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A while ago, I was posed a sincere question by a curious Gen Z’er, “How do you stay so young?” With zero assumption that I have cornered the market on any fountain of youth, I asked for a bit of clarification. He spoke to the idea of being fun
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There the kid was, maybe 7 or 8 years old, out in the garage. She had found an emptied WD-40 can; remember the ones? They’re mostly blue but designed with primary colors, with the red spray mechanism on top. It came with a narrow red straw, that attached
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Last week in my community a terrible thing happened. In the middle of the school day, just past eleven in the morning, three teens in two cars decided to race down the road from the high school. It’s the primary thoroughfare in the area, and is thus highly trafficked
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Oh, how the pendulum swings… left to right… right to left… And when the pendulum swings swiftly and forcefully to a perceived extreme end, it disrupts the entire mechanism. The pendulum only rests in the middle. I’ve played with this idea for years now — how the political pendulum swings
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Some things unite us. Today is one of those days (even if it’s only the commercials). Hence, some interesting tidbits and facts that may or may not be related to the actual sport… The very first Super Bowl wasn’t called the "Super Bowl," and it also
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With its origins dating back to 1915 when historian and author Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and later initiated the first Negro History Week, Black History Month has been nationally recognized in this country since Pres. Ford’s official message
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Fortunately or unfortunately, every now and then we need something to shock us back into remembering that which is most important. Definitely unfortunately, often what shocks us into remembrance is tragedy. One of those moments horrifically occurred Wednesday night. We are still reeling from the shocking reality. 64 people on
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What a month… what a pace… and so we make observations, looking at January, asking what people asked… [Note: below are the first 65 Q’s we saw in the news. Note, too: not all news sources are good at asking questions.} 1. After Trudeau, Can Canadians Get Their Free
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One of the phenomenons that I can’t quite wrap my head around these days (nor years) is how much people talk about Donald J. Trump. Love him or hate him, people like to talk about him. Reverence or repugnance, people still talk; they just use contrary words, share conflicting
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Yes, one more thing. There’s a new administration, meaning a new “head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces”… a new President who is now “responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress”… And let me again say this; we will understandably have varied
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If nothing else, call it an interesting alignment of events… Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, dedicated to the equality of all people, the service of others, and caring for their physical and spiritual needs. It’s “a day on, not a day off.” As his widow, Coretta Scott
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“Great results begin with great questions” — Marilee Adams in Change Your Questions, Change Your Life I’ve long referred to the American University adjunct professor’s work as my favorite book. It probably, seemingly slightly influenced my perspective when a trusted friend gifted me a copy soon after it came