Last week we slew the monster that is microaggressions. In addition to transferring the power to determine how you feel about a situation to someone else, microaggressions place the focus on one’s own needs rather than those of others, exactly the opposite of what we need to be doing to…

Something extraordinary happened during the live 2022 Oscar ceremony. Chris Rock, a well-known comedian, was about to present the award for Best Feature Documentary. Before doing so, he looked at Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of actor Will Smith with whom she was seated at a table in the front of…

“Gunman Murders 19 Elementary School Children” would have been a near-impossible headline when our nation’s current seniors were small children. Americans would never have tolerated whatever cultural aberration could have birthed such an abominable tragedy. How things have changed. As heartbreaking as the Uvalde cataclysm is for all Americans, few…

We previously introduced the concept that there is no right or best choice. In today’s essay, we will expand on this most important topic. Yogi Berra, the New York Yankee catcher and infamous deliverer of many a humorous aphorism, once uttered these words: “When you come to a fork in…

Some religions claim that each individual has a unique purpose. God, they say, has put each of us here for a reason that is ours and ours alone. Perhaps, but the clues we have uncovered over the past nine essays say otherwise. Collectively, they imply that there is a universal…

Death. Just the word is spooky. Say it out loud and the temperature in the room seems to suddenly drop. Most humans harbor at least some anxiety about death. After all, at the moment of our death, everything instantly ends. Our relationships. Fame. Wealth. Power. Pleasure. …

Although we spend a good deal of time watching historical documentaries and reading, studying, and discussing history, none of those activities seem to make much of a difference in how we behave in the present. We replicate just about every behavior of those who came before. To ignore history is…

Today we tackle the question of why everything seems to get dirtier, messier, and more disorganized. A few weeks ago, you might have wondered why anyone would pose such a foolish question. Of course things get dirtier, messier, and more disorganized! Now that we are viewing all questions through the…

As we have explored in previous essays, many things we think we understand, that we take for granted, are not what they appear to be. Reality is on that list. Reality is the summation of the daily events that confront all of us and in which we all participate. We…