Resistance Is Necessary

Saving What’s Important

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  • Good People: The Chapin Family and Friends

    My good friend Rick Fowler and I went to a concert last night billed as “Harry Chapin: A Celebration in Song” at the Quick Center in Fairfield, CT. The music…


  • Cat Chapin-Bishop Wins First Annual Mary Lou Brewer Prize for Real Teaching 

    I know a lot of teachers who do great work. I also know of a lot of teachers who don’t even like kids. Teachers, like everyone else, run the gamut from…


  • The Day It All Changed For Me — Race in America 

    I haven’t thought about these things for years, and I seldom talk about them, but my friend Sean Murphy brought them to mind when he shared an article on inner…


  • The isms line up…

    There’s a scene in the TV show “Chuck” where the bad guy gets a call mid-speech and is informed that the good guys are coming to get him. He immediately…


  • It’s About Our Souls Now.

    Well, it seems all the players have shown their cards. The truth is out and we have a choice to make. The choice is, yes, about Trump and Hillary.  That’s…


  • The incredible cruelty of racism explains a lot.

    Saw a client today who on the surface just seems to embrace every stereotype of an aggressive/violent man. I could have treated his violent tendencies through behavior modification. I could…


  • Division and What To Do About It

    Have just turned 56 years old, I had kind of planned to stop trying to write The Big Piece That Will Change Everything. I thought I would try to influence…


  • Let’s Try Something Old…

    “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” — Jesus “Know you got to run, Know you got to hide Still there is a great life Lingerin’…


  • Wolf, Ram, and Hart: Playing Politics For Centuries

    The group in the title is from the TV Series “Angel”, a show spawned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They are the legal team for The Big Bad — the…


  • Bernie in Hartford: Speaking Kindness To Power

      Bernie Sanders is the kindest “radical” I have ever heard speak. I suspect that’s what makes him scary to The Powers That Be — the extremely wealthy and the…


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