Category Archives: Ripped from the headlines

Helpful Life Hints: How To Respond To Art You Don’t Like

I think anyone who has ever made anything has had someone, sometime, make some flip, off-handedly bashing comment about it. Not always to the maker directly, not even considering that they or someone they know might be nearby to hear … Continue reading

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Because Why Preach to the Choir?

and because I can:

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Lies – from the quote box

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. — Immanuel Kant Continue reading

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Quote for These Times

But every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. It can spell either salvation or doom. Continue reading

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November 9, 2016

I urge all my friends and family though to remember that what happened is part of what Ameica is and more importantly WE are what America is. This is not the time to withdraw into hopelessness and darkness. This is the time to shine the light of goodness and community and hope and to work hard to achieve, on a neighborhood, community, state and national level, all the things we think are important: inclusiveness, commitment, fairness, accountability. All the things. Continue reading

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