Keeping Your Head in (All) the Game(s)

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning ligh...

Back in 1996, I traveled to Bali with a small group of like-minded individuals. It was truly a magical journey. After several weeks toge...

I am not one who believes time flies. I don't think everyone at the reunion looks old. Each day follows the last and yes t...

"To change our life;  Start immediately  Do it flamboyantly  No exceptions"   --William James Psychologists are div...

A couple of months back we had a power outage. No big deal it was basically five hours and lasted only into the early evening. I know w...

These words from an old friend I have not seen in nearly fifty years. Via Facebook we have in some small cyber way reconnected. "Go...

Some things really are out of our control. It really shouldn't be difficult to accept that nostrum - we can't hold back a hurrica...

Last month the movie Argo was  released. Purportedly the movie depicted the smuggling of six Americans out of Iran by the Canadian gover...

"Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday;  I can't be sure." A good friend mentioned last week that he missed the personal st...

In celebration of today's National Football League Super Brawl I offer this memoir of my personal disenchantment with professional sport...

Photographers call the light just before sunset - "the magic hour." The low, saturated illumination makes for memorable images. Fr...

Yesterday's writing task was to rework the opening chapter of the novel I am working on. Capturing the reader's attention quickly wa...

From 1975 to 1990 I lived in and around the South Bay neighborhoods of Los Angeles (Manhattan Beach, Torrance, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes ...

As I explained last week, I have as yet been unable to balance the palliative benefits of pain reduction with the side effects of being hig...

Osmose - to gradually or unconsciously assimilate some principle or object; Have you ever stopped to consider how many of your deeply ...

Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment that was known As Camelot. My brief shining place was...

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field . -- Niels Bohr I am not claiming to be an exp...

Last week when Irene was blowing around the East Coast, I heard a news report about evacuations on the Carolina Outer Banks and I was ...

Well I'm off again, on the road for 2+ months and according to Google Maps 6,262 miles. The motivation for hitting the highways again, l...