GAINS & GLEANINGS | As the pace of change accelerates, the world spins on just the same
Life on Earth was a hard, mostly rural, wearying slog for centuries, and technological advances were made at a stately pace of one or two major changes in any given… Read more.
It starts with courage: Making shootings in our towns old news
I was recently pursuing a regional online news site and noticed a bold headline about a homicide in McCandless. A 38 year-old man was shot and killed in the lush… Read more.
Time to sue? ACHA’s track record for making pretty promises, walking away continues
When I was approached about Allegheny County Housing Authority proposing a broad new, nice, mixed-income, mixed-retail/residential plan to rejuvenate the dilapidated Read more.
GAINS & GLEANINGS | The master has gone but there’s something to be learned
Santa Rosa, CA/USA - 3/6/19: Gordon Lightfoot (front and center) performs at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. A Canadian singer-songwriter in folk, folk-rock, Read more.
GAINS & GLEANINGS | Unfairly stained: Declarations should be built on more than assumption
One of the reasons I can’t stand the cavalier use of cries of racism when something doesn’t go a person’s way is because it can serve as an easy excuse… Read more.
GAINS & GLEANINGS | Grievance rarely pays the bills, so stop complaining and get to doing
In this oddly hyper-sensitive era where so many things are determined by how folks feel about something, the ground is fertile for bad information, rumor, innuendo Read more.
GAINS & GLEANINGS | There’s more in store than you could imagine
About 20 years ago, I dropped my friend Robert Bradshaw off in New London, Connecticut for a class at the Navy Chaplain School prior to his commissioning as a naval… Read more.
GAINS & GLEANINGS | When normal ain’t normal anymore what then?
The term “new normal” gained traction in 2009 when then President Barack Obama used it in an attempt to lower economic expectations on the heels of the 2008 Read more.
Strange expectations from the ‘moral majority’
In the 1980s, the political landscape of America was very much influenced by a self-proclaimed religious group, led by famed televangelist Jerry Falwell, called Read more.
It’s a great idea but the question remains, is it working?
There are a lot of ideas we wish would work. It would be lovely if they would, and many of them are peaceful, uplifting, non-judgmental, and seemingly forward-leaning, Read more.