Bono on Sargent Shriver

In a beautifully written op-ed piece in The New York Times, Bono talks about America through an Irish lens and wrote this about the late Sargent Shriver: A diamond intelligence, too bright to keep in the darkness. He was not Robert or Bob, he was Sarge, and for all...

Working another angle

The word ‘angling’ has been coming up a lot for me lately. That’s the best way to describe how this Game Plan column came about. It’s partly about politics, but it’s mostly about how we angle way too much in our lives. It just...

Quotable

In The Book of Awakening, author Mark Nepo tells a story of an aging Hindu master and his apprentice who was doing a lot of complaining. He had the apprentice taste a handful of salt in a glass, then the same amount of salt in a lake. It went from bitter to fresh....