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Some Call It “Fragrance”… November 21, 2020
Trying to Understand This Election: “What’s the Matter With Kansas?,” 2.0? November 18, 2020
“Joe Biden’s Magic” -or- What Can We Expect From the New President? November 14, 2020
Letter to a Dying Friend November 11, 2020
Post-Election Good News… November 7, 2020
A Non-pharmacologic Anti-Anxiety Election Day Presentation by the Biden Team November 3, 2020
THE CLOSING ARGUMENT…AND TIME-SENSITIVE VOTING INFORMATION October 30, 2020
“The Joe Biden Most Americans Don’t Get To See” October 28, 2020
This Huge Issue Is Also On The Ballot… October 24, 2020
In Recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (With a Big Assist From a Dynamo Fellow Blogger) October 21, 2020
OMG! What Would Albert Schweitzer Have Said?–A New Episode October 17, 2020
“Something Is Not Right Around the Court…” October 14, 2020
“BATTLE for the SOUL of the NATION” October 10, 2020
Expanding the Definition of “Pro-Life” October 7, 2020
Ready for “One Person, One Vote”? We’re Not That Far Off… October 3, 2020
THE TRUMPIAN AUDIT…WITH SOME POST-DEBATE COMMENTS September 30, 2020
Worried About a Trump Coup? Take a Deep Breath: You Have More Power Than You Think September 26, 2020
Here Are Two Tickets To A Concert; The Date Is… September 23, 2020
IN MEMORIAM: RUTH BADER GINSBURG–The Notorious RBG September 19, 2020
A Tale of Two Calamities September 16, 2020
My Mindfulness Recipe for Smoothie Shakes-While-Unshaken September 12, 2020
This Man Has a Plan to “Unpack” the Federal Courts September 9, 2020
The Choice September 5, 2020
Think Trump’s Not Moving Toward Total Autocracy? This International Analyst Knows the Signs Too Well… September 2, 2020
Will Sports Figures Help Us Break Through the Hatred? August 29, 2020
First, Let Me Apologize for My Lunkheadedness… August 26, 2020
BLOCKED! August 22, 2020
The ‘comma effect’ on bias and Black Lives… August 19, 2020
These Are the Election Watchers Watching Us (Maybe)! August 15, 2020
Why I See Kamala’s Racial Attack on Joe as a Positive Seminal Moment for Our Country August 12, 2020
The Presidential Polls Will Soon Be Tightening (Gasp!) August 8, 2020
Black Health Matters Too: The Role of Race in Life-and-Death Medical Decision-making August 5, 2020
A Doctor’s Mask Worn Awry Leads Me to Promising New COVID-19 Research August 1, 2020
Fighting Our “What If Trump Won’t Leave?” Paranoia July 29, 2020
A Mid-Pandemic, Anti-Panic, Slightly Manic Flight of…Oh, I Dunno July 25, 2020
Barr’s Army: The Slender Legal Reed for Overtaking American Cities July 22, 2020
In the Presence of John Lewis… July 18, 2020
After Dogs Detecting COVID-19, What’s Next? July 15, 2020
The Supreme Court Rulings Against The President: “Judicial Malpractice”? July 11, 2020
Two Important Lessons About Our Silence in the Presence of Racist Jokes July 8, 2020
How I Found My Inner Harpist On My Smartphone July 4, 2020
Policing Covid-19: Managing Risk During the Lockdown | Doctorate June 30, 2020
The Attorney General for the Person of the US Receives Scrutiny June 27, 2020
Lesson From the Woke Dentist–and Questions From Other Stories We Need to Keep Reconsidering… June 24, 2020
JUNETEENTH: CELEBRATING EMANCIPATION FROM SLAVERY June 19, 2020
Mindfulness and Trumpiness–plus a little something extra… June 17, 2020
Paging Dr. Dog! Another Weapon in the Battle Against COVID-19 June 13, 2020
Are We–at Last–Ready to Let the Sun Shine In? June 9, 2020
Another Acrostic: Joe Biden’s VP Choice? June 6, 2020
My Friend Responds to “You Broke It; You Fix It!” June 3, 2020
“You Broke It; You Fix It!” May 30, 2020
Here’s a Guy Who Really Made Good Use of His Time! May 27, 2020
On Watching Michelle Obama Becoming… May 24, 2020
Well, I Hadn’t Planned To Write About This Matter Again–And Certainly Not So Soon… May 20, 2020
What’s On My Menu? Annie Needs You… May 16, 2020
Dealing With My Anger In The Age of Trump And The Pandemic May 13, 2020
Frogs Do It, Bees Do It–Even Educated “We’s” Do It… May 9, 2020
The Allegations Against Biden: The Press Presses On… May 6, 2020
Why I Believe Joe Biden Did Not Commit Sexual Assault May 2, 2020
“My mind is a bad neighborhood that I try not to go into alone.” (Anne Lamott, Novelist) April 29, 2020
The President’s Daily Coronavirus Briefings–What Do You Think the Press Should Do? My Reassessment April 26, 2020
Why Are Women World Leaders Combating the Coronavirus Pandemic So Well–and What Does This Tell Us About Leadership? April 22, 2020
My Fraught Relationship With The Man-In-The-Box April 18, 2020
A Call to Action: Let’s Honor the Wisconsin Voters and Protect Our Democracy! April 15, 2020
Another Trip to the Lighter Side…and a Message of Hope April 11, 2020
The President’s Daily Coronavirus Briefings: What Do You Think the Press Should Do? April 8, 2020
Living Through a Pandemic: The Lighter Side April 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS RELIEF PACKAGE(S): A Questioning Acrostic April 1, 2020
Building Sand Castles: Then and Now March 28, 2020
Wherein My Personal Blogosphere Expands Via a Fun Exchange With a Super New Acquaintance March 25, 2020
More Notes From a COVID-19 Epicenter: Fighting This Thing Alone–Together March 21, 2020
How Bernie Sanders Can Rise From Politician to Statesman March 18, 2020
Notes From a COVID-19 Epicenter: Our Quarantine Begins March 16, 2020
Is There Anything Funny About the Coronavirus Pandemic? March 13, 2020
Post Super Tuesday: The Septuagenarian Scramble Begins March 7, 2020
Keeping Anxiety in Perspective March 4, 2020
Chaos in America…BUT… We Can End It! (A Near- Acrostic Poem for Our Times) February 28, 2020
Some Positive Thoughts…and Actions to Save the House of Representatives February 22, 2020
Help With A Critical Endeavor: Providing Meaningful Comfort to the Sick and Dying February 20, 2020
The Sun Shines on the Railways–and Thoughts About My Carbon BigFootprint February 15, 2020
Outside My Window… February 8, 2020
Here’s the Path for a Big Democratic Win in November February 5, 2020
We Need to Prevent the Democratic Party–and the U.S.–From Being “Berned…” January 31, 2020
Something There Is… January 30, 2020
The Huge Trump Opposition Research File on Bernie January 25, 2020
On Dr. King’s Birthday, We Must Remember: Environmental Justice Is Part of His Legacy January 20, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN IOWA: MY CHAT WITH TWO EXPERIENCED CAUCUS PARTICIPANTS January 18, 2020
The Gremlins Are Really After Me… January 11, 2020
A Substitute Rant– January 4, 2020
Don’t You Think the World Could Use a Little Anger Management? Here’s a Way That Just May Help… December 28, 2019
Reading My Friend Peter’s SNAFU Letter at Christmas Time December 21, 2019
OBFUS-GATE: An Exploration of Our National Crisis (Even Worse: It’s In Verse!) December 14, 2019
Have You Heard of Mrinalini Mukherjee? December 7, 2019
A Thanksgiving-ish Story December 1, 2019
My Watching the Impeachment Hearing Blues… November 24, 2019
And Now a Word From Our… November 17, 2019
How One Woman’s Breast Cancer Experience May Revolutionize Cancer Care November 10, 2019
The Drabble Liked My Dabbling! November 3, 2019
OMG! What Would Albert Schweitzer Have Said? October 27, 2019
Can “Love Thy Enemy” Be a Winning Political Strategy–as Well as a Healing Balm for a Divided People? October 20, 2019
Here’s Why This 2019 Nobel Prize Is Breathtaking… October 13, 2019
Doggone It! Where’s My Doggie? October 6, 2019
About Those Guns…This Time, Some Better News (Part 2 of 2) September 29, 2019
About Those Guns… September 22, 2019
My Presidential Nominee Wish List September 15, 2019
Beyond Music to Ritual: The Impact of Four Songs on America’s Psyche September 8, 2019
Quarks ‘n’ Genes (Some Subatomic, Electronic, and Molecular Musings) September 1, 2019
A Very Different Tumble Into the Weeds… August 26, 2019
The Democrats’ Debates Were Disappointing, and Yet… August 21, 2019
It’s Here, It’s Real, and We’ve Got to Talk About It Together August 19, 2019
The Limitations of Limits August 11, 2019
“They’re Doing It As We Sit Here…” July 29, 2019
I’ll Be Watching Mueller’s Congressional Testimony…I Hope You Will Be Too July 21, 2019
Where Are the Lights of Liberty? We Are Better Than This! July 14, 2019
A Cautionary Summer Tale July 8, 2019
What Is…? July 1, 2019
From Three Cookies to One–or None: How Do We Break Our Bad Habits? June 24, 2019
23&WE: The Democrats Debate (With apologies to Chaucer for imperfectly borrowing his rhyme scheme) June 17, 2019
Music to “Stretch Our Ears”: Beethoven, Beatles, Blues… June 9, 2019
My Journey From DNA Test Skeptic to Participant June 3, 2019
How Do We Talk About Race in America? An Unfortunate Update… May 27, 2019
“I Thought of Her as Leonardo da Vinci’s Descendant” May 20, 2019
I’M SO PLEASED TO HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE VERSATILE BLOGGER AWARD May 15, 2019
‘Tis a Mystery: I Have Been Nominated for the Mystery Blogger Award May 13, 2019
My “Freeze” Moment May 5, 2019
Only Connect! April 28, 2019
Respect Your Mother… April 22, 2019
How Do We Avoid the Pitchforks and Achieve Greater Economic Equality? April 15, 2019
Whither the Mueller Report? April 8, 2019
Wherein I Tumble Into the Weeds Yet Again… April 1, 2019
Can I Really Get My Arms Around This Animal? March 25, 2019
Wanna Hear About My Colonoscopy? March 18, 2019
Then, a 20% Chance; Now… March 11, 2019
Getting Into the Weeds of the Marijuana Debate March 4, 2019
The Constitution: Can It Help Us “Replace the Jeering With Productive Conversation”? February 25, 2019
Thoughts Engendered by Pajamas With Feet February 17, 2019
2020 Foresight: Looking Beyond Our Dysfunctional Government February 4, 2019
How Do You Train a Butterfly? The Same Way You Train an Orthopedic Surgeon! January 20, 2019
How Do We Talk About Race in America? A Serendipitous Part 3 January 7, 2019
Zen and the Art of Vacuuming: A Near-Fable December 16, 2018
Navigating “The Wild West” Marketplace of Consumer Genetic Testing–and Other Needed Information About Our DNA December 10, 2018
How Do We Talk About Race in America? Meet Doug Glanville (Part 2 of 2) December 2, 2018
How Do We Talk About Race in America? (Part 1 of 2) November 18, 2018
OK. The Dems Won the House. Now What? November 11, 2018
The Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher: Vote to Repudiate Violence and Find Common Ground October 31, 2018
“We Deserve Better”: Two Important Messages About Gun Violence (Updated) October 28, 2018
RX for Schoolkids: Open Your Mouth and Say “Ommmmm…” October 21, 2018
Why You and I Need to Care About Phytoplankton–and What We Can Do About Them October 5, 2018
The Mindfulness Community Enters the Political Fray! September 28, 2018
Practicing Optimism in a Crappy World September 14, 2018

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