I don’t have any interest in starting a political movement. I just want to live life and be left alone as long as I’m peaceful with others. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. If you’re interested in doing the same — and if you want to do it without the shrill and angry confrontations of politics — I hope you’ll join me in a conversation that might lead to better lives for all of us.
My own political evolution is a long and twisting story. I grew up in a generally conservative household, but I was taught to be a political independent. I also learned — from school and from my own reading — to be an intensely patriotic kid. I believed in our political leaders. I believed in the political system. I believed in the morality of this country’s role in the world.
Starved for love: Portrait of a plastic person living a little plastic life
Watching a friend’s happy family makes me feel pangs of jealousy
That huge fed debt increase? They’ve already used 60 percent of it
I’d love to move to the Caribbean, so what’s been keeping me here?
Do you believe you’re free? Slavery by any other name is still slavery
Childhood programming makes it hard to believe I’m ‘good enough’
My father’s death was proof that unhappiness quickly kills a man
I have a history of ignoring signs that warn me it’s time for change
Socialists miss simple truth that serving others will create wealth