I have been wanting to write this post forever, or at least the last couple of months. But, I was enslaved to the Alphabet series and something horrible would have happened to me if I wrote it before I finished the alphabet. So, I have been biting at the bit to write this because I want to warn you about the catastrophe that is about to come upon us and I don’t know if we will survive. Last year I wrote a post titled Hyperbole which featured a man carrying a sign that read –

With every beginning there is an ending. And with every ending a beginning. I have just ended my Alphabet Series in which I wrote a post on each of the 26 letters. I chose to do that because I thought it would help focus me. If I was going to write about A, then I needed to find a subject that began with the letter A. While I thought this would help focus me more, I forgot just how many words begin with A. I am through with the alphabet now and able to write about anything (a

I want to write about sleep and what we do before we go to sleep. I also want to bid adieu to the Alphabet Series. Not sure I want to go through the alphabet again. Maybe I will take on Sea Ports Around the Globe, Emoji’s or the Table of Periodic Elements. Although I wouldn’t put my money on any of those. You have to tune in next week to find out. In the meantime, as I say goodbye to the Alphabet Series I’m thinking about how we say goodbye to the day and hello to our sleep.

Let me be clear. While this post is about you, it's not about you per se. It's about another you. It's about them - other person with whom you are speaking. You know, the one that you tell, "You're not listening to me." Or "You don't know what you're talking about." That's the you I want to focus on. I also want to talk about the person that you tell, "I love you" or "You really look great today." I want to talk about them too. I would like you to consider the other person. A

Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of xenophobia going around lately and I don't think there is much I can do about it. But I'm going to try. After all, I'm a believer in what Eldridge Cleaver said some years ago: "If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem." And, I think it is safe to say we have a problem. Let's start with the dictionary definition of xenophobia, "fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign."