinil
|
09/27/19
|
|
Starry, Starry Night….
What Do You See?
|
08/12/19
|
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My Next Adventure:
The Die is Cast
|
08/02/19
|
|
My Family Escaped
From the Jurassic Park in Myanmar
|
06/21/19
|
|
Family
Who Is Your Family?
|
06/17/19
|
|
“Go Fly a Kite!”
Franklin Did
|
06/10/19
|
|
Prometheus, Galileo, and Nietzsche
Verses Zeus, God, and Nihilism
|
05/22/19
|
|
Nietzsche Apparently Read Thoreau
But I Have Read Much of Both
|
05/17/19
|
|
Purpose of Our Being
What’s It All About, Alfie
|
05/10/19
|
|
Carl Sagan
The World Learned Much from Him
|
05/06/19
|
|
Pathétique
A Way to Live Life
|
05/03/19
|
|
Wanderlust
Travel with No Regret
|
05/01/19
|
|
Ti Ti and Oscar Wilde’s Advice
No Excuses and No Regrets
|
04/19/19
|
|
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern
Contacting Clarence Page
|
04/12/19
|
|
Hanging My Problem on My Lantern
Contacting Rod Stewart
|
04/10/19
|
|
Scared!
Seen as a Teaching Moment
|
04/08/19
|
|
It Is A Bridge Too Far
Only If You Are a Coward
|
04/03/19
|
|
Coffin Bridge…
Build What You Need
|
04/01/19
|
|
Vocation of An Old Man…
Being a Bridge Builder
|
03/29/19
|
|
I Will Rage, Rage…
On Behalf of 1250 Students and One Celestial Comet
|
03/25/19
|
|
The Purpose of the Universe
Or My Window on the World
|
03/20/19
|
|
Ti Ti…
A Remarkable Young Lady
|
03/18/19
|
|
Dealing with the Reaper
By Coming Alive and Living
|
03/13/19
|
|
One Moment in Time
Carpe Diem
|
03/04/19
|
|
Inferiority Complex
Womb Envy vs. Penis Envy
|
02/25/19
|
|
Tintern Abbey
Viewed by Wordsworth and Turner
|
02/18/19
|
|
My Fistful of Meā Culpā…
To Our President
|
02/15/19
|
|
I Made a Mistake…
Imagine That
|
02/13/19
|
|
This Essay Is About Morphing
Pelosi, Donald the Dumb, Pausch, Gandhi, and Me
|
02/11/19
|
|
Something to Dream About
While Waiting for the IRS’s Approval
|
02/08/19
|
|
Light at the End of the Tunnel
However, the Tunnel is an Illusion
|
02/06/19
|
|
The Value of Pain
Can Produce Ultimate Bliss
|
02/04/19
|
|
A Very Brief History of Sexism in Science
It All Started with a Blinking Neutron Star
|
02/01/19
|
|
This Essay Addresses Alfie
What’s It All About?
|
01/28/19
|
|
Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice
To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It.
|
01/11/19
|
|
A New Year’s Eve
With a New Resolution for the Coming Year
|
12/31/18
|
|
It’s All About Family
I Agree with John Lewis |
12/17/18
|
|
Way Back Home…
In America and Myanmar
|
11/28/18
|
|
Building a Log Cabin
You Are Really Smart; I’ll Tell My Brother |
11/12/18
|
|
Serendipitous Moments in My Life
And They Are Haunting Me |
10/31/18
|
|
Donald the Dumb
Should Have Taken Art History
|
10/26/18
|
|
Keep Calm
And Things Seem to Work Out
|
10/24/18
|
|
Bette Davis Eyes…
But They Are in Myanmar
|
10/19/18
|
|
Rhythm of My Heart
Here and Abroad
|
10/03/18
|
|
Being a Young Turk…
During the 20th Century |
09/26/18
|
|
A Noble Person…
Meets Another Noble Person
|
09/17/18
|
|
McCain’s Life and Death
The Life and Times of a Great American
|
09/10/18
|
|
Deep State
Bob Woodward and Me
|
08/15/18
|
|
Be a Dreamer....
And Never Quit Dreaming.
|
08/10/18
|
|
Snow, the Virtuoso
Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev
|
08/06/18
|
|
Why Papa?
Answering the Why Questions
|
07/27/18
|
|
The Ripple Effect…
“…Can Sweep Down the Mightiest Walls.”
|
07/23/18
|
|
Ti Ti’s Birthday Present
On Her 14th Birthday
|
07/16/18
|
|
The Weaker Sex
Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex
|
07/11/18
|
|
If I Fail…
I Will While Daring Greatly
|
07/06/18
|
|
Possible Explanations of Death
A Personal Apocalypse
|
06/29/18
|
|
Teach Your Children Well
Lasko and Trump They are Coming To Get You….
|
06/22/18
|
|
Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty
Having Fun Without PaPa Al
|
06/20/18
|
|
Stephen Hawking Left Us a Great Deal
We Need To Follow Our Science Professor
|
06/15/18
|
|
Clarity About Dancing
Being Arthur Murray in the Real World
|
06/11/18
|
|
The Goddess Ganga
The Transcendence of Reality
|
06/06/18
|
|
Explaining Doing the Dance…
Man, the Lights Are Bright
|
05/23/18
|
|
Who Are Your Mentors?
Here Are Mine
|
05/21/18
|
|
Ten Years and Counting
What a Difference a Dance Makes
|
05/18/18
|
|
758 Horns of a Dilemma
The House of Cards
|
05/16/18
|
|
Forrester and Jamal
You and I
|
05/11/18
|
|
A Wrinkle in Time
Thinking Outside the Box
|
04/25/18
|
|
Dear PaPa Al.....
Dear Ti Ti
|
04/16/18
|
|
Frederick Douglass
A Better Man Than I
|
04/13/18
|
|
Bobby’s Suggestion About My Problems…
A School in Taunggyi, Myanmar
|
04/06/18
|
|
Marner and Eppie
Me and the Girls
|
03/16/18
|
|
The Question Is…
How Will You Be Remembered?
|
02/26/18
|
|
An Age of Revolution
If We But Know What To Do With It
|
02/16/18
|
|
The Widow’s Mite
And the Rich Donald the Dumb
|
02/09/18
|
|
The Water Horse of Loch Ness
And Our Water Horses of Life
|
02/07/18
|
|
The Art of Asking Questions…
About Which You Know the Answers
|
02/05/18
|
|
Moh Moh, Tin Tin, and Me
We Are the Incarnations of Bobby
|
01/31/18
|
|
I Failed
For the Time Being
|
01/26/18
|
|
What I Learned In High School
Applies To This Moment In Time
|
01/24/18
|
|
Lesson Learned About Dreaming
I Learned from Bobby
|
01/22/18
|
|
We Are Family
Versus Racism
|
01/19/18
|
|
Doing the Dance...
Fathoming the Unfathomable
|
12/11/17
|
|
Confucius Said...
But We Haven’t Listened
|
12/04/17
|
|
The Big Fib:
"I'm, like, a really smart person."
|
11/27/17
|
|
The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me
Ginger and Don Quixote
|
11/10/17
|
|
The Reason Behind...
Everything
|
11/08/17
|
|
Live in the Moment...
Plan for the Future
|
10/20/17
|
|
Free To Be Me—
A Driven Dancer
|
10/11/17
|
|
Ginger and Santayana
Remember the Past
|
10/09/17
|
|
Lawrence of Arabia
One of My Mentors
|
10/06/17
|
|
Ginger and I
Promises To Keep and Miles To Go Before We Sleep
|
09/29/17
|
|
The Double-Axe
A Symbol of My Identity
|
09/15/17
|
|
The Hollow Man
Who Wears Long Ties
|
09/04/17
|
|
When Dreams Aren’t Realized
What Should You Do?
|
09/01/17
|
|
Minnows or Manhood
Or Scent of a Woman....
|
08/28/17
|
|
Essay with No Words
But Look At My Eyes
|
08/21/17
|
|
“Better Angels of Our Nature”
In America, Mexico, and Burma
|
08/19/17
|
|
Clarence Page and Donald the Dumb—
The President of Trump University
|
08/18/17
|
|
Ti Ti and I
A Most Haunting Relationship
|
08/04/17
|
|
Macbeth...
Guilt Spills Itself for Fear of Being Spilt
|
08/02/17
|
|
The Pentagon Papers...
Then and Now
|
07/31/17
|
|
Oppie
The Scientist and the Philosopher
|
07/17/17
|
|
Just Drop Me Off
And Ginger’s Toy Dog
|
07/14/17
|
|
“Close to Treason”
It Is Close to Stupid but Not Treason.
|
07/12/17
|
|
Rage, Rage...
Against the Pissing Pug
|
07/10/17
|
|
What Did I Learn...
From Vinegar Joe
|
07/05/17
|
|
Impeachment of Trump
And the Tower of Babel
|
06/30/17
|
|
Donald the Dumb’s Dilemma
Falling from Great Heights
|
06/21/17
|
|
Teaching Donald the Dumb
There Is No Happiness Where There Is No Wisdom
|
06/16/17
|
|
The Ides of June
And Religious Ties
|
06/14/17
|
|
Ginger’s Predecessors
And My Domesticated Carnivore
|
05/19/17
|
|
Three Blind Mice…
And Bloody Mary
|
05/08/17
|
|
Brexit vs Scoxit
The Death Blow to the British Empire
|
05/01/17
|
|
Life Is a Bowl of Cherries
Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
|
04/14/17
|
|
Chick Magnet
And the Hauntings
|
03/31/17
|
|
The Hauntings
About Bobby and the Gingers
|
03/27/17
|
|
On Riding to Samara
Then and Now....
|
03/10/17
|
|
Invictus
Thank You, Mrs. Davis
|
03/06/17
|
|
Robert the Bruce
I'll Drink to Him!
|
02/17/17
|
|
Ginger, Socks, and Poe
Finding Lenore....
|
02/13/17
|
|
A Lesson of Life
Learned from a Cockroach
|
01/04/17
|
|
Deplorable...
Defining the Definition
|
11/25/16
|
|
Roll Me Up
I Am Free to be Me at 73
|
11/18/16
|
|
Tom Brokaw...
Another Dancer
|
11/16/16
|
|
On the Road Again...
Like a Gypsy
|
11/07/16
|
|
Dostoyevsky Danced with Death
As a Result, Became a Great Writer.
|
11/02/16
|
|
Resurrecting Dashed Dreams
By Continuing to Dream
|
10/17/16
|
|
The Fighting Téméraire
Explained My Nostalgia to Me
|
09/21/16
|
|
Why Do I Care?
More to the Point, Why Doesn't Everyone Care?
|
09/16/16
|
|
Confucius Say,
"Petty Man Understands Profit"
|
09/14/16
|
|
Rediscovering the Past...
Eleanor Roosevelt
|
08/31/16
|
|
The Meaning Behind the Man
The Man of La Mancha
|
08/29/16
|
|
Trying and Failing...
Is Better than Failing without Trying
|
08/26/16
|
|
Listening to My Mentors
And Dreaming Impossible Dreams
|
08/19/16
|
|
The Terrorism Trifecta
Three More Dances with Death
|
08/12/16
|
|
We Must Address Conservativism...
For Two Essential Reasons
|
08/05/16
|
|
Bobby Kennedy
Still Reaches Out to Us.
|
07/29/16
|
|
The Queen's Haunting...
Bohemian Rhapsody
|
07/27/16
|
|
We Shall Overcome
A Belief Amid Darkness
|
07/18/16
|
|
My Sherpa Statue Spoke
A Valuable Time Spent Listening
|
06/17/16
|
|
The 5-Things Test
Seeing Yourself as Others See You
|
06/15/16
|
|
The Angel Spoke...
And I Listened.
|
06/10/16
|
|
The Value of My Hauntings....
It Forces the Issues
|
06/03/16
|
|
Mr. Turner
The Dualism of Feelings
|
05/06/16
|
|
The Third Dance
Apparently Was a Misstep
|
04/27/16
|
|
How to be Smarter
Than We Think We Are
|
04/18/16
|
|
I am Don Quixote
But I Am Not from La Mancha
|
04/15/16
|
|
Worthless Windmills
Time Will Tell Their Worth
|
04/01/16
|
|
On Seeing the Light
Chuck, Paul, and Me
|
03/04/16
|
|
Two Roads in the Wood
Choose Wisely
|
02/26/16
|
|
Grave or No Grave
That is the Question
|
02/22/16
|
|
Best of Times, Worst of Times
It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely
|
02/19/16
|
|
Buddha's Strange Parable...
Which We Need to Understand
|
02/15/16
|
|
The Value of Dreaming
About My List of Dulcineas
|
02/12/16
|
|
Dreams will come to you....
If You Are True to Your Quest
|
01/22/16
|
|
"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun."
Randy Pausch is Correct
|
01/15/16
|
|
The Little Match Girl
And The Golden Statue
|
01/11/16
|
|
The Gift of an Angel
It is More About My Feelings
|
01/06/16
|
|
I Know Who I Am...
And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me
|
12/04/15
|
|
What a Feeling
And It Is a Great Feeling
|
11/20/15
|
|
Dr. Marchand Knows Medicine Well...
And He Knows Life Well Also
|
11/2/15
|
|
Doubling Down...
To Make Dreams Come True
|
10/19/15
|
|
It's Confession Time...
And It Isn't Sunday
|
10/09/15
|
|
The Mahogany Bench
A Place for Dreaming....
|
10/07/15
|
|
A Great Dancer with Death
A Sobering Experience
|
09/21/15
|
|
Putting the Pieces Together
The Joy of Coming of Age
|
09/18/15
|
|
Agnes Majors in the Minors
A Big Fish in a Drying Up Small Pond
|
09/04/15
|
|
The Value of Standing on Desks
Allows One to See the World Clearly
|
08/17/15
|
|
A Man with a Mission...
Sinking a German U-boat
|
08/12/15
|
|
Darwin, van Gogh, and Lindbergh's Gifts
For Owen on His Third Birthday
|
07/20/15
|
|
What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago,
Which I Finally Fully Understand
|
07/10/15
|
|
Career Opportunity...
Being a Gladiator
|
06/19/15
|
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Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens
How to Avoid the Ghosts
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05/08/15
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How Do We Learn?
The Lessons in Learning
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04/13/15
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Obama's Golden Opportunity
On Leaving a Legacy
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02/13/15
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Ozone to Ferguson
A Journey That Never Seems To End
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01/05/15
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It Was the Best of Times
It Was the Worst of Times....
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01/01/15
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A Hand Is Put Into Theirs...
And the Hand May Be a Little Child's
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12/29/14
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Serendipity...
Finding Without Looking
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12/12/14
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A Fool with a Plan...
Is Better Than a Genius with No Plan.
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11/21/14
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Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915
"I Never Died," Says He.
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11/19/14
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Seeing When You Think You See...
The Difference is Dazzling.
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10/31/14
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A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great
"Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal."
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10/17/14
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On Seeing the Light...part II
And I Thought that I Had Seen the Light
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10/10/14
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My Dots in Life Get Connected
With the Singing of Pete Seeger
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10/06/14
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Pushing Oneself...
What I Learned from T. S. Eliot
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09/14/14
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Darkest Before Dawn
A Logical Disconnect that Is True
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08/15/14
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Come Alive...
Before You Die.
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07/24/14
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Orwell and Scottish Independence
Or Smell the Heather and Vote for Independence
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07/18/14
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Burma-Shave...
And Seeing the Light
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07/07/14
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The Chilling Reality of Global Warming
Where Does Lying Get Politicians and the Rest of Us?
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06/28/14
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Moravec Evolution
or the 21st Century Scopes Trial
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06/21/14
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Old Men Should Plant Trees...
And They Should Be Planted Now.
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06/16/14
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Connecting the Dots With Jack and Owen
Teaching Them To Be Steve Jobs-esque
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06/14/14
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Jack and Owen
Novice 21st Century Johnny Appleseeds
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06/01/14
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Right-Brain Pain and Gain...
Getting Organized After Seeing the Light
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05/21/14
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Leaving a Legacy...
A Concern of a 71-Year Old.
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05/18/14
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The Cosmic Calendar
...and Our Importance on the Pale Blue Dot
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05/15/14
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Advantages of Growing Old
...You Will Not Be Here in the 22nd Century
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05/05/14
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Good Trip / Bad Trip
...the Great Benefits of Bad Trips
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04/21/14
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Faulkner's Lesson of Life...
Even When the Last Ding-dong of Doom has Clanged.
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04/17/14
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On Seeing the Light...
More Clearly
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03/28/14
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The Value of Travel...
Or Learning About Myanmar.
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03/07/14
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The Two Ladies:
Parallels between the Ukraine and Myanmar
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03/01/14
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The Blessing and the Curse of the Internet
...Everyone Will Have a Saved Memory
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02/20/14
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I Have Seen the Light...
Thanks to Myanmar and Dr. Marchand
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01/28/14
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