The View from This Seat

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...

As Christmas Day is now less than a week away, let’s think about the Christmas song “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” That beloved song was orig...

Hannah Arendt, the noted historian and philosopher, died 50 years ago, on December 4, 1975. Since totalitarianism was one of the main themes...

“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most.” Those are words from the movie Secondh...