What Do Parents Tell Their Children?

I’ve been wondering recently …

What do parents tell their children these days about the lessons we all thought were embedded in our culture as we grew?

Scraps — is that all we have left?

I suspect that, much as we take on some of the characteristics of our most unique and identifiable leaders and prominent public figures from time to time (“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? — and Winston Churchill, and Ike Eisenhower, and Martin Luther King, Jr?”)…

The Lessons Of Superman (and Supergirl, Superboy, and Superwoman) — Truth, Justice, and the American Way

This is not about our current White House occupant. Rather, it’s an attempt to trace the differences between the ideals on which generations of…

D-Day, Golden State, Team Sky; The Loner, or Stronger Together?

Maybe it was the recent remembrances of D-Day which started me thinking. The Allies, each of which had individual reasons to resist and overcome Hitler, fell short repeatedly until they agreed to work together. Working…

So let’s think, and talk, about Truth (pt 1)

This would seem to be the simplest of the three tenets laid out in Superman’s mantra. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary says, in part, “(1) the state of being the case, (2) the body of real things, events, and facts;” and a bit later, “the property…

Moving toward the core: What Does Truth Have To Do With Justice?

I asserted in my prior posting that Justice for All is an essential element, and perhaps the core of, The American Way. I’ll acknowledge the possibility of debate, but I doubt anyone can show me or the readers that the…

What If? Teachers, Refuse Collectors, and Everyday Warriors

A long time ago, I was told by one of my mentors that much could be gleaned about a person — or community, or nation — by observing how they valued their Teachers and Garbagemen. The point, as I suspect you’ve inferred, was not…

Is This The American Way?

Since initiating this TruthJusticeAmericanWay collection based on the motto of Superman, I’ve written the two previously posted pieces on Truth. I’m likely to be writing more about it, especially as it seems to be treated lately by public figures as somewhere between an abused…

Musketeers, Soldiers, and Patriots(?); Justice and the American Way

I’ve been thinking lately about D’Artagnan, or, more precisely, about the motto by which he and his fellow Musketeers lived — “One for all, and all for one”. Not sure what brought it to mind; the French elections…

Thinking about Truth (pt 2)

So … should we blame it all on Harry Reid? Oh, wait a minute — let me catch up to myself.

This time, I want to pay attention to the problematic third part of the Merriam-Webster definition of Truth I mentioned in pt 1 — “a judgment, proposition, or idea…