Beyond the Rhetoric

“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

You may or may not be all that familiar with Ken Venturi. He isn’t quite as household a name as Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods, but Venturi was a very successful [...]

“It is forgotten that we are first, Americans. I am asking all of us on both sides to take one step back from the edge. Then another step. And another. However many it takes to get back to that place where we are all Americans. Different, imperfect, diverse, but one nation, indivisible. This cycle of [...]

After writing yesterday’s post on how I got started with freelance writing, I quietly reflected on some of the career choices I’ve made along the way. It’s not like I got into this business by accident, per se, but it wasn’t exactly an aspiration that I had growing up as a child.
And so, I started [...]

The loving father often told his daughter: “The first generation plants the tree; the next generation enjoys the shade.”

A couple of months back, you might remember me mentioning The Year of Finding Memory by Judy Fong Bates. The memoir recounts her journey back to her ancestral village in China, some fifty years since she left [...]

We make promises to a lot of people. We promise that we won’t be late for dinner. We promise that we’ll remember to bring the tuna casserole. We promise that we won’t bring up that topic in front of that that company. However, sometimes we forget that we need to make some promises to ourselves [...]