The View from This Seat

Everything is more complex than we generally think. What we experience daily is thought to be unquestionably “real.” Yet the deeper we look,...

  Lyndon Baines Johnson was never one of my favorite presidents as a man—he seemed quite unrefined, especially compared with the suave John ...

According to a recent online post by CNBC, “Affordability is a buzzword right now.” That certainly seems to be the case, but what does affor...

Most of you remember Formosa being the name often used for the island that lies between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. That name...

Do you know about the organization called “Women’s March”? I initially heard of it by that name during the first “No Kings” protest activiti...

As many of you know, in Japan and China the zodiac consists of twelve animal signs, and each year is named after one of them. This new year ...

This post is being made at 9:00 a.m. CST in the U.S., but in Japan (where I long lived), it is midnight and the beginning of a new year acco...