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…
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, and country music. Like many…
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…
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 and the confident settling…
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…
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 collapse, and…
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 the Moral Majority. As I was…






