It can live inside us, buried deep in the depths of our soul, that seed that resides within us all. Covered by the richness of our...

Take a word.             Examine it from every perspective.                         Pull it apart.                         Put it back...

Knowing oneself is the beginning, the first step, toward wisdom. Understanding one’s joy, one’s sorrow, one’s gifts, and one’s needs....

Losing Our Traditions   Sitting around the kitchen table, shucking corn, shelling peas, and telling tales. Remember when Grandad got the...

I’m Just A Flag-Waiving American…   …but which flag am I waving?   Old Glory, with its stars and stripes, symbol of an ever-changing...

Metamorphoses   Forms altered into new bodies—or perhaps, not altered but, for the first time, seen in their entirety. Wiped clean of...

I AM A MAN   “I AM A MAN,” read the sing carried by the Memphis sanitation workers.   A statement of the obvious. These were men, with...

For over twenty-five years, I represented my country—to other countries, at trade talks, in the United Nations. During that time, I...