Category Archives: Writing & Social Commentary

Photo Tips

Three things you can do to make your photos more interesting • Get down low [...]

Flamenco Spirit

Saturday evening in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I stumbled into a club advertising an evening [...]

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Commonwealth Club: 15 Mind-Blowing Success Secrets for Small Businesses

My talk on July 20 went very well. Responsive group of small business people and [...]

The Source of “Let ‘er Rip”

Dena Pappas burst through the front door of the Fourth Street Music store in San [...]

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Grandpa Says “So long” to Rickey

I treasured my visits to my daughter Connie’s family in Berkeley. Her husband, Gil, made [...]

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Upcoming Commonwealth Club Speech

Please join me on Monday, July 20 at The Commonwealth Club, 555 Post Street, San [...]

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How to Save Time at Work

Writing notes on birthday cards, anniversary cards, or sympathy cards is such a time sink [...]

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First Kiss

Those who knew Robert Fish probably knew about his remarkable storytelling. He was a master [...]

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Filoli Photographic Exhibition

Several months ago, I entered a contest for a show on architecture at Filoli. Happy [...]

Billionaires to the Barricades!

“The divide between the top 1 percent and the remainder of the country cannot and [...]

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Robert Fish Remembered

Robert lost his battle with prostate cancer, and we lost a friend of 30 years. [...]

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Two From Gloria Steinem

February, 2015, San Miguel, Mexico MS Magazine.   In her speech to 1,000 writers, Gloria [...]

Unexpected Birthday Song

Years ago, our good friend, Avron Barr, took his girlfriend out to celebrate her birthday [...]

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Robert Fish *

“I continue to be grateful every morning, every afternoon, every evening for another day without [...]

Going to the Dark Side

Like many in my…er…age group, I had cataract surgery last year. Leading up to the [...]

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Speaking Truth to Power at the US Public Health Service

The year was 1963. I was working for the US Public Health Service, stationed in [...]

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LSD and Me

Gates of Eden With a time-rusted compass blade Aladdin and his lamp  Sits with Utopian [...]

The Secret to a Great Dinner Party: Airtime

Bet this has happened to you: You are with two or three people having a [...]

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Journalists Rejoice!

Carly Fiorina is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. She may be as [...]

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13 Mind-Blowing Small Business Success Tips

(Or, 13 strategies you didn’t read in the Harvard Business Review)   Through many dangers, [...]

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“Hey, Rick, shoot the lock off the ‘strongbox!'”

Good luck with that one.  In old western movies, when the bad guys rob the [...]

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Strange Use of Language

Gimme a Zero! * Why do we keep substituting letters for numbers?  Why is Highway [...]

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On The Lighter Side

True educational stories from three levels: grammar school, junior high, and high school. 1950, Hillside [...]

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Strange Human Behavior / Beliefs

Suicide Bombers in Paradise Legend has it that if you are martyred as a suicide [...]

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