Save Democracy! So: what American – with a stripe of patriotism in their multi-layered personal make-up – would decry that rallying-cry? I mean, come on: if America was/is drowning in the political floodwaters of 2025, wouldn’t you want to jump in and save it? Are things in the (formerly) United States reaching the point of […]

It’s Monday. Mid-August. I’ve been preaching balance, margin and focus as a framework for life well lived, for decades. “Balance” includes some regular and recurrent Sabbath time with family. Am I practicing what I’ve been preaching? And, in this emerging virtual world… could I replace myself with Artificial Intelligence for this weekly communiqué with you?

My faith tradition doesn’t involve confession to clergy, resulting in spiritual prescriptions leading to absolution. For we who operate outside that church structure, pent up revelations can lead to a need to unload, somewhere. Modern culture allows people to vent in other ways. Speaking the truth can put relationships at risk; too often, the BFO

Where are you, today… and what are you doing there? If you’re opening your (e)mail to start your week, it’s Monday morning, and you’re probably gearing-up for another week in the salt mines. “Salt Mine?” That’s a pejorative idiom for dull or unpleasant labor. Maybe you’re one of the fortunate who relish their return to

So: you’ve got an evening with no commitments; no tomorrow-deadlines for work; nobody coming to entertain. For some, that’s an invitation for some recreational reading; for others, it’s time to fire-up some of those subscription streaming services. What’s to watch? Safe-at-home audiences often lean toward crime as a first-choice genre: people doing bad things sounds

A few seconds after telling a reporter in a press conference on Tuesday at Royal Portrush that he doesn’t read many books beyond the prayer devotional on his iPad, Golf World’s #1 Scottie Scheffler spent five minutes and 40 seconds tackling a philosophical question that has plagued the sharpest minds our world has produced, and

How are your daily routines keeping you in-touch with what’s going on around us? I’d love to know your answer to that sincere query; I’d be honored to share mine with you to prime the pump of that conversation. What are your habitual disciplines to be aware of your life and setting? Here’s my daily

Somebody needs to figure this out. For me, the temptation to play amateur traffic cop happens every time I’m behind the wheel. Every time we pull out of the driveway, we’re entrusting our lives to nameless/faceless humans who are behind the wheel of 3500# death machines, hoping that they have a baseline awareness of the

Would you allow me to take you into the “ancient history” of the late 1970s for a few minutes? As your docent, I promise to give you a look at some vignettes that might portray a dramatic principle that could be a game-changer for you – if you take time to ponder the points. Are

I remember “when.” The world in which I was raised never assumed that everyone would know everything, all the time… with updates coming instantly and constantly. Most people subscribed to the local newspaper, which landed in the driveway near days-end every day, except on the weekend, when it appeared in the morning. The “nightly news”