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!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!Christmas Truce?
As we hurtle head-long into the vortex of congregation, celebration, and consumption that our culture’s Christmas ritual has become, the following question nags at too many of us, from the backs of our minds: How can I find a little Christmas peace and happiness, in the midst of all this turmoil?
Read the Rest!One Book Sacramento: In Twain
First off, the props: Congratulations and gratitude to the Sacramento Public Library, the Sacramento Bee Book Club, and the National Endowment for the Arts for making Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer this year’s Big Read/One Book Sacramento selection.
Read the Rest!How Green is my Footprint?
Oh, to be raised by an engineer. In my workplace, the rest of management mouth “green,” but that’s about as far as it goes.
Read the Rest!Wheels IV
Picking up from last week: Steering, biking, pedaling, and shuffling stupid.
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