It’s amusing to sit in the aisle seat on a commercial flight. The passengers walking toward the rear of the plane look so serious, scanning for a potential seat like nervous freshmen checking out the opposite sex at a school dance—wondering if they’l...

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I wrote this in my journal last week: “All worthy institutions fade into irrelevancy in the absence of compassion.” The statement could have been referring to any number of “worthy institutions.” The government. The church. Corporations. Schools or ...

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There is reading, and there is writing. One is learning, and one is contributing. They are symbiotic; one reinforces the other, and both are essential. The challenge for me is choosing which one is best at any given moment.   Do I spend most ...

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Today, while touring a display of the works of blown glass artist Dale Chihuly, I was struck by a written summary of his work. Chihuly, a plaque on the wall asserted, is “well aware of the complexity and contradictions” that his glass medium holds. T...

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“Romantics” get a bad generalization rap. Usually the extra adjective “hopeless” gets attached to them—as in, hopeless to avoid colliding with pain, disappointment and disillusionment. The conventional thinking is that the more romantic one’s outloo...

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Sure, it was just a matter of time until I wrote a blog about Jim Morrison and The Doors.   I’ve spent the past few weeks immersed in an audio CD biography on the singer entitled, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis. An even mor...

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