Every situation has more than one side to the story. Maybe two, maybe ten. But humans crave simplicity. We don’t like to live with the stress of ambiguity. We want fewer facets to consider, not more. We want our problems…
I was sad to see the statue of famous abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, in Rochester, NY torn down and damaged this past week. Here’s the Douglass statue news story. Sad for a lot of reasons but mostly sad because it shows a…
Why do we always look up in the sky, as if it held answers? The impulse is so automatic, I’m sure school kids would look up to see if a multiple choice answer were written by contrail, if there were…
The odd part about the new normal is how a few moments sneak up on you which are just like the old normal. Then you can’t tell if you are at the end of the old normal or beginning of…
Sometimes words don’t matter. You can say whatever you want — it goes in one ear and out the other, no matter who you talk to, no matter the topic. Lecture notwithstanding, the words just flutter out into nothingness. Chipmunks…
