With all the vitriol and animus that is currently coloring our world from the streets of our communities to halls of our Congress, many ponder whether there is any common ground upon which we can gather and embrace or will the animosities, real and perceived, ingrained over countless generations continue […]

This Sunday we celebrate Father’s Day. For me it will be a somewhat bittersweet day. My father passed away nearly 27 years ago, but I am blessed to be a father to two exceptional sons and a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren. As the patriarch of our family unit, on […]

Over the past few weeks so much of the attention of the world has been centered on what can be done to bring all people to a place where there is no divisions of race, opportunity or privilege. While I don’t think as one society we can ever achieve such […]

Ages ago, a flock of more than a thousand quails lived together in a forest in India. They would have been happy, but that they were in great dread of their enemy, the quail catcher. He used to imitate the call of the quail; and when they gathered together to […]