Monthly Archives: April 2017

The election story always gets written to appear the Candidates are the bold Agents of Change..Hillary lost….Trump won…and the aftermath presumes the winner won because of what he and his campaign did…and the loser lost because she did not do … Continue reading →

I can only claim my right to be right so long as I am proven right. Right? If I claim to be right and am proven to be I wrong, I thereby lose my right to be right… though canon … Continue reading →

Testing a new Coaching model with folks- that tries to connect up “What’s the matter?” with “What Matters.” or to say it in another way, to map where we place our attention, and then comparing that to what we are … Continue reading →

“For Israel and Palestine, or Republicans and Democrats or Jews and Gentiles, I think there are more than just two narratives because in narrative terms, there are never just two sides to any story, that a story if it is … Continue reading →

If ever you wanted proof about the power of a story, take a closer look at the “Pastor Jones burning the Koran” saga playing out before us. This morning, President  Obama weighed in too “Please Pastor No.”  He was  only … Continue reading →

The Middle Peace Talks begin again!Ho Hum seems to be the headline it is getting here in Washington. Time magazine comes out with a daisy chain  Star of David cover with the provocation-”Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace.” and its … Continue reading →

‘Snowed Under” is a familiar excuse we all use to say ‘We are Sooooo busy.’ But this past week in Washington DC, we are indeed “snowed under” and it means the very opposite. Unless we are driving a snow plough … Continue reading →

Tiger Woods apologizing for not being a virtuous golfer is totally implausible. but let me explain. Try this on for implausible.Imagine if Mother Teresa was  little known to be a fair golfer. Imagine that she lost the Sisters of Charity … Continue reading →

They used to say, ‘One swallow doesn’t make a summer,’ but perhaps we need to revise that to say that ‘three swallows definitely does’, because three totally disconnected outbursts by people in the public eye losing their cool has been … Continue reading →

A year into the Clinton Presidency, the pundits were already writing the obituary. After the Travelgate and the Health Care fiascoes, ‘this is a one term President,’ they said.  Clinton, if we recall, was elected on a similar wave of … Continue reading →