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What causes separation?  A veil?  A cross?  A star of David?  Money?  Sushi?  Balloons?
On October 7, 2006, Jack Straw, Britain’s ex-foreign secretary said that women who wear veils over their face can make community relations harder.  Tony Blair later backed him up when he said that Muslim veils are “a mark of separation.”
A few days […]

I was invited to the California Governor and First Ladies Conference.  I saw the speaker line-up and couldn’t pass it up.  And that was before that I saw that His Holiness, the Dalai Lama was going to be there. 
I was so impressed by Maria Shriver!  She put together an amazing line-up:  Arnold (protestors too), Martha […]

The most impactful thing I ever heard Tim Haviland talk about in a Del Mar Toastmasters meeting was the origin of the word courage.  The root of courage is Latin cor, the word for heart.  The American Heritage definition of courage is:  The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, […]

Thank you for coming by.  I have a lot of things to work out in my head, sometimes it’s best to write it down!