Whiffing on What Really Matters?
We are as divided as we let ourselves be. I would love to say that U.S. citizens collectively can be relied on to reason from evidence to a thoughtful if…
At the Fringes of Empirical Scientific Method
In Praise of Science If you’re like me, you’re fascinated by the (at times) overpowering intellectual reach of the men and women working at the scientific frontiers. How could we…
Men This, Women That…Blah, Blah, Blah…
Can we stop, already? Gender Polemics, anyone? There’s been a lot of back and forth on gender roles lately, on Medium, one of the online platforms to which I contribute.…
Confronting Our Dual Nature
Humans...the rational animal? I don’t remember the first time I heard being human characterized as being “the rational animal.” Aristotle, it is said, argued that man is “a creature distinguished…
We Sad Prisoners of Myth
One Man's Take on the Human Condition But first, a call-out to a fellow author…a while ago, I ran across a post on Medium. I found it thought-provoking enough to…
Love-a term in need of explanation?
Is love not the gift we give ourselves...and each other? Relationships, Situationships and Slippery Love Prelude Recently, Dr. T.J. Jordan posted a thought-provoking article in Medium, an online magazine that I…
The Father I Never Knew
The Old Trash Bag Drag... It Happened to Me, So I'm Told... Mystery shrouds the male contributor to my genetics. At least so far as I'm concerned. He was out…
Leadership and Followership
What the Marines I Led Taught Me This Memorial Day, my neighbor and I—Vietnam era vets—were swapping lies, as we washed cars. By so many metrics, we could hardly be…
The Winds of Change
Knowing and the Paradox of Uncertainty Seeing isn't knowing...or understanding I don’t recall exactly when I felt that first ripple of awareness that we—all of us—were changing in ways that…
The “Death” of Marriage
“Happily ever after” often isn’t… All you need is love? Photo courtesy of Unsplash and Annalise Benevides A couple months ago, one of my favorite writers on Medium, an online magazine…