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Essays on current affairs, business, investing, economics and politics can be found in this section. Think in the Morning has no particular incite into any of these areas. We write what we are inspired to write. Read at your own risk.
Taking A Break
It has been a year and a half since I created Think in the Morning. I have put up over 150 posts. Many of the posts have been nostalgic memories of the Sea Gull Restaurant and Bar in Mendocino during the time I was the owner/operator. Other posts include...
What About the Grandkids?
I grew up in small town America and look back nostalgically at what I now know was a privileged and cherished childhood. While I lived in a one-parent home and money was tight, I had everything I needed. In spite of the rural agricultural landscape, I had...
Think in the Morning – Splat in the Afternoon
[Click on BLUE links for more information] A few months ago I was climbing down a rickety ladder from a loft in my house with a box of files precariously balanced on one hand, the other hand guiding me down the wobbly rungs of the ladder. My...
The Downside of Inheritance
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. Barry Switzer “Money isn’t everything,” said my mother, “but it...
Tough Love
The stories I will tell now are true or mostly true. I’ve changed the names and taken some liberty with the details. There are things you need to know. It isn’t easy to tell anyone that they are living in an illusion, that they have unrealistic expectations,...
The Watchful Eyes of the Censors
[Click on BLUE links for further information] “Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.” Heinrich Heine, Almansor Censorship has many faces: burning books, burning witches, burning heretics. While not as...
Ethical Optimism and Integrity: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
[Click on BLUE links for further information] Ever since I was left somewhat alone, without gods, I have been a ferocious believer in the power of small coincidences. That is how chance works, at least for those of us who do not have the certainty of...
Funny Money
Financial advisors would have you believe they inhabit an arcane world of alphas and betas and that they and they alone can navigate the mysteries of modern portfolio theory. The reality is a bit different. Let me tell you about an average day in the life of...
The Minute Particulars
Think in the Morning thanks Lindell Stacy-Horton for her contribution to this post. He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; William Blake, Jerusalem The...
The Complexity of Hypocrisy in the Age of Donald Trump
Dante and Virgil, on the right, watch the hypocrites, wearing lead-lined cloaks, filing past the high priest Caiaphas, who is nailed to a cross on the ground. Caiaphas was the priest who said that Christ should die. Each hypocrite steps on Caiaphas as he passes....
The Medium is the Message: David Wallace, Marshall McLuhan, Delarosa Redux
[click on blue links for further information] The brilliant author, David Wallace, gave a commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005 with the title This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life. ...
Calm Down and Shut Up: The Politics of Lao Tzu
[click on blue links for further information] NOTE: All translations of Lao Tzu are from Ursula Le Guin or Witter Bynner unless otherwise noted. You might say that I’ve been a mess of emotions since the November election. The candidate that I least...