Essay Neon Gods On a cold February day in 1964, an unknown musician named Paul Simon penned the words to a song that would initially be a commercial failure and lead to ridicule
Essay We're Not Lost Before the days of pervasive GPS, when driving to new destinations I would often get lost. It wasn’t that I had a poor sense of direction, rather, my stubbornness
Essay Let's Make a Deal Let’s Make a Deal was a popular game show when I was young. While the show never captured my interest, I was inspired by contestants willing to risk everything
Essay The Toothpaste Deception Do you brush your teeth in the morning? How about when you go to sleep at night? Well, if you’re like most of the world, you partake of the
Essay Rosetta Stone for the Mind I studied French for a few years in high-school. At first the language seemed so strange. The words, and particularly the sounds, were quite difficult to understand and reproduce. But
Essay Shoreline of Ignorance As kids we ask "why" for just about everything. Why does the sun rise? Because the earth rotates. Why does the earth rotate? Because it has always been spinning. Why
Essay No Static At All I grew up when the only option for music outside my sparse album collection was listening to the radio. Not satellite radio with hundreds of stylistic choices - rather, just
Essay This Makes No Sense A newspaper is better than a magazine. A seashore is a better place than a street. At first, it is better to run than to walk. You may have to
Essay You Are The Last To Know Let's do a little experiment. Place your left hand on your lap. Let it lie still there for a moment. Then, whenever you are ready, raise your hand off your
Essay Holy Mirrors When I was young I often wondered why mirrors seemed to flip left and right but not up and down. As I would move my right hand, the mirror depicted
Essay What’s in it for me? It’s unsettling to consider how many of our thoughts are centered on our own self-interest. The clothes we wear, the words we speak, the food we eat, and nearly
Essay The way we see the problem is the problem What are the problems we have in life? Our body is letting us down - perhaps through aging or illness or injury. Finances not where we’d like them to