Having a website and writing regularly on my “personal” website is sort of a therapy for me to be honest. I am not attempting to be right about anything but rather am thinking aloud on paper. People are perfectly free to disagree with me, assuming anyone ever reads what I…

The following is my “opinion” about the present case of impeachment. The present case for impeaching the President is a very hot topic of debate, and for me I think people aren’t really aware of why it is very important to impeach and remove this president from office. I have…

I met Enrico di Giuseppe for the first time at Julliard in a lesson that I think Sherri Phelps set up for me back just before I left for Zurich back in the Spring of 1987 sometime. Not living in New York City, or close to it and the not…

I’ve always loved the idea of a cabin in the woods. It is actually a winter thing for me. In the summer, I am not such a fan of the woods because being from the southeastern United States, or really anywhere east of the Mississippi River for that matter, the…

It is Monday morning and I am completely exhausted and utterly disgruntled about this past weekend and why? Because I failed to actually enjoy parts of it and the way I reacted to things this weekend is a symptom of a great problem: The inability to control my mind. I…

Sometimes accumulating stuff catches up with you and when it does it is high time to do a “spring cleaning.” This may sound easy, but it isn’t. Because the most important part of spring cleaning is minimizing the things you have to clean in the first place. The fewer “things”…

I first got the idea of moving to Europe when I went on a summer program to Bregenz, Austria with a program from my university back in 1982. I had taken a year of German, and was looking forward to seeing what Europe was all about and the prospect of…

I came to the back of the store and before me was a long counter backed with a long rack and as I looked at that I realized that this represented a large part of the retail business of the store I was in and that this store’s name wasn’t…

Falsehood: The Path that Leads to the Labyrinth of Sin My interpretation of the Genesis metaphor about the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Knowledge, the Forbidden Fruit, the Serpent, and the end of the relationship that a human being can have with God and residence in Heaven is really…

The goal of life is to achieve happiness. I believe most people would agree with this hypothesis. However, to live in a state of happiness there are some elements that have to be fulfilled and some life disciplines that must be practiced in order to achieve it. Happiness is like…