On the Radio TODAY — Listen in!

So, I got another call from Ben Merens, the host of AT ISSUE on Wisconsin Public Radio.  He was inviting me to be his guest again.  I said yes and it’s today — Friday, July 6.  We’ll be on the air for call-in at 3:00 Central Time (WI-time), 4:00 for all you east coasters, and 1:00 here on the Pacific side. LISTEN!  Call and chat. This is the url for the stream:… Read More

Warming Trend and the Cool Constant of Cooperation

Today is the third above 70 degrees in Wisconsin.  Locals clearly love it.  So do I. And … really?  70’s in late winter here in a U.S. state that shares a rather large lake (Superior) with the Canadian state of Ontario? Maybe it’s the Texan in me who can’t imagine anyplace else acting in total defiance of the seasons.  Maybe it’s my vigilant interest in our reading the trends to avert calamitous… Read More

MC & EX:Change on Public Broadcasting this Wednesday

www.wpr.org Mar 14 ~ 5:00-6:00p.m. CDT MC ~on~AT ISSUE w/ Ben Merens … The EX:Change project and 100 VOICES – AMERICANS TALK ABOUT CHANGE debut on an hour-long public radio show this week.  This is exciting, for sure! An hour call-in for chatting about listening across difference.  The Wisconsin Public Broadcasting range includes Wisconsin, northern Illinois, Michigan and western Minnesota.  And Ben Merens – an exceptional soul entirely devoted professionally and personally… Read More

Keeping Courage

I’ve just spent the past three days crossing the Southern tier states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama into Georgia.  I’ve spent precious time with relatives – kin by birth and kin by choice and community.  Along the slow roll of land falling toward and then rising up from the Mississippi River’s reliable flow I found story after story, learning after learning. In the three years since I last drove these Southern highways… Read More

Voices in the Change: Health Care Reform

“The principle of taking care of our children is vital.   I can’t accept that we wouldn’t want to take care of our own children. As a country, they are our children.  They  are our future. If we take care of them, we’re making our lives better.” Rudy Suwara San Diego, CA 03-21-2010 “And now the House is coming into session.  Thanks for being with us.” CSPAN commentator “The long waiting is over. … Read More

Pumpjack Riding and Confirmation Hearings

3-9-2009 The Fringe of the Beltway Our Nation’s Capitol I had to pull over to write this down. It’s just too great! It’s been a long driving day. I left Asheville, NC shortly after 1:00 p.m. The birds were singing, the sky was blue. I’d had a big bouncy walk up into the hills above the city with my cousin – my cousin, a master woodworker and accounting student who has two… Read More