Going From Where to Where
There seems to be a groundswell of interest in these services that tell you your lineage. You may find potential relatives or correct your assumptions about where you're from. Instead of being Serbian, which you were told by your family,
School Daze
I've had the opportunity to be in a top private school and a top public school in the past few months. Here's what I've found: • Huge attention paid to rest room labels and inclusion. My favorite was "gender neutral faculty"
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
i guess I'm just not that deep, but I can't seem to see a negative about the heads of state of the United States and North Korea shaking hands and talking face-to-face. Unless, of course, you're Robert De Nero, who seems
Oskar Eustis on TED
I had the pleasure of serving on the board and working on the strategy of Trinity Rep in Providence when Oskar Eustis was the artistic director. He went on to New York's Public Theater, where he's won several Tony Awards,
Death Lessons
Why does it require "celebrity suicides" for people to proclaim there's a problem? Both Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain had huge resources available to them to help battle the emotional illnesses that plagued them. Even they weren't enough. These deaths,
Here She Is (Or There She Went), Miss America….
Hypocrisy abounds. Here's ABC's Amy Robach, in her customary 4-inch stilettos and a tight dress above her knee, with a huge amount of makeup and her hair meticulously coiffed, commenting on the Miss America Pageant and its new director, banning the
Samantha Bee (Gone)
Samantha Bee is, to be extremely kind, a very minor "talent." She is vulgar and obscene. She used a horrible, derogatory expression about the president's daughter, was afraid she might actually lose her income (which is based on being vulgar),
TED: Tedious, Excessive Delivery
I know this is politically incorrect, but it seems to me that there are only about ten topics on TED that keep repeating with a different person each time. How many 20-minute, carefully choreographed talks on saving the planet, recovering
When the Cause Can Become A New Problem
Many "causes" start with legitimate grievances, protests agains unfair conditions, and roots in social justice. However, too many become clichéd groups, replete with acronyms and chants. They then morph into funded, sponsored, formal organizations, usually losing the early creators and
Sticks and Stones
Can it possibly be true that some universities have created a policy whereby any student can report and accuse any other of "making them feel uncomfortable"? My father used to tell me, "Don't come crying to me, fight the guy!"