We had quite a bit of drama in the household a few evenings ago. Isabella, newly installed into the 2nd grade, expected some family and neighborhood lay-downs when she started pitching magazine subscriptions for the annual contest. Apparently, depending on how many subscriptions you sell, and how much money you collect in a two-week period of time, [...]

I remember, years ago, taking the est training. It was way back and certainly within the first decade of its infancy. I can remember any number of takeaways and many stay with me today. As a matter of fact, I can probably say that the primary life drivers for my perception of reality today came [...]

You know, it didn’t occur to me until I read Peggy Noonan’s column a couple of Saturday’s ago in the Wall Street Journal that the John Birchers are apparently dead. Fresh out of law school, I remember debating the Chairman of the John Birch Society in Florida back in the years that mattered. He was [...]

It occurred to me that, at a certain point in one’s life, you go from crafting your own originality in your earlier younger years to being concerned about being trapped by that originality years later. It’s as if the early originality becomes your personal prison if you can’t break free of it later. The French cuffs and [...]

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with two intelligent female professionals in a business consulting firm in town who had come over to chat with me a little bit about a particular company who had retained them to put together a detailed strategic plan which involves a potential offer to investors. In the context of [...]

I remember, back in 1980, being enamored by Libertarian philosophy. It had ideological clarity and a pristine point of view. So, with a young group of ideological Mensans, I headed to the Libertarian National Convention, the objective of which was to nominate a Presidential candidate to actually run for office. The convention was held in Denver, Colorado, [...]

Tell the truth! How many of you have not secretly wanted to be on The Actor’s Studio, answering those famous questions James Lipton presents, with fanfare, a certain level of humility, and an appropriate attribution to the source? • What is your favorite word? • What is your least favorite word? • What turns you on? • What [...]

To the extent our fingerprint is a manifestation of our individual identity, so too can we think of the the universe as God’s fingerprint.  The universe is the fingerprint of who God is and how God manifests: in science, in math, in art, in music, in language, in human evolution, and in all their components and derivations. [...]

A Few Introductory Comments Jordan, just out of the 9th grade, is in a summer composition program at Lake Highland.  He was asked, as his opening assignment, to write an essay on a topic which affected him personally. He wrote it, and after it was finished, he asked me if I would read it. I [...]

I can’t help but wonder, as I sit in on President Obama’s performance,  listen to the escalating rhetoric fired at BP and witness the massive attempts to CYA on behalf of countless government officials, whether the spill has tested our limits of what government can do and should not dare to do. Let me explain. Two [...]