Do you recall when you first became consciously aware of color?  I do, my ‘awareness’ of color was accompanied by my first box of Binney & Smith Crayola Crayons—all eight of them.  But that was a millennia ago; today Crayons come in at least 124 colors including...

Education Week Magazine described Critical Race Theory as an academic concept embracing the core idea that racism is a social construct; that it is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies. The...

A close long-time personal friend has a problem getting his letters-to-the-editor published for two reasons - first, the editor won't print anything longer than 200 words and getting a meaningful political message across in less than that is difficult and secondly, my...

No blog for me on this Memorial Day, just a most appropriate quote - "The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men." MINOT J. SAVAGE

Today I want to congratulate our graduating seniors, and at the same time offer a few insights I wish someone had given me when I graduated high school a million years ago.  And the first of those insights begins with the best definition of success I’ve ever come...

When solutions to complex societal issues aren’t readily apparent people will in many cases outsource their critical thinking to their favorite talking head on TV and then parrot that opinion. But issues such as the opioid epidemic, teenage suicide, police reform and...

Last week I wrote about a fable and its moral—that gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. But this week’s I decided to relate a true story that has no moral nor even an underlying message. It’s simply a fascinating tale about Kenya and the...

A fable is a short story that illustrates a moral lesson. The plot of a fable always includes a simple conflict and a resolution, followed by a maxim.  And perhaps the most enduring of all fables were those told by the Greek slave and storyteller, Aesop, who lived...

In 1837 Hans Christian Andersen wrote a folktale about an Emperor living in a great city who was exceedingly fond of new clothes.  Life was good and the people of the city were happy.   Every day strangers would arrive and among them were two swindlers who let it be...