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I love history. Knowing where we came from and how we got here is important. “Real” history—not the fairy-tale version we seem to prefer—tea...

Once upon a time in a kingdom far away, there lived a king of great wisdom . Each day the king would hold court and hear the pleas of his p...

Previously, I published a book, The Non-Identity Crisis—The crisis that endangers our worl d. The topic of the book concerns a common mis...

There's a hole in our bucket I taught our daughter economics, at an early age. And my teaching device was an old bucket. I punched ...

Seeing through the fog of delusion. “Look straight ahead. What’s there? If you see it as it is, you will never err.” These were the wor...

“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” —Mark Twain In prior times deception was the exception (or so it seemed). Now it appears to have b...

Look in a mirror, and what do you see? You see your face looking back at you. You don’t delude yourself with the notion that a reflectio...

By now you see the difference between a thought about things and the reality of things. One is abstract and the other isn’t, and the “isn’t...

When you plunge into Buddhist waters you’ll find yourself in a sea of strange language and foreign concepts. You almost need a codebook to ...

The sky of mind If you’ve been reading my blog, more than likely you’ve come to realize that I’m an outlier. I don’t fit the ordinary c...

All of us eventually become creatures of habit and after the passage of time are lulled asleep into a state of blindness based on an assum...

The Scottish poet Robert Burns coined the phrase, “Ahh, to see ourselves as others see us...” and this way of seeing is indeed valuable...

An acknowledged cultural tradition is to dress for the occasion. We might wear our comfy and tattered clothing while lounging about the hous...