I was a Cub Scout for about a year. It wasn’t my thing really, but I did learn a powerful lesson that has always stuck with me: how to accept failure. You see, I’m not a perfect person. …

“We all want to get the economy opened back up.” This is the first phrase I hear from all these politicians. And sure, when your entire culture is based on transferring wealth from hand to hand to hand in an upward trajectory, creating both a desire to get more and…

Now this could have been a way to go: Instead of the multi trillion dollar bail out for mostly industry and comparatively little to the average person, the government could have issued a moratorium of all mortgages/rents, basically a pause in everything, offered to cover all the utility bills for…

Race in Diversity Conversations Problems persist because people are too uncomfortable being uncomfortable. Yes, we have to work towards common solutions, but we also have to be OK with not having an answer, with understanding that our discomfort may be a step towards building bridges towards each other instead of…

Discrimination and injustice thrive in an atmosphere of silence. When good people feel unsure about offering support and solidarity to those bearing the brunt of bigotry and hate, the likelihood of even greater abuse increases. When the vocal minority becomes louder than the rational majority and pretends to command the…

“If you allow the wrong people to get into office, things could change, they could change and they could change fast.” -U.S. President Donald Trump, on the eve of Brett Kavanaugh being sworn in as a justice on the SCOTUS. We’re not used to hearing the truth from Donald Trump…

( I originally wrote this piece about gun regulation and the 2nd amendment in 2005. I stand by much of it today and would even go so far as to add these to the regulations I mentioned: create unity of regulations between states and the federal government; regulate storage of…

When someone talks to you about expanding your point of view to better understand the mental gymnastics that make their subtle racism, bigotry or hate palatable to them, know that their values are the ones history has left behind, they are the ones refusing to grow. For the record, I…

I hate to admit it but lately I’ve been at a loss for words. I’ve already rewritten this first sentence half a dozen times just trying to figure out how to say I’m not sure what to say. It’s unusual for me to be in this position because writing has…