I really love BallotPedia for researching who gets my vote. It is hard to know cast your vote – I had more than 50 candidates in 18 contested races. I was helping my sister-in-law research the Fulton County School Board District 2 seat (I’m in District 7 and voted for Michelle Morancle despite having similar …
Today marks one year from the last day I went to work in an office. Like most people, it has been a weird year. Starting with a stripped-bare produce section at Aldi (video below ) It has, however, been a better year than the previous one. The year 2019 was my worst year yet. And …
I am very intrigued with physics. I deeply admire people who have the patience and skill to explain physics to me (rest in peace, Stephen Hawking). With limited time to research wild ideas, (aka unencumbered by the thought process…) I still wonder how creation happened. In the Big Bang, all that we know of the …
Some folks may accuse me of being “politically correct,” and yet, I insist that how we discuss issues reveals and shapes how we perceive these issues. Case in point today: Lactose “intolerance” I’m guessing that some European-descent person came up with this label. On a Google Image Search for “lactose intolerance,” I received some diagrams …
I now understand why many people have religious experiences during a total solar eclipse. My almost-five son and I trekked up to the Tennessee/North Carolina border, camped in the Tellico River area. Plan “A” was to watch in a wonderful spot known as Whigg Meadow. After seeing the enormous crowds and multitudes of cars parked …
We never truly win without love within. A victory achieved with might or hate is a short-lived, shallow victory. Love is a vital element of our future, and seems to be in short supply in our current divisiveness. Love is not just something that happens when you are attracted to someone. When we come from a …
Conflicts present a chance to grow… to build relationships…. John Lederach1 teaches: Conflict transformation is to envision and respond to the ebb and flow of social conflict as life-giving opportunities for creating constructive change processes that reduce violence, increase justice in direct interaction and social structures, and respond to real-life problems in human …
How can you say you Love your country if you have disdain for a large portion of your fellow citizens? How can we disagree with someone’s ideas or beliefs without hating who they are as a fellow human being? And what do we do about the disagreements? What if we feel threatened by the political …
During the next four years, something will happen that will make Donald Trump look as though he let down the American people. It happened to President Obama, such as Benghazi, the IRS Tea Party investigations, and the NSA surveillance revelations. There have also been senior administration officials who misbehaved in office. Such incidents occur in …
Sometimes, in the midst of partisan attacks, you can’t believe that anyone could support the “other” side. How could they support {the other candidate}??? The real question is, have you *really* tried to understand what the “other” side fears? What are their concerns? How have they lost under the present system? There have been many lies …