Writings

A house divided needs new math
Are you good at math? Some people are absolute whizzes when it comes to numbers, and I’m fascinated by that. Once I watched as my head tennis pro (I was the general manager of an athletic club) negotiated his pay package with the club’s owner. The tennis pro, who was

Good for you
I was telling some friends about our plan for Do Good Talks, launching next spring. They liked the idea, but someone wondered whether there would be enough “good” to talk about. Good question! A few hours later I was talking with another friend. The cost of living came up, and

Could the new new thing be something really old?
Earlier this week I spoke at the funeral service of a good friend. He had grown up as a “PK” — a preacher’s kid — in the San Francisco Bay area. Since his dad was a preacher, David went to church. So did his siblings. When David was in high

The Do Good U driving school is now in session
I grew up in a town of around 6,000 people. It was the biggest town for about 25 or 30 miles, making ours a rural area. All of the paved roads for many miles were two lanes. That means, for you city folks, one lane in each direction. Unpaved roads

Art imitates life. Or is it the other way around?
In spite of what some have said, I do not have a television just so I can watch golf. Sometimes I like to relax with a scripted TV series. Let me see if I can list some things that add to the likelihood that I’ll watch. Fun, well written, not

What everyone can learn from The Longest Day of Golf
Golf? Who can learn anything from golf? Mark Twain famously said that golf was “a good walk spoiled.” Some say the game is called “golf” because all the other four letter words were taken. But there is much to recommend it, and no one did that with more humor than

Why we should remember
If you’ve flown on a commercial airline in the last couple of decades, you’ve heard these words: “May I have your attention, please?” For many passengers, the answer appears to be “No.” Newer flyers usually do pay attention. Those who have flown often, like me, watch to see how well

The liberalism dilemma
I was already planning to write on the topic of tolerance. Then my friend Chuck sent me an article by a writer we both like, and voila!, my article came into focus. A few decades ago Chuck and I were both on staff at a small college. He was older

Sherlock Holmes and God: they both see things we don’t
Detective stories, whether in books or on TV or in a movie, attract a lot of us. I think part of the reason is because we love puzzles, and a good mystery or detective story is a delightful kind of puzzle. We try to figure out what the lead character

A Dangerous Change
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” So they say, but what does it mean? You could google it, of course, but no need. I’ll explain with some illustrations, including “google it.” Google, as you know, is the proprietary name of a search engine. It was a

Has the Search for Truth Been Abandoned?
There once was a man — a long, long time ago — named Diogenes. There could have been more than one, as I think of it, but the Diogenes (di-ah’-jin-eze) we remember lived around 300 to 400 years before Christ. He was witty, wise, and a great teacher. For much
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