That’s Not What I Meant
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know how fanatical I am about precision in language. Our dialogues could be so much more productive—and efficient—if we avoided sidetracking them with inflammatory [...]
A Good Thought Spoiled
For this week’s post, I was all set to rant against a news story coming out of Ohio. Now I can’t. What happened between then and now may hold a few lessons for us. My [...]
A Stranger in France and a Path to Dialogue
A week in France over Christmas set me to thinking about one of America’s white-hot issues—and how we might deepen the dialogue around it. While traveling through Normandy and Brittany, we encountered few people who [...]