Son,
Presidents have sons and daughters. Sometimes the children grow up to engage politics, sometimes they don’t. Think of Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy, and an image comes to mind. Think of Michael Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan, and another image comes to mind - hopefully not for long.
Do the children of past Presidents [...]

Son,
Inspiring events are happening in America. Civil Rights, Social Justice, workers, disabled, education, voters rights, quality Health Care, Senator Edward Kennedy. There is a movement afoot, and the Republicans will not be able to stop it.
Senator Kennedy is endorsing Mr. Obama as I write and I can barely keep up.
“…Courage, insight, bold understanding, power of [...]

Son,
Leadership is not personal.  Leadership is not about what I do at home in the evening, when no one is watching.  Leadership is about what one does when everyone is watching.
I really don’t care about the televangelist who privately has a couple of mistresses on the side.  Who cares - what is the message that [...]

Son,
I am compelled on this Christmas Day in 2007 to offer some insight into 2008. In the true spirit of prophecy I will focus on conditional prophecies. Conditional prophecies are most useful because they allow us opportunity to have some say in future events - if we were only aware of the conditional stimuli. I [...]

Son,
I have a bad knee - well, they did surgery on it in 1983. My knee now reacts to the weather. I can always tell when it rained yesterday. Such is the case with the predictions of Nostradamus.
It is Christmas Day and I am tired - I stayed up late last night - hoping to [...]

Dad,
So many people are confused today about what it means to be liberal and conservative, democrat or republican, Methodist or Episcopalian. I am one of them. I think it would be a good idea to examine these things and to make conscious decisions rather than subscribe to an ideology or system of beliefs because our [...]