Connective Visions

There is no holiday from the headache of running into ignorance.

The Russian spy story of 2010 reminds us of how critical a role we have played in each other’s lives.

Summer vacations can also be ventures away from habit – especially when it comes to the U.S. media and the discussions they generate.

Your own thoughts, emotional habits, and actions in the past have been the primary focus of creating your current experience in the world. And every time you react to another person or thing with a particular set of thoughts or emotions, you’re deepening a tendency to see a world based on those types of projections…. [...]

As I logged off from my home page last night, one of the last headlines to catch my eye via my Yahoo! feed was “Music Mogul Cowell Backs Tories.” Well, there. That should solve everything, right? It was enough to send me to bed, I assure you. My friends in Great Britain, you have my [...]

Although the source was a U.S. one and ultimately deserves the credit, my kudos to Norway for bringing me my own national news before the standard channels here did. Last night, my first awareness that the House had passed the health-care reform bill came from the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet – which I was not visiting [...]

My father finished his midday news viewing today and announced, “They say it’s going to rain.” As it was pouring buckets outside, I couldn’t argue with them, and I said so. He frowned and said, “Yes, but I didn’t turn on the TV to find that out. I want to know when it’s going to [...]

This weekend, I had two occasions to encounter the topic of envy. When that much envy surfaces, it seems time to give it another look – especially when both episodes have, for me, a component of delight, which is not the noticeable offspring of envy. What Is Envy, Really? The first occasion came when friends [...]

Note: Having read about 50 articles on how to write blog headlines for search engine optimization (SEO) and return on investment (ROI), my considered decision was to go with this one, which is highly unlikely to satisfy anyone with an MBA. It is a consciously passive-aggressive move on my part as a writer, the point [...]

The end of February is giving rise to a kind of media, climatic, and geographical mass effect. The 16th day of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics came on the heels of another Northeast U.S. snowstorm (the third of the month, but in Philadelphia, happily, the least bothersome) and on the day of the seventh-largest earthquake in [...]