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Author, columnist, and blogger with a long career in business management, management consulting and executive coaching. I've authored and published eight books: "You, Your Self and the 21st Century,"The Flowers Are Talking to Me," and "Faith Stirred Not Shaken," Christianity in America, "The Martian Prelude," Faith Stirred not Shaken, 2nd edition," "On Coaching with The Birkman Method." "On Coaching with The Birkman Method," and coming soon is my new book, "Loosing" Your Mind: Liberating Your Intellect for Critical Thinking." For sale at your favorite booksellers or the publisher's site: booklocker.com
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Monday, May 8, 2017Let's Pause for Sanity. If you're religious, you might say that meditation and prayer are attempts to experience God. If not, you might say they're attempts to experience the true nature of reality. Either way, we should learn to respect each other's journey toward a common destination that goes by many names. It might save our shared reality we're so fond of arguing about.
Friday, May 5, 2017House Republican's Health Care Bill: If It Walks Like a Duck The Republican Healthcare Bill is the rich person's tax relief plan of 2017. Understand the details before you take a position.
Monday, May 1, 2017The Destructive Illusion of Certainty There is one cognitive bias that is very common in today's world of constant streaming data. It's called confirmation/disconfirmation bias. We find evidence for and against any proposition to validate what we already believe. In a practical sense, we believe the evidence that confirms our point of view and ignore what doesn't.
Thursday, April 27, 2017What Happened to Compassion? I read a quote some time ago, and I can't give credit to who said it. But to paraphrase, if we are going to keep pulling drowning people out down-river, we should figure out how to stop throwing them in up-river.
Friday, April 21, 2017Can I Learn to Stop Worrying and Love This Bomb? We all have a serious choice to make. And that choice is beginning to look like the last real freedom we have. With the takeover of government by the military industrial complex, only mass voter turnouts will balance the power.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017The United Airlines Incident Isn't Just About Airlines Look deeper into the causes that resulted in a man being mugged on an airline. A shift in corporate mission to maximum profits gave birth to this kind of treatment decades ago.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." Continuing to make America great requires a continual supply of new people. Different people with different ideas. Otherwise, as we know, closed systems tend towards chaos and decay.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017We Are the Enemy. While a large portion of the country is frightened of foreign terrorism, the real enemy is our willingness to disqualify each other's opinions because of their political affiliation. We're harming ourselves.
Saturday, March 4, 2017Let's Hear It For Those Kids in Private Schools! Sure school choice is good thing. Especially when you can ignore a bigger problem that causes the reason to choose a different school.
Friday, February 3, 2017Trump: "I will totally destroy the Johnson Amendment." Trump's statement was a nod to the Fundamentalist Christian Evangelical Right [i] who supported him. Their goal is that found in Christian Dominionism. His promise is another step in a well-organized plan that starts with the Home Schooling movement.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017Is the Oval Office the Proverbial China Shop? The jobs replaced by automation won't come back. The terrorism done by American citizens won't be eliminated by banning immigrants. The deregulation of laws that protect us and our environment won't provide clean air and water. The wealth that accrues to the top one percent won't trickle down. The clueless billionaires who head up agencies they don't understand won't be the saviors of the common citizen.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017Believing Everything We Think: The Cognitive Bias that Keeps Us Stuck. We can't do anything to completely eliminate the cognitive biases that both help and hinder us. There are hundreds of them, and a quick Google search will turn up plenty for a rainy day's contemplation. But this article deals with just one of the many.
Monday, January 23, 2017Alternative Facts are Real Facts During the last several years we have been traveling a road to perdition. This road being the road to different information sources to justify our opinions. So much so that we've arrived at a point where we've diminished the value of facts in favor of strongly held opinions.
Saturday, January 21, 2017Science, Religion, or Both? Science tells us one story and religion another. Neither is complete. Neither offers absolutes. Together they offer profound new questions. In union, they can give us a depth of understanding that leads to a new level of comfort and assurance.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017The Pencil Points in our Reality The intrusions into our reality are often the golden moment of learning and new awareness.
Thursday, December 15, 2016Is the Appeal of Fake News an Ominous Sign? Much of our inability to discern the truth from a lie is the absence of grounding or a baseline from which to judge. The public domain has been creating this void for years; this void being a "post fact" society.
Saturday, December 10, 2016Where Are We Going and Why? We can see the frightening symptoms all around us but few can identify the causes. It might be because they are so deeply embedded they are transparent to the casual observer. But we might have the answers under our noses.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016Politics Be Damned! Unity Demands More. This is not about politics. We will never agree there. This is about our moral health. This is about the failure of the American promise.
Thursday, November 10, 2016We're Not All Haters Because Trump is President Elect. It's easy to fall prey to the idea that the United States is full of haters. That's only partially true. Most of us are disturbed and disappointed.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016Bemoaning the Loss of Innocence. What Have We Wrought? How did we get from a time of innocence to the current election antics being played on the national stage? The theater of the absurd started some years back.
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