As we prepare to observe the national holiday honoring the roles working men, women, and children have played in building our nation—which too many of us will spend doing everything but that—I’d like to offer a little prayer.
Read the Rest!Four-legged, Bi-winged Karma
If you’re anywhere near Face in a Book bookstore in El Dorado Hills tonight, before 8 PM, do drop in for the book launch party of The Dog with the Old Soul.
Read the Rest!Empathy: Vice or Virtue?
Last Friday morning, KXJZ, our local National Public Radio outlet, aired Episode Three of Season Two of Radiolab, where—in their words—“the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.” I was half-listening, as I’m wont to do when also working, until something grabbed me.
Read the Rest!You’re In?
Today, I’m going to perform a public service by attacking an issue that’s moved in and out my consciousness at least four times in the last half-century and could very well become a national crisis—“A Sleeping Giant at Our Doorstep,” as Reader’s Digest might call it—if not confronted squarely.
Read the Rest!Go Get You Some ‘Sun’
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Read the Rest!Shut Up, Pay Up & Let ’em Learn
My oldest grandchick left the nest today. Because both his parents are schoolteachers, I was given the honor of escorting Jonas to his first day of Kindergarten today.
Read the Rest!Mayor Pascal’s Father’s Watch
Putting together last Friday’s post, I remembered that my pal, Dr. Barry Pascal, had written a touching and memorable remembrance of his father a while back.
Read the Rest!Eight Reasons the Olympic Movement Can Save Us
As London’s 2012 Summer Games come to a close—well done, Brits!—I’m more convinced than ever that the global Olympic movement, if pushed forward and nourished properly, can be our nation’s and this planet’s salvation.
Read the Rest!Getting Past “Passed”
“I hear no one gets out alive.” Thirty-five years ago, I shared an office in the Cannon House Office Building with another young lawyer, Jay Turnipseed. He had two young daughters; I had a two-year-old boy, with another on the way. Jay had been diagnosed with Stage IV Hodgkin’s Lymphoma which, at that time, was untreatable.
Read the Rest!Let Us Begin (Again)
Welcome to my new world! I’ve been on hiatus since last Christmas. There’s a reason–I spent almost all my time caring for my older sister, Kathryn, at home through her last illness; helping our family and friends remember and celebrate her life; and winding up her affairs.
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