We are now hip deep into the Holiday Season.  All around us lopped off fir trees are piled in corner lots waiting to be brought into our homes and laden with electric bulbs and flammable decorations, television ads are full of happy smiling people opening boxes filled with ‘just what I’ve always wanted”, and radio […]

Within the past several weeks Americans have witnessed several news events created by unscrupulous people who will do just about anything for the sole purpose of becoming famous.  I won’t give these media hounds the publicity they seek by mentioning their names, but we can discuss their actions. Read more about The Siren Call of […]

In America the fourth Thursday of November is celebrated as a national holiday known as Thanksgiving.  It is the only holiday completely unique to this country and is rooted in our earliest history when European settlers, who had landed on our shores in 1620, gathered to give thanks for and feast on the fruits of […]

From the time we wake up in the morning till we go to sleep at night, the media is constantly informing us about what’s going on in the world.   And whether we are tuned to the local TV station whose top story is about the latest mugging, robbery, rape, or killing on the streets […]

I read an interesting book this week entitled The Next Evolution: A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, by a visionary gentleman name of Jack Reed.  It’s premise is simple… our world is becoming polluted, our resources are disappearing, the vast majority of Earth’s people are starving, disease ridden, or worse, and even those who think they’ve got […]

An article appeared in today’s newspaper about a number of social innovators who will be receiving awards this week for work they have done to solve community and world problems in their “encore careers”.  According to Civic Ventures, the San Francisco non-profit sponsoring these awards, this refers to people over 60 who are embarking on […]

Here’s a fun question.  What if one single advancement in technology could turn Earth into an absolute Eden, a place where war was unknown, nobody starved to death, and everyone really and truly had the opportunity to do and become the very best they could imagine?  What might that advancement be? Read more about What […]

One reason to ask the question “Why Should I Care?” is simply to ponder the opposite scenario. What if nobody gave a flying crap about anybody else? What if we actually lived in a Mad Max/Clockwork Orange Society where everyone just took what they wanted, did what they felt like, and ran roughshod over anything […]

I was listening to the ten o’clock news last night and was regaled by the usual progression of natural and man made disasters – floods in Samoa, roadside bombs in Afghanistan, fires in Southern California, political repression in Iran, several murders in Oakland, and just in case that’s not enough to keep the juices flowing, […]

It should come as no surprise to anyone possessing even the slightest powers of observation that civility in America is dead. Now I am not speaking here of the long lost art of chivalry… spreading one’s cloak on the ground so mi’lady can daintily step across the puddle without soiling her toesies. No, I’m talking […]