“And the desire for gold is not for gold, it is but a desire for freedom of choice” The Bernie and Donald phenomena comes from the same...

“Have compassion for everyone you meet, Even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of...

I was sitting on the deck of a friend's house recently with a group of others. As we were about to get up and get busy, a Swallow slammed...

We were on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Allen, South Dakota. A man I have gotten to know whose heart seems to be a big as he is, Dallas...

I was walking to my meeting. One that I had asked to have and had been scheduled for a couple of months. One of those meetings that was...

It was the very last moment of the last seconds of a month of living nearby our Granddaughters, Morgan (9) and Leah (5) their Mom and...

So I am sitting at a table, in NYC, at a private party. A table for eight. On my left was a world famous entrepreneur; to his left, one...

On one of my recent trips, I called back home to check in with my bride of 30 years. She was at home dealing with the 100’s of details...

“Why didn’t confront Carl on his B.S? You knew he was lying, I knew he was lying, everyone else knew he was lying and you just sat there...

I was recently listening to someone who was expressing how hurt, disappointed (and outraged) he and his wife were because their daughter...

“No apologies necessary, this is America. It is to be expected, it is everywhere at every level…” This was a message I received from a...

I’m pretty sure that I will never be put on a list of potential saints for fatherhood. One reason is that I am not a Catholic, (which is...

I recently got the news that an old friend, Rick, that I haven’t seen or heard from for 30 years or so, had just been diagnosed with...

So, I find myself out in the middle of "Nowhere”, South Dakota a few weeks ago. I was there, having convinced my family what a great idea...

In 2010 I nearly died. Rare complications from a routine medical procedure, some so rare that my medical team suggested that had never...

My 9-year old granddaughter, Morgan, asked me (each night she gets to answer the question, “Who would you like to put you to bed?”) to...

I was cleaning out some files today and buried in a long forgotten folder I found a letter. Dated August 1995. It was a letter I had...

I recently attended a workshop where one of the assignments was to write an imaginary letter from a descendant some 50, 60, 70, even 100...

“He’s gone”. “We’ve lost Jerry” was the news. The shocking news, really. He died suddenly and unexpectedly. I actually felt myself not...

My best friend John had invited my wife and I to have dinner with him and a woman that he had recently begun dating. In fact, I believe...