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Singing Bringing Tears of Hope in a Troubled World

December 14, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

Today was our annual Christmas concert at Holy Spirit Church in Fremont, California. Holy Spirit is blessed with a youth choir, a parish children's choir, as well as two other choirs, one singing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: health, mental health, singing

Hurley Creates Golf Courses and Hope On Lost Islands

November 25, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

During an episode of the TV series "Lost," one of the best television series, Hurley, the big guy in need of a diet, told Jack: "You know what's wrong? We're just not having fun," the best … [Read more...]

Filed Under: health, nature, Ocean, Society, Television Tagged With: fun, hope, islands, mental health

Time to Think in a Wizard of Oz World

In the movie “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy and her friends–the scarecrow, the lion and the tin man–had one thing they each lacked. The tin man had no heart; the lion, no courage, the scarecrow, no brain; Dorothy, no home. Only Toto, the dog, and the Good Witch and Bad Witch seemed satisfied with their [...]

Great White Sharks Visit Golden Gate Bridge

Californian’s are a strange lot, no doubt, but neither earthquakes nor floods nor swine flu nor collapsing bridges bring us to our knees. And that goes for sharks too. We’re a hardy bunch here in the Bay Area and we treat recent reports of great whites poking around the Golden Gate Bridge like water off [...]

Brookings, South Dakota, home of KESD-FM and South Dakota State Univeristy

South Dakota Public Radio Memories on the Fourth of July

On the fourth of July, 1976–200 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence–I stood in a corn field on a farm near Brookings, South Dakota. I had just arrived to become Program Coordinator of KESD-FM, an NPR station located on the campus of South Dakota State University. Little did I know that someday [...]

Christmas Gift Giving in an Age of Guilt

If you believe the polls, everyone’s reporting that Christmas gift shoppers are crossing you off their lists while Santa is sleeping in on Christmas eve and Rudolf’s red nose is dimming fast. So much for polls. On the other hand, you read about thoughtful people in the current recession who are creatively giving gifts that [...]

Hard Times Selling Memories to Pay the Light Bill

Did you know that Charles Dickens wrote “Hard Times” because he needed the money? Flash forward to 2009 in the U.S. where people–mostly elderly–sell their gold and silver jewelry, cameos, old rosaries and music boxes to profiteers. Memories of their lives no longer to be kept. Gotta pay the light bill. Thankfully, Tyre, Bailey, Roberts [...]

California is Broke: Clip & Mail Your Coupons to Sacramento

Around two years ago I proposed in a blog post that citizens and non-citizens of the State of California donate their unused gift cards to balance California’s budget. Yes, I know others have claimed they were the first to come up with this cost-saving idea but, I hasten to remind everyone, it was me. Well, [...]

Improve Your Blog Writing with Aristotle and your Mom

Writing a personal blog and improving your blog writing is more art than science. A couple of past week’s experiences convince me that if Aristotle were still alive he’d issue harsh criticism to bloggers. I recorded a podcast with one of the top execs at a mobile marketing company. My guest, during the 30 minute [...]

Internet Privacy in a Sea of Web Cookies

Worried about Internet privacy, web monitoring, flash cookies and who’s watching your website activity? Need better privacy protection in your life? Read on. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published the first article in a series called “The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets,” a comprehensive piece describing how ad networks and Internet tracking companies are [...]