My Thanksgiving tomorrow is with one of my daughters. She has given me one job: mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes are the wallflower of the party, that poor pale kid forgotten about amidst the … [Read more...]
The Spirituality of Beech
Well, stick season is upon us. Sure, there is still a passel of trees along city streets with limp yellow or curled brown leaves hanging on – overachievers that will soon succumb. Oaks may be the … [Read more...]
The Bridge to April
It is a new day and election result are now out in the open. Here in the Finger Lakes, lawn-sign season ends as of today. Along with limp Halloween decorations, front yards and curbsides get emptied … [Read more...]
A Question Before You Vote
Edwin Friedman was an author and leadership consultant well-known for his family systems approach whether working with an individual or organization. A primary assumption of family systems theory is … [Read more...]
Navigating Epochal Change
Jamming this into five-hundred words for a newspaper column is complicated, but stay with me here. It is also important. Culture is a lens, one given to us at birth and adjusted throughout our … [Read more...]
When there is no place to go to the bathroom
I spent the Columbus Day weekend in Philadelphia. I have a grandson there, as well as my daughter and her husband, I should add. My wife and I often remark that we didn’t know grandparenting was a … [Read more...]
When Place is Metaphor
Hitting bottom is not a place, it is a metaphor. One of the gifts of the Twelve Steps of AA, is the black letter clarity they give to something that is otherwise full of confusion, weirdness, and … [Read more...]
Critical Thinking
“HONG KONG — They are sitting in orderly rows, wearing neatly pressed uniforms. But in this class, as they debate the merits of democracy and civil rights, Hong Kong high school students are … [Read more...]
My Dog
This post first appeared as a weekly column in The Finger Lakes Times (NY) With all the low-hanging fruit this week, it is tempting to gesticulate wildly about the imposter in the White House and … [Read more...]
The Enemy
If you read this column even occasionally, then you know my affinity for beholding trees, birds, water, the seasons, and discovering in the minutiae of relationships between them, some unexpected … [Read more...]
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