Every week, thousands of adults and kids rent Limos for special occasions. Whether it is sleeping on 800 count sheets for a few nights in 5 ...

What follows are excerpts of an exchange of emails with my friend Damon . In fact, given that we both blog, you might even call us "e-m...

I once had a philosophy professor who was a fascinating fellow. As a monk, he had kept a vow of silence for about a decade. By the time he w...

Perhaps my favorite Peter Drucker quote is, "Most problems cannot be solved. And most problems are made irrelevant by success." Th...

Tonight at the DNC, Governor Ted Strickland, of Ohio recounted Molly Ivins' quip about George H. Bush, "He was born on third base a...

I’ve high jacked Ron’s blog to post the 25 (of the many) reasons that I love Ron for our 25th Anniversary. To have and to hold (the best of ...

The candidates promise that they'll run a clean campaign. And soon they're slinging mud at one another - accusing the other of being...

We now live in a world where the fastest man is named Bolt. It’s as if the folks at Marvel or DC Comics have taken over from Newton and Eins...

Over the centuries, we've accumulated a number of cabinet positions at the highest levels of government: secretaries of state, treasury,...

He had already dropped out of the race by the time that we Californians held our primary, but I voted for Joe Biden anyway. He won my vote b...

A good soldier is like a good gun. He doesn't ask questions about where he is pointed, he just moves in that direction. A leader, by con...

Here, in no particular order, are pictures and commentary from our family vacation in Cancun. This is the reason for the trip - my favorite ...

Sandi and I celebrated our 25th a few weeks early and went to Cancun with the adults formerly known as our children, just returning last nig...

YouTube has become a part of the culture. Now it is time for derivatives. Me-Tube - videos of people trying desperately to keep up with tren...

Eternity is not something that starts after you die. That is the afterlife. Eternity is something that’s already going on. It was going on b...

She wanted to work on her relationship with him, which was a pity, really, because it kind of missed the point. She was playful and if she w...

There are a variety of considerations when choosing a VP running mate. Like the Bush men, you could choose a VP who so frightens people that...

It might be that all policy failure is simply a failure of empathy. Tribes have emerged in America and it is becoming more difficult to crea...

Bernard let out a sigh as I approached the table. “How are you doing,” I ask rhetorically. “Maddie is explaining to me again why my marriage...

A couple of years ago, my darling daughter introduced me to My Morning Jacket. This (new?) song of theirs is straight up great rock n roll. ...