UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

The holy men, the professors, the priests and the philosophers, they all advise us to accept what we have, light a candle to it, chant a blessing and then place our heads on the pillow and drift off to sleep.

I know there is wisdom to this. That in a cosmic and spiritual sense, it is [...]

When one of my sons arrived at college for his freshman year, one of his first classes took him by surprise.

The professor–brown tweed suit, bow tie, right out of central casting–proceeded to greet his highly impressionable students with a power point that outlined his impeccable credentials: cum laude this, chairman of that, Fields Medal winner [...]

When I was a high schooler I worked as a short order cook at a pool club in the middle  class environs where I grew up in Queens, NY. I say “pool club” advisedly as it was really a concrete hole filled with hyper chlorinated water situated on a blacktop slab near a mall. No [...]

All of life is rife with paradoxes. Few as striking, profound and poignant as the contrast between Steve Jobs and Barack Obama.
It is more than likely that Obama’s childhood home will someday become a national monument. I have no objection to that. He was smart and skillful enough to charm his way into the seat [...]

Last night, I received a message from a dear friend whose marriage has imploded. The love, the laughter, the twilight swims, the Christmas kisses, the hand holding in bed in the middle of the night– all have disappeared in the smog of ugliness, recriminations and worst of all, dreams of what could have been.

In the [...]