Valentine’s Day Thoughts, and All Kinds of Love

Valentine’s Day Thoughts, and All Kinds of Love

Valentine’s Day often centers one kind of love — romantic love — as if it’s the measure of all the rest. But the Ancient Greeks understood something we sometimes forget: love takes many forms. In All Kinds of Love, a call back to a post I first wrote in 2015, I...
Saying Yes to Saying No

Saying Yes to Saying No

Of course, Bruce Springsteen found the words and wrote the anthem for these times. And the searing pain of his musical indictment is gut wrenching. In October of 2015, I wrote The Paradox of Power after I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. There, I had...
Keep Calm and Carry On

Keep Calm and Carry On

Photo: Yorkshire Sculpture Park-  Barbara Hepworth’s The Family of Man If you are wondering why our journeying took us to Dublin, Berlin, Leeds in the UK, and Amsterdam, let me explain the context.  When we received an invitation to my grand-nephew’s bar...
Ich bin ein Berliner

Ich bin ein Berliner

Photo: Eastside Galleries Arriving at the airport in Berlin, we immediately spotted a kiosk where we could purchase multi-day tickets to Berlin’s transportation system – its trains, subways, and buses.  If you know the board game, Ticket to Ride, it’s like that,...
Top of the  Morning to You!

Top of the  Morning to You!

Being a native Bostonian, Dublin and surrounding towns were the ancestral homes of many of my peers growing up. So I have some  familiarity of Irish culture, and curiosity about the humor, the poetry, the wit, the writing, and traditional Irish music. We spent...

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