As I am listening to Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, now 31 hours into it out of 40 hours, he spends some time talking about the personal cost of serving as a staffer in the White House. He spells out the family separation, the long hours, the constant weight of the work, the consistent criticism…
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Where does mistrust end?
I will in time, have a more detailed written commentary on the two books I am reading/listening to. The first one is a biography of Gorbachev. The great Russian statesman who took the USSR through its inevitable disintegration. He proved to be a man not of the cloth of his land, but someone who could…
Citizenship and emotion
Tuesday is election day in the USA and most of us will be watching intently to see whether President Obama and his administration carry on or a new administration will come to Washington. Most of us have watched succeeding administrations come and go and have opinions on which ones did well and which ones did…
Hybrid Thoughts 