Posted in Essays & Inspirations, On Society, Politics, tagged Bobby Kennedy, Irish Catholic, John F. Kennedy, John McCain, New England, Orrin Hatch, Ted Kennedy on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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When you’re an Irish Catholic growing up in New England in the 1960’s and 1970’s, you’re going to have a certain affinity with the huge Kennedy clan. And that’s true even if you don’t fully embrace the politics.
While I was too young to remember the assassination of John F. Kennedy, I do remember [...]
Posted in Essays & Inspirations, On Society, tagged African American, Black people, Colbert King, Henry Louis Gates, James Crowley, Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jonathan Capehart, an editorial writer for the Washington Post, had an article yesterday entitled “The Race Dialogue We Won’t Have”. A worthy read. Then today’s editorial page has longtime Post editor Colbert King’s great piece “The Black Man at the Door”.
The title of the first article signifies the problem with thes entire situation. The [...]
Posted in Essays & Inspirations, On Society, tagged Cambridge Massachusetts, Dee Brown, Harvard University, Henry Louis Gates, Racial profiling on July 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
When I read about Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. getting arrested at his home in Cambridge, MA, I cringed. As the story unfolded, it became clear to me how easily this can happen. Simply misunderstandings, a cop doing his job, and racial profiling all worked together produced yet another incident that we all could, [...]
Posted in Essays & Inspirations, On Society, tagged Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Wright Brothers on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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…and to the many others who risked their lives to explore space and to make those three the first to reach and, in the case of Armstrong and Aldrin, step foot on the moon.
It seems so detached from the happenings in our lives today. We haven’t had anyone back their [...]
Posted in Essays & Inspirations, On Society, Work on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently got a new client who’s starting a new business of his own. He’s a top caterer in a major city, but he’s changing gears. His name is Greg and he’s strong environmentalist. So, he’s now establishing a consultancy to help anything from restaurants and other caterers all the way up to large entities [...]
Posted in Essays & Inspirations, On Society, tagged Greatest Generation, Iraq, veterans on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The past few weeks I’ve seen not one, not two, but three young men with missing limbs. One had lost an arm, one a leg, and the most recent, both legs. Maybe I’m wrong, but their relatively close cropped hair signified that they were military.
The DC area has Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital. Inside [...]
Posted in Essays & Inspirations, Fatherhood, On Society, tagged Adam Walsh, John Walsh on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I woke up to a jarring story in the newspaper. The killer of Adam Walsh was finally identified.
On July 27, 1981, Adam went into a deparment store with his mother. She lost track of him for just a second…and he was abducted by the person we now known as his killer, Ottis Toole. [...]
Posted in Essays & Inspirations, On Society on November 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I learned a lesson in life yesterday. A small lesson, but telling nevertheless.
I work as an online marketing consultant with a strong focus on social media. I also work as a waiter for a couple of shifts at a local restaurant here in Northern Virginia. I wanted to help out the second [...]
