In her new book “An Altar in the World,” bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor writes about “the practice of paying attention.” She explains: The practice of paying attention is as simple as looking twice at people and things you might just as easily ignore. To see takes ti...

If you missed it, go read the whole post over at Instapundit (all emphasis mine): I explained to [Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton)] that even people who make $150k in Northern Cal. are not “richâ€� and should not be taxed as if they were…I also expressed my concern that about half t...

:::UPDATE::: A blogger who is rebuilding finds his Obama-critical posts uncached and unrecoverable. Hmmmmm…:::END UPDATE::: So, these Obama True-Believers are an insecure bunch. It seems to me if you are confident in your candidate, you don’t need to run around doing all you can to silen...

Can one possess cross-cultural wisdom?   And, if so what is cross-cultural wisdom?  When I set out to design and create a workshop on Canadian culture and the Canadian work place with my colleague Randy, I soon realized that defining culture let alone workplace culture was an impossible ta...