November. Thanksgiving. America. 2018. Framed by my desk window, three deer in the yard are nibbling on my Burning Bush, which has taken on its rose-red autumn color. It’s a pretty picture. And my ongoing question — Is this a…
Read more
The beginnings of the thinking animal can be traced back to around 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists tell us that 194,000 of those 200,000 years were pre-civilized, but during which we had the same general physical makeup as we have now….
Read more
It’s been said that our inner clock stops in a particular decade, because it more or less defines us thereafter. For my parents, born in the teens, that decade was the 30’s, which contained most of the Great Depression and…
Read more
It’s sickening how often war has been hallowed by religion. Same for the Crusades, the burning of witches, and too-numerous-to-mention other atrocities proclaimed as something holy. Especially sickening have been the prayers on the side with extreme weapon superiority. And…
Read more
In the late 1960’s, not much older than my students at Central Michigan University, I was part of the student-driven anti-war movement — the rallies, the marches, even the take-over of certain buildings. Then in class we’d sit in a…
Read more
At a friend’s apartment, over the course of several evenings, a few of us watched the Stanley Cup semi-finals. The games were exciting, but for me it was the gathering of men that was the larger fun. We were all…
Read more