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6 Words – They Might Change Your Perspective on Mental Illness
Mental health is a popular, yet mostly negative current news topic. It has piggybacked on the national gun control controversy at least as far back as former Senator Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting, and...
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Out of the Mouth of Babes
Early 2008 my wife, Ana Marie, flew from Johannesburg to Durban, South Africa with our eldest daughter Elizabeth. The purpose being to celebrate/commemorate Elizabeth’s completion of high school....
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MOCO & MOCA – what are you talking about, Scott?!
NO, this blog is not about snot (“moco” in Spanish), or about Multimedia Over Coax Alliance ethernet bridges (MoCA). Rather, it’s an appeal for change: As individuals, groups, communities, societies,...
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3 Benefits of House Cleaning for Children’s Development
Preface: I admit this blog is not my hippest or masculine of topics, yet last week my wife completed a 3-year long MSN program at UT-Austin. During this period I assumed most management...
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Numbers | Our (misplaced) Measure of Success
Regrettably, quantifying has become the standard, all-in-all measurement for defining success and identity. Quantifying is a global practice, yes, but distinctly North American. Numbers are thought...
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The Devolution of Children’s Development | A Call for (healthy) Boredom
Women’s rights have rightfully progressed since the days and era when even cigarette brands, like Virginia Slims, based their marketing on a then male-dominant social context; popularizing the slogan,...
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Consigned to Work for a Young American Family, a MuVenda Woman’s Enduring Gift
Allow me to tell you about Selinah Mahamba of Tshitavha/Sambandou; a village 30-minutes drive north of Thohoyandou/Sibasa, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Vho Selinah with our first-born, Daniel....
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Grandparents | Person and Place Specialness
When it comes to a grandparent or great-grandparent, memories of person are inseparable from place. My three younger daughters and I returned yesterday from a quick, 3-night trip to El Paso, where we...
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Fate or Providence | How To Interpret Life’s Misfortunes?
This blog is about the mystery or wonderment of life’s TIMING. Several friends of mine are avowed atheists, which, truthfully, draws me to them versus detracts. Why? I appreciate their candor. To me...
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Two Words Affecting How People Different Are Viewed and Treated | God and...
Among “Christian America,” a person’s understanding of who God is, in particular, but also what salvation is influences the way s/he views and interacts with the world and its diversity of peoples,...
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Why Learn A Foreign Language?
Want to see millions of North Americans experience apoplexy (incapacity or speechlessness caused by extreme anger)? Insist they become fully conversant in a foreign language! This is ironical because...
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A Tribute to Our Son “Matt Damon,” aka Jason Bourne
Many individuals not only aspire to act and become like so-and-so celebrities, but look like them, too. Recently in El Paso my girls and I watched a week’s worth of Family Feud, in which “celebrity”...
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Saying Hello To Life Begins By Saying Hello To Strangers
This blog’s heading is indebted to children’s singer and songwriter, Eddie Coker, and his song “Say Hello,” a line of which is, “And that’s how we say hello to life, forever – together everybody now...
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My (white) Response to Trayvon Martin & Family’s Experienced Indignities | An...
Conflict resolution specialist, Donna Hicks, argues in Dignity: It’s Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, that it’s easier to name experiences and feelings of dignity and indignity, than it is to...
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It Seldom Is What It Seems
Meryl Streep “had a farm in Africa.” In the third-grade, I had a friend in Africa. I don’t remember much about him. And, it’s probably good we didn’t grow up together. For in that short span of a year,...
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Why Kick a Man When He’s Down? | Smoking, Sin, Shaming and Salvation – Part 1
People used to smoke (a lot) . . . I grew up and traveled when international airlines had “Smoking” and “Non-Smoking” sections. At least once, my assigned seat was the row before the smoking section...
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Why Kick a Man When He’s Down? | Smoking, Sin, Shaming and Salvation – Part 2
For those of you a-religious, or nominally so, this blog’s content might seem like a world “far, far away, in a distant galaxy.” If not relevant to you, it might at least be entertaining. In “Part 1” I...
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Our Pieces of Pie in the Sky | Part 3 of 3
This is the final blog in a series of three originally titled “Why Kick a Man When He’s Down? | Smoking, Sin, Shaming and Salvation.” Like Reza Aslan reminded FOX’s Lauren Green, I too write from a PhD...
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“I’m White and He’s Black!”
Growing up in then recent post-colonial Kenya, I don’t recall when, if ever, race consciousness hit me. My earliest recollections are a blended hue of white, black and brown. Kikuyu herdsmen, young...
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6 Habits of Effective & Influential People | Lessons from a South African...
A few months after we relocated to Johannesburg in January 2003, the buzzer at our front security gate sounded. I looked out to see an elderly South African man wearing blue coveralls (typical uniform...
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