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Posted by on Aug 6, 2025 in Blog | 4 comments

My Public Announcement (Long Post)

 

MY PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT (LONG POST)

Forgive the self-indulgence which follows. I need to address a few things and announce a few changes.

I’ve taken a break recently from my usual public activism. Admittedly, right now is the wrong time to NOT engage in advocacy and current affairs. Call this pause a serious abdication of citizen responsibility. Common decency demands more of us–all of us. Decent people must speak out. The dangers we face are real. The consequences of silence and indifference are self-evident, and likely about to worsen.

During my sabbatical, I resisted the daily urge to post on Facebook. Moreover, I ceased meaningful social media exchanges. I also suspended my own personal writings at my website and sidelined my contributions to online content sites that regularly publish my work which gives much wider attention to my ideas . I also limited my own social engagements–aside from usual home life. This inactivity wasn’t born out of any resentment or to make a protest. It wasn’t even planned. It just happened.

What created this diaspora of detachment?

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Posted by on Mar 30, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

The Other Side of Perspective

 

 

THE OTHER SIDE

I think it’s important to look back on all of our lives and think of the wonderful people who changed us, and taught us, and gave us extraordinary perspectives, almost entirely for the better. This is purely a guess, but I suspect many of us will admit the most surprising benefits and broader horizons were often, not from those shallow spaces we grew up with or would have expected, but from people and places far away that we did not expect.

In 1994, I walked into the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC  thinking I had no shot at a job opening for a writer-editor position working for a country I really didn’t know that much about.

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Posted by on Feb 26, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

Every Picture Tells a Story: North Dallas (1980)

 

 

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
NORTH DALLAS (1980)

Few people know, or will remember, the Dallas Cowboys Headquarters and ticket office used to be located in the very same building as the famed Playboy Club. A United Artists movie theater was also adjacent to the main building. I was lucky enough to visit them all. In 1976, I remember my dad taking me to sneak preview at the UA Cine….a new movie directed and written and starring an unknown actor named Sylvester Stallone. The title was Rocky. Saw lots of other great movies there, too.

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Posted by on Feb 12, 2025 in Blog | 2 comments

Who Else Yells at the TV ?

 

 

WHO ELSE YELLS AT THE TV?

Recently, Ken Kubey posted here on Facebook that he watches sporting events and occasionally yells at the television. I confessed that I also do this. I expect many of you sometimes yell at the TV, too.

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