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.
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!Occupy Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful that young people—in the streets and otherwise—are, openly and with persistence, questioning authority.
Read the Rest!NBA=WPA?
“It’s not practical, possible or prudent to have a full season now. We’re going to have to recalculate how bad the damage is. The next offer will reflect the extraordinary losses that are piling up now.”–NBA Commissioner David Stern
Read the Rest!Another GOP Orphan
Based on some of the reactions I received to last week’s Rant, it may be worse out there than even I expected.
Read the Rest!Adopt a (Real) Republican
To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics.
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