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“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.” Francis Bacon

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    Any Regrets? Looking Back at What Was Worth It and Not.

    January 27, 2026 / 1 Comment

    A hop skip and a jump and I will turn 60-years old. Well, in a few months I will turn 59. But that is close enough. I have a lot more in my rear view mirror than in front of me, for sure. But it allows me to pause and look back a bit. What do I regret? What don’t I regret? I have seen many of my peers struggle as they move into the beginnings of the autumn and winters of our lives. Health struggles, money struggles, relationship struggles. You name it, they have it. I have friends who are on the verge of retirement and their lives have…

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    Eh, You Take the Good With the Bad

    May 16, 2022

    Using Self-Talk to Self-Manage

    February 23, 2024

    Am I Too Cautious?

    May 20, 2022
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    The Soundtrack of Mortality: Beyond Words

    January 15, 2026 / 1 Comment

    It must have been sometime during the summer of 2017. I was driving south on the 5 Freeway through Camp Pendleton on my way to San Diego to visit a college friend I had not seen for years. I remember it was during the summer. Beyond that the exact details are blurry. But I remember the emotions of that moment clearly. “Trudy has cancer again. It is mostly in the breast tissue. But the scans show it has also spread to the hip bone, spine, and the liver.” My dad delivered this information to me about his wife, my step-mother, Trudy Rideout. This was not her first bout with cancer.…

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    Leave JK Rowling Alone, FFS

    October 15, 2022

    The Blessings of Adversity — Control What You Can Control

    April 25, 2020

    Happy 25th Anniversary to My Personal Webpage!

    October 6, 2021
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    Is a College Education Worth the Money?

    January 11, 2026 / No Comments

    My wife and I have been saving since literally almost her birth to pay for our daughter’s college tuition. Year after year we put money in her 529 investment account for college. Each month we would put at least a few hundred dollars into it. The money added up. Then in November of 2025 – some 17 years after we created it – we took action to take money OUT of the college savings, not put money INTO it. That was a change. I created an account on their website and directed them to mail me a check. The money would flow in the opposite direction, right when we needed…

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    My Love/Hate Relationship With AYSO

    September 20, 2018

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    November 30, 2017

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    June 17, 2022
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    Strong Isn’t the Same as Fit – Attack of the “Gymfluencers”

    January 8, 2026 / No Comments

    I recently read that weight lifting in the gym is the hot new trend, and along with that the American consumer’s desire to eat more protein: this is health nowadays, or so the trend says. Weight beating exercise using barbells is in; cardio on the treadmill or out running is out. There is supposedly a strong “lift only” culture which argues against cardio-dominant exercise.  This confused me. I asked a friend who was into this and she explained it to me thusly: “People have learned that endless cardio does not result in weight loss, and it can even harm more than hurt you. Cardio breaks you down. On the other…

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    “But nobody much reads my webpage. I can say what I think.”

    May 24, 2016

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    February 27, 2023

    Computer Upgrade: Done

    November 28, 2009
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    Japan and the United States: Culture Is Larger Than Conflict

    December 20, 2025 /

    I enjoyed watching the Japanese baseball players Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shohei Ohtani on the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team last month. They played crucial roles to help the Dodgers win their second straight World Series pennant two months ago. They were heroes not only in Los Angeles but also in Japan. Two years ago I had a similar feeling while watching the South Korean baseball player Ha-Seong Kim play shortstop for the San Diego Padres at Petco Stadium. Congrats to Kim for making it into the big leagues in this “American” sport! I like it. South Koreans and Americans alike should celebrate. A Japanese sumo champion is to be expected.…

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    “Who the f**ck do you think you are?!?”, Part I

    December 13, 2020

    Public Health Experts Say Covid Isn’t Over, but the American People Believe Otherwise

    August 16, 2022

    “Tell them I am old-fashioned.”

    March 22, 2023
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    “Would My 20-year-old Self Admire the Woman I’ve Become at 50?”

    December 2, 2025 /

    My daughters are on the verge of adult life. One is already a freshman in college. So I have less and less to say to them about how to choose a career or a spouse, or any of a dozen other topics. “Little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems,” parents more veteran used to warn me. So far that has not proved too true for me, as my daughters have grown up without major problems. I consider myself lucky as hell as a parent: my daughters are both healthy and thriving. I have seen the other side of the coin with teenagers involved with serious drug and/or mental health…

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    My Library, My Daughters; My Legacy, My Life

    November 30, 2021

    To Be One Way in Public, Another At Home

    November 18, 2015

    A Rule Violated Today: “Avoid Lawyers and Doctors, As Much As Possible”

    February 16, 2023
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    Two Outsider Populists, One Sick Democracy

    November 24, 2025 /

    It has come to this: — The elected Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) member who has not had any serious managerial experience in anything previously and recently rode a wave of populist enthusiasm into office. Mamdani represents the progressive edge of academic-style Leftism in the United States, part of the “anti-colonial” Global South – embracing rhetoric such as “globalize the Intifada,” language critics argue echoes Hamas-aligned activism, playing footsie with terrorists. Then there are the promises of government-run grocery stores, “free” day care, rent control, $30 minimum wage, and high taxes. SOCIALISM. The nanny state. “The problem with socialism is that sooner…

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    The ‘Fog of War’ and History Happening Right in Front of You — the Ukrainian-Russian War, Four Weeks In

    March 23, 2022

    My Jane Austen Problem

    October 29, 2021

    My Buddy (Probably) Gets a Permit to Carry a Gun

    June 8, 2021
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    Creativity and Community Online: Unfulfilled Promises

    November 19, 2025 /

    My webpage is 29 years old and counting. October 1996 was when it first went live. I accept no advertising on my website, and I spend zero time and energy trying to promote it. It is a labor of love, not profit – nothing more, nothing less. I write on it for myself, and I sometimes forget others read it. Many of my best friends don’t know it exists, and I would be a bit embarrassed if they brought it up. I rarely talk face-to-face with anyone about my website. It is sort of a secret, and I sort of like it that way. I write on my blog semi-surreptitiously,…

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    Half-Way Done: I Will Not Allow President Trump to Make Me Crazy

    September 26, 2018

    My Oldest Daughter Turns 16-Years Old

    March 15, 2023

    In Memoriam: Trudy Rideout, My Stepmother, Died Today

    October 6, 2020
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    The Patrimony of Music: A Letter to My Grandpa

    November 17, 2025 /

    Dear Grandfather, I write this letter to you approximately 36 years after your death.  We lived some 375 miles away from you when I was growing up, so I did not have the opportunity to know you well. And by the time of your funeral in 1989 you had been in the throes of deep decline and dementia for years. But you were the patriarch of the family, my father’s father; I know more of you from family lore passed down through stories than I ever saw with my own eyes. Your story is well known. You earned generational wealth as a successful banker, and you and your wife raised…

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    This Life Will Break You

    December 3, 2022

    EVERYONE LOSES

    March 26, 2022

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    August 28, 2025
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    29 Years Today

    October 31, 2025 /

    Today is the anniversary of my mother’s death. It has been 29 years to the day since she died. Every Halloween when neighborhood children go house to house to get candy, I sit at home and mourn the loss of my mother. It happened almost three decades ago, so the wound is not new. But the wound is still there. I have written often about this unhappy anniversary. So this anniversary is 29. That is notable only because next year is the clean round number of 30. That will be a moment. Thirty years. Wow. Earlier this year my Uncle Bill finally died. He had been suffering for years from…

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    January 16, 2019

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    May 21, 2018

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    November 25, 2009
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    Reading in the Age of the Algorithm: “Where Do You Live, Richard?”

    October 14, 2025 /

    Yesterday I was at home after work and found myself on the verge of finishing Charlie Sheen’s recent autobiography. I don’t regret reading his book, although towards the end I was heartily sick and tired of his tales of damaging drug abuse, salacious porn/sex, and multiple failed marriages. (I imagine Sheen was tired of it, too.) Reading biographies is almost always worth my time, I find. In the past year I have read the life stories of not only Charlie Sheen but Ione Skye, Tess Henry, Alex van Halen, Suzy Favor Hamilton, Frank B. Gilbreth, Liara Roux, Rick Bragg, Carrie Otis, Jimmy Carter, Laura Delano, Patrick Mouratoglou, Molly Roden Winter,…

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    Can You Hear It?

    July 14, 2021

    Pandemic Diary IV: The COVID Winter — “Control what you can control, and let the rest go.”

    December 3, 2020

    The Demise of Roe v. Wade and a “Summer of Rage”

    June 25, 2022
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    Meditation in Motion: The Wall and the Way

    October 5, 2025 /

    It is my quiet place. It is where I can be by myself, get my pulse rate up, and earn a light sweat. It is where I can get my hands and feet moving in unison with the yellow ball. It is the wall at Buena High School.  I have been going there for some 14 years once or twice a week. I am almost always alone. I just go there and hit the tennis ball against the wall. The wall never misses, the ball always comes back, and so I hit it again and again and again. It is great practice. The former tennis pro and noted coach Brad…

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    The Homeless in Ventura: Frustration, Confusion, Ambivalence, Avoidance

    October 15, 2019

    Jesus, I Hate My Photo

    November 23, 2024

    My Nightmare: Indecision and Incertitude

    May 6, 2017
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    The Passionate Amateur’s Faith: Inspiration, Error, and the Work of Becoming

    October 1, 2025 /

    Struggle is the way. Difficulty is not a problem but the point. One struggles and one grows. It is an active process, not a passive one. One needs to wrestle with a thorny problem. School should be where one learns to do this. Cheating has always been a problem in school. The Pandemic and remote learning gave energy and momentum to cheating in American schools, in my experience. But ChatGBT has taken it to a whole new level, especially in the universities. The idea is to use technology to “hack” the learning process, getting good grades without having put in much effort. I have heard of students bragging that they…

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    June 13, 2021

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    COVID-19 Arrives At Last to My Household

    January 24, 2022
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    Letter to My Daughter in Her Sophomore Year: the Path, the Obstacle, the Way

    September 18, 2025 /

    Dear Elizabeth, I write you this letter upon the request of your Science Academy teacher. He says he will hold onto and deliver this letter to you when you are on the cusp of graduating from high school. That is approximately two and half years from now. So here it goes: Beautiful daughter, you are currently well into your sophomore year of high school. Finally! You are really into it now: Honors Chemistry with Mr. W… that class will rock your world. Honors Math, Honors History: the content stage of your K-12 education is upon us. As students colloquially say, “Shit has gotten real!” I love it. I have been…

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    January 2, 2017

    Concupiscence, Judged

    July 23, 2020

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    August 7, 2019
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    Chaos and Discipline: What Sets Rock Legends Apart From Classical Musicians

    September 14, 2025 /

    There are musicians, and then there are musicians. Ozzy Osbourne and Daniel Barenboim in the photo above, for example: they are both musicians but their training and careers could hardly be more different. The point of this essay will be to examine precisely how they are different, and how they are similar. The life of a professional pianist in the classical music world demands the utmost discipline and commitment. Look at the below description which describes the training and life of a concert pianist as compared to a professional athlete: That is intimidating, to put it mildly. Then look at the van Halen brothers from the late 1970s and 1980s.…

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    “Why We Send You to School” — An Open Letter to My Eldest Daughter

    April 3, 2020

    Japan and the United States: Culture Is Larger Than Conflict

    December 20, 2025

    “Working For a Living: the Theory and the Reality”

    October 1, 2021
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    Heroes With and Without a Ball: Rethinking Who Deserves Our Esteem

    September 10, 2025 /

    I have always thought – and said out loud – that I did not really think someone like baseball player Shohei Ohtani or tennis superstar Carlos Alcaraz were really all that big a deal.  So one can pitch and hit a baseball supremely well, and the other covers the tennis court like a gazelle and hits the cover off the tennis ball. They are among the best of the world – if not the best – at their respective sports. The two generate huge profits and are paid accordingly. They are almost household names globally. Big deal.  In the end, they are playing a sport with a ball. Nothing much…

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    December 14, 2024

    “Que Sais-Je?”

    May 16, 2023

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    September 28, 2022
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    Laird Hamilton: I Wanted a Warrior-Monk, I Got a Superfood CEO

    September 9, 2025 /

    I always thought he was sort of god-like. In my mind I saw big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton, and his pro volleyball player wife Gabrielle Reece, walking along the Hawaiian beach like Adonis and Aphrodite. Two almost perfect physical specimens – both graceful and beautiful, strong and vital. But they have been married for decades, and Laird is currently 61-years old. A few months ago I said to myself, “What is the physical cost of having engaged in high-level athletic activities for decades? Surfing monster waves since the 1990s?” I knew tennis star Jimmy Connors needed both his hips replaced by 50-years of age – a direct result of decades grinding…

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    “Mushin” – A Legacy to My Daughter

    October 31, 2023

    “Happy Fifth Birthday, Daughter Julia!”

    May 21, 2012

    The Blessings of Adversity — Control What You Can Control

    April 25, 2020
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    The Body Cannot Travel Where the Mind Has Never Been

    August 28, 2025 /

    “No, I’m not getting in the car with you. If you want to shoot me, go ahead. But I’m not getting in that car.” Everyone has – or should have – a line they won’t cross. For me it is this: I’m unwilling to allow my person to be transported by force to another location where thugs can do God knows what to me. I don’t care if someone draws a gun on me and orders me to get in their car. No, I’m not getting in your car. I won’t be under your power in that way. You can shoot me first. That is one line I won’t cross.…

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    October 7, 2022

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    November 12, 2020
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    “Nuclear Laundry”

    August 6, 2025 /

    This is the pile of laundry I leave after a hard session of competitive tennis. “Nuclear laundry,” I call it.  I come home, get out of my sweat-drenched clothes, put them in the laundry hamper, and take a shower. I put on fresh clothes and am finally clean. But the workout clothes are just disgusting. They have a musky, elemental smell not unlike what is encountered in my daughter’s boxing gym. It is not armpit, nor groin… but some combination of both and more? If it could, I would think the clothes should be STEAMING. They are NUCLEAR! If you leave these putrid clothes utterly drenched in sweat in your…

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    March 27, 2023

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    Against Fascism, For Stalin? The Hard Lesson of Hemingway’s Hero, Robert Jordan

    July 24, 2025 /

    Almost 38 years ago I first read and enjoyed Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” I read it avidly over a stretch of two or three days in September of 1987. I had just moved into my apartment to start as a student at UCLA. I remember it well. My oldest daughter herself will start at UCLA next month, and I am reading “For Whom the Bell Tolls” again. But this time I am reading it in Spanish – “Por Quien Doblan Las Campanas,” translated from English into Spanish by Lola de Aguado. I chuckle a little to myself thinking how Hemingway wrote about the Spanish Civil War where…

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    November 8, 2023

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    May 24, 2012

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    November 2, 2015
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    Why the Piano Reigns Supreme: Ten Fingers, Endless Complexity

    July 17, 2025 /

    As a musical instrument the flute or the clarinet can be used in conjunction with other instruments to create harmony or counterpoint. The same is true of the human voice. It can sing, for sure! But as a solo instrument, there are limits. The flute can be the primary instruments in a large orchestral work, as seen here – Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 has a famous flute solo in its final “Badinerie”: Or the clarinet as seen here in Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, with its beautiful middle “Adagio” movement: But they are still one voice in a larger…

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    “Thank You, Kind Sir” – A Parenting Memory Which Endures

    May 15, 2025 /

    The Mimi’s Restaurant at 3375 E Main St. Ventura, California went out of business in February of 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic. The building at that location has been an empty shell for several years. But I still remember the evening we took our toddler to eat there. It must have been sometime in 2008. Struggling with a colicky baby and feeling more than a little overwhelmed, my wife and I wanted to go out to dinner. After months at home struggling to get sleep and deal with our new arrival, we wanted to feel like adults and venture back out into the world. After seemingly endless groggy days and…

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    “I Am My Father’s Daughter, and I Am Not Afraid of Anything.”

    April 28, 2025 /

    A Concerned Father’s Bequest: Confidence and Competency Yesterday I read the unhappy news of a murder in the 12600 block of Riverside Drive in Los Angeles, California, some 47 miles away from where I live. Almost 30 years ago I dated a woman who lived in the Valley Village neighborhood almost right next to where this crime occurred, so I know the area. This news hit home hard. Here are the facts as of now: Early in the morning of April 23, 2025 in the five-story Ashton Sherman Village Apartments, someone reportedly heard a fight in a neighboring unit and a man’s voice saying, “I am going to die. I…

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    Learning to Wait

    April 10, 2025 /

    Patience. It is such a small word. But there is a lot in it. Our relationship to time, and our ability to endure it, changes drastically across a lifetime. It seems like forever from your seventh to your eighth birthday. Time moves slowly. Everything is intense. Impatience is all. By the time one enters middle age each successive year seems to pass quicker than the previous one. My dad calls this the toilet roll theory of time: as you near the end of the roll of toiletpaper, it seems to run out faster and faster. The same with life. I remember back in the mid-1970s being forced to go to…

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    “It Will Be What It Will Be”

    April 3, 2025 /

    Indecision. A time of transition. Change: The process of leaving one situation and entering another. The world might look like one thing at the end of it. Or it might be totally the opposite. You might arrive at place x. Or at place y. It can be stressful. You arrive at a turning point where the status quo changes, and it could go one way or another; your mind is tempted to run wild in contemplating the possibilities. The “fight or flight” reaction of your ancient lizard brain designed to survive threats takes over. Chemicals are released into the bloodstream. The heart rate accelerates. Your mind focuses on what is…

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    Willis Francis Geib, Father David, O.P: In Memoriam — Of Death and Rumors of Death

    March 10, 2025 /

    “Are you looking for Father David?” No, I am looking for my Uncle Bill. This was the response I always gave to that question, although I never said it out loud. My Uncle Bill was known as “Father David” in his religious order, the Dominicans. They were his religious “family,” and when he was ordained a Catholic priest over 56-years ago (photo gallery) he took a new name — Fr. David Willis Geib, O.P. That was his professional identity. And the Dominicans were a second family to him. But we were Bill’s first family. His “real” family, as I saw it. His personal identity, before his religious one was grafted…

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    “A New Age is Upon Us.”

    March 1, 2025 /

    It was quite a show on Sunday February 9, 2025, or so I heard: Kendrick Lamar performed in the cultural center stage of the Super Bowl halftime show at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, decrying his supposed bitter rival Drake; I know this because I read about it in the news. I did not know who either was. I did not watch the Super Bowl this year and I never do. I did not know anything about the rival rappers involved, and I don’t care. Beef between two singers — this is worthy of my time and attention why? My answer: “No.” I was told Lamar’s performance was…

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    Walls That Speak: My Bedroom as a Reflection of Self

    January 27, 2025 /

    Often a reader of this blog might remark that while one gains a good glimpse of what I might think about fatherhood, politics, literature, or whatever, one does not get a good up-close inspection of myself and my daily surroundings. Much is abstract and ephemeral, little is concrete or immediate. I will try to remedy that problem in this posting. I’m going to show you where I live. This is my bedroom –  – and seen from the opposite direction –  My younger daughter came into my room recently and said the images I have all over my walls were “inspirational.” This is not by accident. I put great thought into…

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    The Frog and the Scorpion

    January 22, 2025 /

    Back on October 7, 2023 the Hamas terror group in Gaza unexpectedly burst across the border into Israel and killed some 1,200 Israelis. Others were reportedly raped, and 250 Israelis were kidnapped back to the Gaza Strip where most of them perished. I wrote about it a week later here.  That was over fifteen months ago. Last weekend Hamas and Israel finally signed a ceasefire to the full-scale war which resulted from that attack. The time has been a stretch of misery for the people in Gaza. Hamas, unable to fight the Israelis in the open, has hidden behind the civilian population in a guerrilla struggle. Hamas has lost a…

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    “Four Books Per Month”

    January 1, 2025 /

    Way back on January 1, 1995 I sat down with my good friend Brent Burns at the Marine Room Tavern in Laguna Beach, California and we penned our resolutions for that new year. (Here is the document.) I hoped we might make this a tradition. We could hold each other accountable for trying to become better men by conscious deliberate effort year after year. I was 27-years old then. Brent did not keep up the practice, unfortunately. But I did. By my count, I just completed my 23rd iteration which I posted to my webpage. I have enjoyed them! I take the tradition of making resolutions semi-seriously. I’m 57-years old…

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