UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

Friday, I flew from Colorado Springs — where I gave a speech to the Heritage Foundation–to Denver en route to New York. A short hop measured in time but for me it had the impact of Lindberg’s crossing the Atlantic.

I sat next to a wonderful young woman, an Air Force Academy cadet, less than [...]

The other day, I stopped in at a local Starbucks for an ice coffee and a bottle of water.  Behind the counter, an elderly man with a white beard greeted me warmly and served me with dispatch. He was clearly proud to be in that store, wearing a crisp green apron, earning a living and [...]

It all starts with the first sun-tanned days and sultry nights. That exuberant sense of wonderment, of infinite opportunity, of romance and playful freedom that is carried along in the joyous aroma of summer. Of a summer about to bloom. Of one stretching out as far as the eye can see, making everything seem possible [...]

Seems like an absurd question because judged by every substantive viewpoint, Einstein was beyond beautiful–in a rare and striking place all of his own.

But when the great man, the genius looked in the mirror, did he yearn at times to trade places with Cary Grant? Would the physicist who loved women and often played them [...]

Ever since we are quite young, we face opposite–and often contradictory–ends of a spectrum as we seek to live and guide our lives. Put simply, do we want to become the world’s greatest boy/girl/scout in the world or do we prefer to use all of our gifts to become the world’s richest man\woman.

It may seem, [...]