When it comes to spending money, I’m cautious. And that’s okay, I’ve always believed. But I was overdoing it, I discovered…
Category: Essays
ESSAY: Harriet, Ben and Andrew… in Our Wallets
The proposal will place the hero of “Underground Railroad” fame on the face of the $20 bill, while Andrew Jackson’s portrait will be moved to the back …
HMPRESENTLY: Corny… or What?
Why post broadsides on bulletin boards, when we have a community website, and we can also blast-email folks, to keep them informed? I’ll tell you why…
ESSAY: The Hill We Climb Together
The rhythmic recitation by poet Amanda Gorman at the inauguration, her words counterpointed by her twirling hands, awoke a pleasant rush of what the Buddhists call sympathetic joy…
VIDEO: ‘The Hill We Climb’
“But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated…”
ESSAY: Governor Polis Salutes Martin Luther King’s Legacy
Together, as we look toward Colorado’s future, we have an opportunity to re-imagine what it can become…
HMPRESENTLY: Gotta Tell You… This is Unusual…
So, giving in and signing up, back then… there I was, with the opportunity to connect with “the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful,” according to a description of the website…
OPINION: The Need for Healing
We need skilled and determined leadership to initiate a national conversation of formal reparations for both recent and historical damages…
ESSAY: The Ever-changing Shape of Love
Love is the only force strong enough to be the unifying energy that ties our broken country back together. Hate can’t do it. Hate and fear have polarized us. We need to choose…
HMPRESENTLY: Starring Medusa, Plus a Full Cast of Characters
The nightmare I was having was like a storyboard… like the images people in the movie business draw up, so they can visualize their motion pictures…
ESSAY: The Doors of Perception, Part Three
Things had been going downhill, for many of the working families in Pagosa Springs, well before the coronavirus arrived on the scene…
ESSAY: The Doors of Perception, Part Two
If a person struggles with mathematics, does that mean they have trouble using the left side of their brain? Once again, a logical conclusion…
ESSAY: The Doors of Perception, Part One
The first ‘thing’ a child typically learns to draw — the first recognizable shape that appears, usually accidentally, on their sheet of paper, or on the bedroom wall — is a circle….
ESSAY: Dreams and Perception, Part Seven
This is not a new idea. Cultures all around the world, down through history, have apparently held similar beliefs…
ESSAY: Dreams and Perception, Part Six
In fact, modern science has made very little headway in explaining why humans (and other life forms) experience nocturnal dreams…
ESSAY: Dreams and Perception, Part Five
The day after Thanksgiving, I awoke from a dream that — unlike most of my dreams, my thousands of dreams — left a mark on my waking consciousness…
ESSAY: Dreams and Perception, Part Four
“Together, these results suggest that people engage in motivated interpretation of their dreams and that these interpretations impact their everyday lives…”
HMPRESENTLY: My Plot to Fake Out My PC
I’m baffled a lot, because high-tech devices are so smart, and I can’t always keep up with what they’re doing…