Dating & Mating Today
Chasing Butterflies While the Elephants Get Away It's nothing new, really... Whatever would we do without the commentary on virtually all the online forums and chat rooms focused on relations…
Like It Or Not, Collectively Trump is Our Guy
Time for Some Tough Love Like many others, I woke this morning to the news I was expecting by the time I went to bed, on election eve. Mr. Trump…
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…
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…
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 “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…