• What’s an e-book?

    Are you among those who are confused by the concept of an e-book? If you look around on my site, you’ll see that my novel Babe in the Woods and my non-fiction exploration Chasing Smallwood are both available as e-books. But what’s an e-book?

  • Star Trek, the individual and the community

    Several sessions with the guys upstairs on Monday, May 14, 2007 resulted in my talking to Gene Roddenberry, who provided some very interesting material about society and the individual and the process of inspiring society with new ways of seeing things. I had recently been watching Star Trek videos between re-reading Upton Sinclair’s Lanny Budd…

  • Hemingway on the effects of the Spanish Civil War

    For those who came in late – this is another in a series of conversations I have with people who have passed over to the other side. I have found that at least seemingly we can connect with anyone we have a reason to connect with. I call it The Cosmic Internet. The process has…

  • Hemingway on life

    In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway near the end has this dialogue between Brett and Jake: “You know it makes me feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.” “Yes.” “It’s sort of what we have instead of God.” “Some people have God,” I said. “Quite a lot.” “He never worked out very well…

  • An election meditation

    What you can do in the campaign’s final days

  • Election Day Thoughts

    Nothing in our life is more dualistic than the concept of elections. In any given race, only one person can win; at least one person, and often more, must lose. It’s hard to turn that situation into a win-win. I wonder, sometimes, that we get any cooperation at all out of our elected representatives, given…

  • President-elect Barack Obama’s remarks in Chicago

    “That’s the true genius of America: that America can change.”

  • Mr. Lincoln on our elections

    Wednesday, November 5, 2008 9:30 AM. Mr. Lincoln, a proud day. We owe it as much to you as to anyone. You owe it to yourselves. The angels of your better nature — as I said in my first inaugural address. It is America becoming ever more the symbol of the world, isn’t it? That’s how I…

  • America’s Sin

    A friend’s comment on the election sent me remembering a poem I wrote years ago that is, perhaps, not nearly as true today as it was then.

  • Marilyn Ferguson, New Age Author, Dies at 70

    Marilyn Ferguson, whose 1980 book “The Aquarian Conspiracy” became a bible of the New Age movement, died on Oct. 19 at her home in Banning, Calif.