politics. sometimes with a capital P. but not always.
President Obama runs a big shop. He has thousands of employees under his charge. We often think about him in the ‘leader of the free world’ category but for the purpose of this exercise, I’d like you to think of him as an employer. What kind of employer should the President be? What kind of [...]
This is Leonard Pitts. He’s a syndicated columnist. I think he is terrific. I would like you to read the column he wrote that appeared around the country this morning. For several reasons: 1) He writes about an unfathomable scenario that is one of my worst nightmares. 2) The case he is highlighting is being [...]
I’ve mentioned before that I write for www.nj.com/parenting. It’s the parenting blog of The Newark Star Ledger. This morning I wrote about communicating with your parents. “My mom and I speak every morning between 8 and 8:30. We came up with the idea of talking daily after a friend of hers fell in her apartment [...]
I believe I have mentioned that I am a recent Facebook convert. In the last week, “25 Random Things” has taken off virally. It’s a very simple premise. Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people [...]
I have a lot of strong feelings about Ted Haggard. I am clear that men like Haggard fan the flames of intolerance. I wrote about those feelings last week. Over the weekend I had the chance to see the new HBO documentary, The Trials of Ted Haggard. I worried that the documentary would be a [...]