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GF 3 14 25 A Student of Non-Traditional Learning
“ The greatest teacher, failure is. We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters .” ― Yoda I am no Yoda, but I am...

Mar 74 min read
Gratitude Friday 3 7 25 Surviving Chaos: The Who at JFK Stadium 1982
I grew up in the golden age of rock music. We all know these bands, even as the musicians are either long gone or in their geriatric...


Feb 285 min read
Gratitude Friday 2-28-2025 – Show Me Revisited
This is a repost with additional thoughts about a dog we lost 25 months ago, nearly to the day. I look at the words in the preceding...


Feb 214 min read
Gratitude Friday 2 21 25 Dogs
I love dogs. I think dogs are better humans than most humans, no intended slight to any of my hominoid readers. Gratitude Friday is my...


Feb 144 min read
Gratitude Friday 02 14 25 A Mean Self-Centered Society or a Giving and Empathetic One
It is Valentines Day, the day of love. One of the things I think about is who we are as a nation. Are we a mean and self-centered society...


Feb 74 min read
Gratitude Friday 02 07 25 The British Invasion
On this day in 1964, the Beatles landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Pan Am Flight 101 from London Heathrow. I found a...


Jan 313 min read
Gratitude Friday 1 31 25 Guy Stern and the Ritchie Boys, Jewish Immigrant Heroes of WWII
“We were fighting an American war, and we were also fighting an intensely personal war. We were in that war with every inch of our...


Jan 244 min read
Gratitude Friday 1 24 25 Alive, by the Blink of an Eye
“ To survive you need to learn to hold contradictory things in your head at the same time. I am going to die; I am going to live. There...


Jan 173 min read
Gratitude Friday 01 17 25 A.A. Milne Day
Winne the Pooh was one of the series of books I learned to read from as a child. I can recall my mom and dad reading to me at bedtime...


Jan 104 min read
Gratitude Friday 1 10 25 - Stage Not Age
This is a big year for me and for all in my cohort born at the midpoint of the 1960s. We are now or rapidly approaching the big 6 0....