The Ramblings of the Titanium Don

Working together for the Greater Good

There is some scary stuff being talked about these days.  Class warfare.  Letting the uninsured get sick and die.  Cutting funds for education.  Cutting funding for disaster victims.  More and more it is obvious that the effort to separate people and put them at odds with one another is of greater import than bringing people together for the greater good. Everywhere we turn we see division.  Red state vs. Blue state.  Democrat vs. Republican.  Muslim vs. Christian.  Rich vs. Poor. 

Banish the fear

What are your hopes? What are your dreams? Who are you? What do you want from life? What are you afraid of? These are big questions we all ask of our friends, our families, and ourselves. I have been feeling rather introspective the past few days.  Part of this is related to what I am reading – Paulo Coelho’s The Valkyries.  This is causing me to question a great deal about the above questions.  The question, though, causing me the

An open letter to the President of the United States

Dear Mister President, The odds of you actually reading this letter yourself are slim, I’m sure.  But I still feel this urge to write to you, and hope that maybe, just maybe, you will see this. When you ran for office just a few short years ago, your message was hope.  It was a message of change.  A message that if we elected you, you would change the course of our nation, get us out of this downward spiral, bring