Take a Chance on Wisdom
I recently had an experience akin to what I imagine gambling must feel like in Las Vegas. Heart racing, skin perspiring, eyes on stalks, I surrendered to chance as I […]
Category Archives: Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice
To Change the World
Recently, I was at a Christian camp for teenagers, and I noticed something different. It’s perhaps helpful to start with what wasn’t different. Towards the end of the camp, the […]
Dancing Hula-Hula in Tahiti
In an 1867 play called Peer Gynt, Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen expresses what would become one of the fundamental dogmas of modern, and even more post-modern, humanism: “What should a man be? […]
James Bond’s relationship advice
In an interview this week to Time magazine, director Sam Mendes disclosed part of his work behind the lasted James Bond movie, Skyfall. Skyfall is the all-time highest grossing 007 […]
And the victory goes to…
Barack Obama is a victor. No doubt both exhausted and elated, he has won the American presidential race for a second time. I used to work for a direct sales […]
Anthropologie and Its Graces
Every month my roommates and I receive in our mail a catalogue from the company Anthropologie. This is a bit strange considering that I live with a bunch of guys […]
The Village and the Mountain
Once upon a time, there was a village at the foot of the mountain. Many years before, people settled there. It seemed a nice enough spot. Its soil was rather […]
Questions of Life
I’m not often asked about my views on abortion, but an article on 7th October written by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown for The Independent newspaper* prompted me to post some of my […]
Facebook Changed My Birthday
Last week my birthday arrived. It was a regular one, one could say, without any big celebration but with my wife at dinner. My youngest son just turned one, and […]
The Last Generation?
Should we deliberately make ourselves the last generation on earth? It sounds like a crazy question, but a few years ago, Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer wrote a piece in The […]
Wondering Fair 