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Not All is Lost: A Letter of Gratitude and Remembrance
Wolf, Simon, Bascha Mahler, Krosno, Poland, 1932 Warren Blumenfeld writes a letter to his Polish Great-Grandparents and reflects on his journey of being Jewish and gay. — Dear Great-Grandfather Wolf...
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My Father Buys a Ballroom in Shanghai, China, 1944
Lois Roma-Deeley shows how our parents can surprise us in this poem, which is a “war story” in every sense of the term. — My Father Buys a Ballroom in Shanghai, China, 1944 Did you ever kill anyone? I...
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Bloodlines
English poet Anne Lawrence Bradshaw reflects on her grandfather’s World War II service and its impact on her father. — Bloodlines My father taught me guns. Saturdays, stood in muddy English fields,...
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Science Behind Remarkable New Wall of Death Motorcycle World Record
How on Earth can a motorcycle ride around a vertical wall? Guy Martin stuns us as he completes this feat. ––– By Hugh Hunt The Wall of Death has been the most enigmatic dare-devil motorbike stunt for...
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The Three Men You’ve Never Heard of Who Helped End WWII
H/T Digg Originally Published on National Geographic/YouTube — Photo: National Geographic/YouTube The post The Three Men You’ve Never Heard of Who Helped End WWII appeared first on The Good Men...
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A Salute to Captain Arellano–A Tribute for Hispanic Heritage Month
— The first time I met the crusty old sea captain, he smiled broadly, offered his hand, and exclaimed, “Welcome aboard, son!” I call him ‘crusty’ because his nose was eaten off by skin cancer – too...
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My Father, the Reluctant Soldier
Dan Szczesny listens to his father tell a story of his time in WWII, and they both learn something. —- First published in 2016. My father is being stubborn. Again. His laundry sits bunched in a...
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What Was The Most Profound Change In 75 Years? A Son Asks His Father.
Ken Goldstein and his father discuss all the changes of the past 75 years to get at the one that mattered most. — Note: This post first ran on September 30, 2012. We are republishing it in honor of...
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The Real Price of Free-DUMB
— “Freedom is not free!” We hear this phrase tossed about by the political right quite often. As we enter this most patriotic of holidays, the 4th of July, I think it is important for us to drill...
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Children, Women, and Families of Conflict Test Our Humanity
— In this country and all over the world there is a deafening cry of “Crimes Against Humanity,” as babies are ripped from their mothers and families are illegally separated at our southern border. It...
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The Profound Strength of an Unclenched Fist
— RSVP to join weekly calls on Conscious Intersectionality — What Renner Larson’s grandfather, uncle and Dick Van Dyke taught him about masculinity. — — Each generation sees masculinity in a new...
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Juan Mejía – A Veterans Day Tribute
Embed from Getty Images — In 1925, Calvin Coolidge took office as president, F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, the Scopes trial was in the daily news, and Chrysler started producing...
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Stand Up by Sitting Down: The Legacy of Two Unexpected Activists
— When Barack Obama was elected for his first term as President of the United States, I felt a sense of exhilaration and hope for our country and the progressive agenda he espoused. He was articulate,...
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A picture tells a thousand words, but it doesn’t necessarily tell the whole...
— This is in response to a writing prompt regarding the photo of the sailor kissing the woman in the iconic end of WW II photo, and his passing away at age 95. A picture tells a thousand words, but...
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Can You Truly Be Nonviolent in the Face of Someone Like Hitler?
WE, AS AMERICANS, KNOW that there were only two things that could have defeated the Nazis: The ghosts inside the Ark of the Covenant. Good ol’ fashioned American military might. A possible third...
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Never Mind a Perfect Civilization. What is an Adequate Civilization?
— I grew up with Japan as an economic powerhouse, outstripping the U.S. in electronics, automobiles — everything modern except spaceflight. A generation after inflicting a bombing campaign on Japan...
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How Can People Be so Heartless?
Since Election Day, 2016, I have awakened each day wondering what fresh hell will befall the world. In all of the previous five and a half decades I have been on the planet, there has been war,...
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Protect the Areas That Are Not Showing Hits
Abraham Wald was born in 1902 in Transylvania which was part of Austria–Hungary and is now in Romania. His family were devout Jews who would not allow the boy to attend school on Saturdays so he was...
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How to ‘Handle’ Social Distance in the Face of the Coronavirus
Like many responsible adults, I am taking the CDC and WHO recommendations about halting the spread of the Coronavirus seriously. I have always washed my hands well, covered coughs and sneezes, used...
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Friendly Barbarians
Four years ago, I was getting ready to give a talk at a Rotary Club in Bellevue, Washington. Rotarians tend to be more conservative and business-oriented than the creative writers that usually make up...
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