In early June I noticed a sore on the inside of my ear that for the past several months would heal, then open and heal again. I finally...

With the recent suicides of two very famous, very public figures, I’ve been asked more than once, how I make sense of what they did. As a...

After one of my recent “Touching Mortality” workshops, one of the participants suggested that I write about something I had briefly...

Just leaving a pal’s house, let’s call him Jo. I met him 30 years ago. He was a rock star in my world. He’d been handpicked to work with...

A young man I’ll call Carl who had just completed a listening seminar I’d conducted for the Gates Scholars at Cambridge University, came...

An Accounting A long, long time ago, I was teaching a class called “Pre-Colonial American History.” I was sharing with the class...

A while back I attended a gathering of several thousand people and I was clearly in the minority. There may have been a dozen other men...

I recently was invited to help a friend who was to be featured on a television program that would be reaching millions of people. It was...

Over the last few months, I have received several questions along the lines of “So what are YOU doing about these things that you seem to...

I wrote this story a few years back. Over the last few months as I have been trying to figure out what I might do to help make things...

I was recently asked to do a Sunday morning talk for the local Friends Church (more commonly known as the Quakers). The instructions...

It was about a year ago when I sat as a guest in a Lakota healing ceremony. During that ceremony I listened as an elder talked to several...

In May of this year a young 20-year-old Lakota man from Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota was cornered by police after a high speed...

With my head bowed, through my tears and grief, in a barely audible choking voice, I was finally talking with my dad. After years of...

I received a letter the other day from a client. I’ve asked for permission to share it this month as my blog. I am often asked what it...

“For it is important that awake people be awake…the signals we give—yes or no, or maybe— should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.”...

I’ve wondered what MY ancestors did when the Japanese were interned during World War II. I’ve wondered what MY ancestors did when a ship...

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a different idea, never regains the original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes When you look at this...

“The more I understand about where I come from, the more I can make sense of where I am” I recently wrote about my perspective regarding...

We are experiencing the aftermath of a very polarizing and divisive national election. Now more than ever we need to be reminded of the...