by Morning Reflections | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Life is full of close calls.I’m reminded of that when my family wades into one of those “Remember when…?” conversations that inevitably dredges up childhood near-misses.There was the day, for example, when I got too close to the neighbor’s burning brush pile while...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Sunbeams over clouds In 1963, as a young, newly minted sociologist, Rodney Stark was given the chance of a lifetime. On behalf of the Survey Research Center of the University of California-Berkeley, he was granted the privilege of designing the first-ever major...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Frankly, this song scares me to death.”That’s what the late folk rocker Harry Chapin said about Cat’s in the Cradle (1974), his only song that ever went to No. 1 on the charts.The song tells a multi-generational story of a father who is too busy to spend time with...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
The truth is out there.That was the mantra of The X-Files, the wildly popular 1990s TV series in which a pair of FBI investigators – skeptical Dana Sculley and true believer Fox Mulder – explored a vast array of paranormal phenomena, ranging from werewolves to...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
“You’re fired.”Those are two of the hardest words one can ever hear.There’s a former reality show star who happened to be elected to high public office who seems to speak them with unusual enthusiasm. But if you’ve ever been on the receiving...
