Thank God we are in the place where the world wants to live. Next time you are in a hospital, nursing home, or driving by a construction site, look at the variety of faces and listen to the voices doing these tough jobs. Higher on the spectrum, immigration feeds into the technology and programming that […]
When everything falls away, there will be little left but the memory of who we were, and the good and the bad we left behind. It will not be the number of followers we had on Facebook or the cool picture we posted on Twitter or Snapchat. It will not be our social media profile […]
Sometimes an F-bomb is the only appropriate response. I’ve learned this over time as my parents never cursed or associated with people who swore. I am not sure whether we Americans curse more than we used to, or whether it has become more common to hear and read in the media. In any case, the […]
With the news that Deondre Francois is returning to Florida State University for his last year, my immediate thoughts regarded how much more damage this young quarterback can endure. Francois not only missed an entire season to injury, a review of the highlight reel will show him being pummeled on numerous occasions, including sustaining concussions. […]
One of the unspoken reasons Americans flock to online shopping is the diminishing quality of customer service. It’s not just for lower prices and convenience. It’s getting more and more difficult to experience civility and great service when we go out, so we are staying home more and having purchases brought to us. While most […]
It is hard to evaluate an elected official’s fitness for office. The nature of our political system has evolved not to get the best and brightest, but to get the most obstinate, most malleable, or most likable. John Adams, eventually to become our second President, saw and lamented the rise of the two-party system, set […]
When asked about my disappointment with not being selected for appointment to the city commission seat I once ran for, I said that’s not the end of the story. I still have to go to church with some of these people! As I get older, I realize that loss is a significant part of life, […]
There are many movies this time of year that my family enjoys watching. Home Alone, Die Hard, A Christmas Story, and many others. I always watch It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wizard of Oz. There is an underlying theme in these films that we may not fully comprehend. Each deal with facing fear, standing down […]
When recently asked what my greatest failure in life has been, I realized my view of failure is different from others. History teaches us, from Thomas Edison to Walt Disney, that failure is often a necessity for sustained success. The year 2012 was a tough one for my family. I lost an election for the […]
One of the best things we can do as Americans is get outside our own country and see the differences in how other people live. I learned a lot about our culture 25 years ago when I spent a semester abroad in Japan. I traveled across the country and several cities and never once ran […]