2024

 

Getting It

 

A Few Lessons Learned

 

2023

 

Say Again ! How Many Stars ?

 

The Woman Who Shared My Life

 

Courage Of Our Convictions

 

Keeping The Faith

 

Conditioning The Mind Of The Nation

 

A Surfeit Of Victims

 

The Child Amongst Us

 

Personal Reflections About
Indulgence And Its Benefactors

 

What’s Your Worldview ?

 

Reflections On Freedom

 

A Tribute To Nancy: In God’s Good Time

 

I Jes’ Wanna Be Loved . . .

 

What I’ve Learned

 

To Be An Adult: Two Views

 

What Do You Think ?

 

An Elder Ponders What Shall Not Perish

 

A Look At Mystery

 

Is Truth Old-Fashioned ?

 

2022

 

Memories Of Father

 

The Incomplete Life

 

A Small, Resounding Moment

 

It’s A Wonder-Filled Life

 

So . . . Where Are We Headed Now ?

 

What Scares You ?

 

Willy And The Little Ones: Reminders Of Gratitude

 

Two Walls And A Friend

 

How Long Can We Wait ?

 

An Elder’s Ode To Mystery

 

An Elder Ponders Dobbs

 

Oddments Of Elderhood

 

Toxic Masculinity: An Elder Ponders

 

To Madeline - With My Thanks

 

Why I Am A Catholic: A Brief Reflection

 

Roe v Children

 

Dearest Nancy Remembered

 

What Have We Learned ?

 

It Can Happen Here

 

Which Way Shall We Go

 

You’re A Poet, But You Don’t Know It...

 

To  Touch  The  Face  Of  God

 

2021

 

Dreaming  Of  Reality

 

Losing  Joe:   A  Personal  Tribute

 

Christmas With The Young and Arrested

 

Are  We  Listening To  History ?

 

America At Risk: Where Shall We Find Truth

 

We  Always  Have Time

 

When  Good  Intentions  Fade,
What  Then ??

 

-  Part One  -
Systemic  Racism?  A  Statement  For  My  America

 

The Great Unmasking

 

A  Personal  View:  Where  Has  My  America  Gone ?

 

Beyond Suffering

 

Nancy:  The  Simple  Dignity  Of  Loving

 

An  Easter  Reminder

 

In  Regard  To  Our  Pets

 

America  At  Risk

 

Asking  The  Unanswered

 

2020

 

At  War  With  Ourselves:
Before  Covid  And  Beyond

 

I Speak For The Child … And For Her Mother
An Elder’s Personal Reflection

 

I  Speak  For  The  Child
Part  Two

 

I  Speak  For  The  Child
Part  One  Of  Two

 

How  Shall  We  Love  Our  Children ?

 

An Elder Ponders Beauty

 

Our Deepest Need

 

America  In  Search  Of  It’s  Self

 

Another  Man  Died  For  Me: In  Praise  Of  America

 

Prejudice, Violence And Our Precarious Future

 

Reflections  On  America  In  Moral  Disarray: Beyond  Angry  Rhetoric

 

Some  Musings  On Riotous  Disarray  And  Human  Nature

 

Honoring  Truth,  Wisdom’s  Price

 

Remembrance:  Loving   Nancy

 

An  Easter  Reminder

 

Reflections On That Nasty Bug

 

No  One  Tells  Me  What  To  Do  !!

 

Choosing  Legacy:  For  WhatShall  I  Be  Remembered

 

Mystery And Wisdom: Life’s Abiding Realities

 

Denial And Its Corollaries: America’s  Flourishing  Addiction

 

2019

 

The Promptings Of Love

 

Sentio, Ergo Sum: Maturity’s Elusive Path

 

Our Human Bonds: The Man By The Side The Road

 

An  Elder’s  Concern  For  Culture  Corrupted

 

Reflections On The Death Of A Friend

 

The Right To Choose ….. What?

 

Through  Decades  Past

 

Beyond Cliché … A Man For All Seasons

 

Nancy:  Goodness  Remembered

 

Belief And Its Contrarians: Walking Out Of Darkness

 

The Green  New  Deal:  Myths  and  Migraines

 

Aging Is Not For The Faint-Hearted

 

To  Love  Our  Children

 

BEING PATIENT

 

My Father’s Blessed Shadow

 

For  The  Sake  Of  Our  Children

 

2018

Christmas And Family

 

Starstuff: May Wonder Never Cease …

 

Knowing Beyond Knowledge:

 

Greater  Love  Than  This

 

On The Border

 

Is Performance Rage Working?

 

Beneath The Label:

 

Beyond The Kavanaugh Event:

 

Warsaw  and  Auschwitz:

 

The  Gift  Of   Mothers

 

Yes, Evil Is Still Around

 

Failed  Leaders

 

Unavoidable  Facts

 

How My Garden Does Grow

 

The Man and His Son

 

In  Search  of  Happiness

 

Do  I  Have  Humility?

 

Beyond Loss:

 

In Sickness and In Health:

 

The Language Of The Soul

 

Faith: The Promise And The Price

 

Kids Who Kill:

 

The Beguiling Illusion of Empowerment

 

I’m Spiritual But Not Religious

 

The Lesser Angels Of Our Nature

 

An Elder Ponders The Question:

 

Beyond Doubting:

 

Freedom From Religion:

 

Contemplating the Number 321,384

 

2017

An Elder’s Christmas Reverie

On Loneliness and Loving

 

An Elder’s Grateful Meditation On His Wife’s Birthday

 

Christmas Memories With The Young and Arrested

 

An Elder Looks At Feeling Good

 

An Elder’s Cautionary

 

An Elder's Alarm

 

An Elder’s Lament:

 

An Elder’s Take:

 

An Elder’s Belief

 

An Elder’s Voice: Part Two

 

An Elder’s Voice: Part One

 

Doing Good Is Costly… But Free…

 

THE PRICE WE PAY FOR THE PRICELESS

 

I Can’t Help But Wonder…

 

Morals, Anyone . . .

 

Thou Shalt Indeed Make Judgments

 

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