The Hopes of our Neighbors “Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” –Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption If you’ve ever spent a Saturday afternoon scrolling through your TV channels and landed on TNT or TBS, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen The Shawshank…
The author Jon Meacham wrote in the “Art of Power”, his biography on Thomas Jefferson, that “he (Jefferson) knew, though, that life was best lived among friends in the pursuit of large causes, understanding that pain was the price for anything worth having.” This week Arizona lost a friend – a pursuer of just causes,…
I don’t want to trivialize one person’s suffering, but the United Airlines passenger incident last week reminded me a little of how I felt in the 2016 elections last summer and fall. Instead of being dragged off the plane against my will after I paid for a service, I was dragged onto a ballot I…
As we conclude Passover and begin the celebration of Easter, it is appropriate to recall that on this date, April 14th, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 152 years ago. His death happened a mere six days after General Lee surrendered his army at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia to General Grant – bringing the American Civil…
My wife Patricia and I just returned from a trip to Kyoto, Japan, the ancient Imperial capital. Patricia lived and worked in Osaka for six years in the 80’s and early 90’s for a modeling agency, so it was a return trip for her and an eye opener for me. We rented a traditional Japanese…