Delighted to be the guest speaker at the Kearsarge Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship on November 5, 2017, at 11:00 AM. The service is at the beautiful Stone Chapel on Rte 11/4 in Andover, NH. All are welcome. My topic is: "Report from the Western Front: Flanders and Northern France, 2017" A hundred years ago, during World War I, vast areas of Belgium and Northern France were a devastated war zone of trenches, barbed wire, seas of mud, bare snags of trees, ...Read More

Watch out! There's a monster under your bed--or, as folks thought during World War I, an enemy airbase in the White Mountains. What goes into the creation of a mortal foe? Does history help us keep our heads? I'll be exploring the ways we love to be afraid on January 21, 2018, 11:00 AM, at the Stone Chapel, Rte 11/4 in Andover.  All welcome.  

Delighted to be the guest speaker at the Kearsarge Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship on May 6, 2018, at 11:00 AM. Topic? LYTENUP and HUGACAT. Is the New Yorker cartoon caption contest a spiritual discipline? What are the messages of vanity license plates? Sometimes goofy little things help us keep on truckin’. The service is at the beautiful Stone Chapel on Rte 11/4 in Andover, NH. All are welcome.

Pop culture, history, and religious traditions give us conflicting images of fathers: heroes, visionaries, tyrants, cowards, over-protective worriers, and would-be child murderers. What to make of all this on Father's Very Day (as my dad used to call it), Sunday, June 17? I'll be speaking at the  Kearsarge Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship at 11:00 AM. The service is at the beautiful Stone Chapel on Rte 11/4 in Andover, NH.  All are welcome.

I'm delighted to be returning as guest speaker to the KUUF on October 21, 2018, 11:00 AM. The service is at the Stone Chapel on the Proctor Academy campus, Rte 11/4 in Andover, NH. All are welcome. The topic is: Youth: The Arrows in our Collective Quiver. The cover of the September issue ofEntrepreneur magazine featured a thirteen-year-old girl in a pink dress, sucking on a lollipop. She’s the founder and CEO of a multimillion-dollar company. The same month, Mother Jones ...Read More