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(Humorous) Lessons of Life from Tee Offs to Fairways
I’m not a lover of golf; at best a friend, and these days a mere acquaintance. Up until 2000, however, I played maybe once a month, and that, because it was my dad’s game of choice. When I began the...
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White Supremacy, Black Experience: A Lesson In Listening
“Americans make choices constantly as they try to navigate through the racial landscape. And their first choice is how they listen. Blacks and whites do not listen well to one another. They infer,...
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A First Act of Life Was Learning To Walk | Why Have We Forgotten How?
I was Born To Run. At five years of age I was The Flash. Like the gingerbread man who ran away from the farmer’s wife, I recall breaking free from the confinement of a nurse’s home office in Nyeri,...
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Leadership | Of Donkeys and People
“One night it’s a donkey, another night it’s a person!” So matter-of-factly stated an Afrikaner police officer to a colleague of mine, one 1990’s midnight in a North West Province, South African town....
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10 Statements That Shaped My Life | Perhaps They Can Yours, Too
Julian Fellowes’ superb historical piece drama, Downton Abbey, is chock-full of pearls of wisdom if you listen closely. A Season 4 episode has Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith) telling young Tom Branson...
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Hurtful Charity | A New Year’s Appeal To The Kind-Hearted and Well-To-Do
You’ve likely heard the adage, Give till it hurts, yet it’s unlikely you’re aware just how hurtful those acts of giving can be. I’m not referring to charity of international aid–nation to nation...
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Prejudice & Racism | Sometimes Unconscious, Always Unconscionable
No one likes to admit to or think of oneself as prejudicial or racist. There is no such thing as prejudice, racism or bigotry. They are mere fabrications of an elite and liberal media! At least this is...
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Word Choice | The Power to Shape Attitudes and Entrench Stereotypes
Coffee shops are somewhat like water troughs. People come in parched and desperate for the black, sometimes sweet, yet always caffeinated rush, but also to shoulder up alongside the regulars, say...
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Ride The Hashtag -or- Live To Serve?
This blog is not about on-line shopping or social media, although I begin there for introductory purposes. Similar to Wal-Mart, most people either love or hate Amazon.com. I “love” Amazon, although I...
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The Power & Gift of Acknowledgement | Inspiring a Child To Walk
Two brief stories, after which I’ll tell you my “secret” to getting a young child to walk. Story #1 — Yesterday, during my weekly volunteer work at Austin State Hospital (ASH) I was making my round of...
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Secondary Fidelity | The Risk & Reality of Living Apart
The Context: Five years ago I upset a sweet, old lady; the grandmotherly type, who hugs and kisses on little children irrespective of whether they have been good or bad, and who would whip up a meal...
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Speak the Silent Cries of the Innocent & of the Perpetrators
An unsettling consciousness of the contrast of my life in Austin with both the victims and perpetrators of violence at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall induced a restless sleep last night. I went to sleep...
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4 Life Takeaways from “We Bought A Zoo”
If you can overlook that the actual zoo, Dartmoor Zoological Park, is in England instead of Southern California, as well as the fact that Matt Damon, aka Jason Bourne, is simply a widower with two...
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Infamous Dates | A Personal Reflection on 9/11
*I invite you to share your remembrances of any infamous date under “Leave a Reply.” Mind numbing transformations of life and ways of living occur in the briefest and most unexpected of moments. . . ....
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Ride A Hound, Discover E-Cigarettes & Connect With The (real) World
North America, even the entire world might be a kinder, more equitable and empathetic place if elected officials were required to ride public transport on a semi-frequent basis. It wouldn’t do the rest...
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“I’m White and He’s Black!”
Growing up in then recent post-colonial Kenya, I don’t recall when, if ever, race consciousness hit me. My earliest recollections are a blended hue of white, black and brown. Kikuyu herdsmen, young...
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Our Pieces of Pie in the Sky | Part 3 of 3
This is the final blog in a series of three originally titled “Why Kick a Man When He’s Down? | Smoking, Sin, Shaming and Salvation.” Some delicious childhood memories of mine are of pies, especially...
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Why Kick a Man When He’s Down? | Smoking, Sin, Shaming and Salvation – Part 2
For those of you a-religious, or nominally so, this blog’s content might seem like a world “far, far away, in a distant galaxy.” If not relevant to you, it might at least be entertaining. In “Part 1” I...
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It Seldom Is What It Seems
Meryl Streep “had a farm in Africa.” In the third-grade, I had a friend in Africa. I don’t remember much about him. And, it’s probably good we didn’t grow up together. For in that short span of a year,...
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Saying Hello To Life Begins By Saying Hello To Strangers
This blog’s heading is indebted to children’s singer and songwriter, Eddie Coker, and his song “Say Hello,” a line of which is, “And that’s how we say hello to life, forever – together everybody now...
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