My dog Sadie, even though she is a canine, causes me to think about human nature. She loves food and people in that order. It’s a basic...

A Closed Sign I recall a time when I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. We have a home on the Chesapeake in Cecil County, Maryland. I...

Photo by Waldemar Brandt The title above is the title of a study done in 1978 by Brickman et al regarding the steady nature of happiness...

My Photo On My Steel Mill Badge Today is Labor Day which celebrates the importance of the working class. Every politician wants to be...

Mark Twain once said: “The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." When I think...

Barry Switzer, former football coach at Oklahoma, has perhaps the best statement that I have seen regarding classism. “These so-called...

Photo by Rory Bjorkman We have heard the term, gaslighting, used frequently by the news media. When I first heard it, I didn’t check out...

There is observational bias that occurs when people only search for something where it is easiest to look, I would add, where prejudice...

Peter Salovey, President of Yale University, had a copy of his address to the Class of 2020 in the recent “Yale Alumni Magazine”. What...

Whether you are a Republican or Democrat you have to recognize the tough road for women seeking political office. I have had the...

There are many great things about teaching high school students Ethics for 38 years. I learned so much about decision making, the nature...

I didn’t know what Tiktok and Snapchat were so I asked my sons. Most of you know that they are 15 to 30 second sound bites of personal...