Here are this month's suggested topics to begin conversations with others. Where it goes is up to you!

the mental health pandemic our young people have been struck by is worse than anything we have faced as a free society.

I recently hiked a stretch of the Appalachian Trail in Maine known as the “100 Mile Wilderness” with my two sons; and even being...

Looking back on the Teens, or the Tens, gives perspective on an incredible decade. It began deep in the throes of the financial disaster...

Our discussion of Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life - an Antidote to Chaos began with criticism of his verbose prose and slightly...

Note: This blog is a working copy of an in-person presentation to my Bowdoin College class reunion, limited to 4 1/2 minutes. A...

Note: originally written in the summer of 2020, and unedited to retain its historical perspective. Two weeks of self-isolation has...

As a child, i envisioned God from the image of the Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a great, giant, all-seeing...

A black swan is an unexpected event, considered an outlier that no prudent person would have seen coming. The world has always been a...

I took a junior year abroad in Munich Germany in the late 1970’s. That year I learned what socialism did for the people in those...

A recent study by the University of South Australia has concluded that exercise is 1.5 times as effective as therapy or pharmaceutical...

The Fringe tree of my childhood stood at the end of the breezeway, a small ornamental tree defining the corner of the lawn and driveway,...

As we approach the weirdest Thanksgiving in my life, here are ten things I’m thankful for. My town, the place I grew up, the place that...

About a hundred years ago at a county fair auction in England, auction organizers held a little contest to engage the crowds: guess the...

RISK FOR A RICH LIFE I’m in the risk business. The first thing I want to do is bust the myth that risk people want only to reduce...