“You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear. You’ve got to be taught from year to year. It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear. You’ve got to be carefully taught.” Hating people who are different from ourselves isn’t something that is hard wired into our brains. When Richard Rodgers wrote “You’ve …
Many people work hard at the necessities of parenting. It is literally the most important thing many of us will ever do in our lives. My daughter and her husband are wonderful parents to the six children in their blended family, and one of the things truly special about them is the effort they put …
I’m proud I had the opportunity in the last election cycle to vote against David Perdue. Twice. If only I lived one Congressional district to the northwest, I could take pride in voting against the Klan Moim, Marjorie Taylor Greene. And I will probably get the chance this fall to vote against Herschel Walker, Brian …
“Once there was a woman who came into your life …” One of the great thrills of my life grew out of one of the greatest friendships. My friend Bill Madden and I are now in the 50th year of our friendship, and late in our first decade, we wrote a book together. If you’ve …
“I wanna give you a little history lesson on homelessness. In 1910, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets and practice his oratory and body language and how to connect with the masses and then went on to lead a life that got …
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About five years ago, , there was a major earthquake in Guatemala. It was a big one — n0t the big one, but a 6.9 on the Richter Scale –and since my daughter and her family were living in a different part of what is a small country, I was concerned until I heard from …
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“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them …
When I was 12 years old, I was kind of obsessed with numbers. I recently found a small spiral notebook in my mother’s house. It was a partial chronicle of our trip from our home in southwestern Ohio to New York City in the summer of 1962. I’m pretty sure it was at least the …
I don’t remember the first time I saw the NBC peacock on my television screen, announcing that the show about to begin would be in color. I don’t remember the first time I saw a show on a color television set. I’m pretty sure it was sometime around 1961 and it was at my grandparents’ …
I’m sort of appalled at how reluctant I have become to try new things. For the last few years, I have been doing crossword puzzles and other word games in an effort to give myself a fighting chance to stave off dementia as I age. I got pretty good at the New York Times and …
