Category Archives: Writing & Social Commentary
Flamenco Spirit
Saturday evening in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I stumbled into a club advertising an evening [...]
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Aug
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 [...]
Aug
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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Jul
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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Jul
Upcoming Commonwealth Club Speech
Please join me on Monday, July 20 at The Commonwealth Club, 555 Post Street, San [...]
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Jul
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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Jul
First Kiss
Those who knew Robert Fish probably knew about his remarkable storytelling. He was a master [...]
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Jul
Filoli Photographic Exhibition
Several months ago, I entered a contest for a show on architecture at Filoli. Happy [...]
Jul
Billionaires to the Barricades!
“The divide between the top 1 percent and the remainder of the country cannot and [...]
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Jul
Robert Fish Remembered
Robert lost his battle with prostate cancer, and we lost a friend of 30 years. [...]
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Jun
Two From Gloria Steinem
February, 2015, San Miguel, Mexico MS Magazine. In her speech to 1,000 writers, Gloria [...]
Jun
Unexpected Birthday Song
Years ago, our good friend, Avron Barr, took his girlfriend out to celebrate her birthday [...]
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Jun
Robert Fish *
“I continue to be grateful every morning, every afternoon, every evening for another day without [...]
Jun
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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Jun
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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Jun
LSD and Me
Gates of Eden With a time-rusted compass blade Aladdin and his lamp Sits with Utopian [...]
Jun
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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Jun
Journalists Rejoice!
Carly Fiorina is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. She may be as [...]
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Jun
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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May
“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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May
Strange Use of Language
Gimme a Zero! * Why do we keep substituting letters for numbers? Why is Highway [...]
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May
On The Lighter Side
True educational stories from three levels: grammar school, junior high, and high school. 1950, Hillside [...]
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May
Strange Human Behavior / Beliefs
Suicide Bombers in Paradise Legend has it that if you are martyred as a suicide [...]
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Apr