More than a decade after I moved to our small city, I finally got to know Dan Brooks. He’d been mayor for more than twenty years when I had the opportunity to share a few observations with him and to provide input to some of his plans for no other reason than that I’d toldContinue reading “Making Things Better”
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Complete Fanaticism
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus pulled the rug from under the worldview that had dominated Western thought since ancient times by contending that the earth was not the center of the universe. Thomas Kuhn said in his book, The Copernican Revolution, that the idea that everything revolved around us had been “the basis of everyday practicalContinue reading “Complete Fanaticism”
Books, Jerry
Unlike Jerry Seinfeld, I like to read books: ELAINE: Kevin and his friends are nice people! They do good things. They read. JERRY: I read. ELAINE: Books, Jerry. JERRY: [pause] Oh. Big deal. My public library’s Twitter account—not surprisingly—promotes the value of reading for reading’s sake. (“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor anyContinue reading “Books, Jerry”
The Truth is in the Middle 