HETRICK: Learning to lead with Sister Souljah moments
Every once in a while, someone in power shows some chutzpah and surprises us.
Bruce Hetrick
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HETRICK: Awed by America’s generous help for Haiti
I much prefer a nation that can be more the world’s benefactor and less the world’s cop.
HETRICK: Hey kids! Come and get your pound of flesh
In light of the selfishness and stupidity exacted upon children by adults, you’re hereby invited to exact revenge.
HETRICK: As a new decade dawns, could we start again?
Ten years ago this week, a new century dawned. A lot has changed since.
HETRICK: Let’s have a little holiday faith … in one another
One might hope that we could accept a simple seasonal greeting for its thoughtful intent.
HETRICK: Let’s make Thanksgiving a year-round concept
Few of us fare well on our own accord. So when as the last time you surprised someone with gratitude?
HETRICK: Does your private club need a license to kill?
Is it freedom-enhancing to defend a veteran’s “right” to commit slow-motion suicide and homicide?
HETRICK: My Washington day in the war for health reform
I awoke long before the alarm sounded Tuesday. It’s not every day one testifies before Congress, so I was eager and
anxious.
HETRICK: Will healthy workplace hopes go up in smoke?
I can predict as well as any seer what witnesses will say as the City-County Council considers a workplace smoking ban.
HETRICK: No, Mabel, government is not a four-letter word
It’s easy to express populist outrage against Washington. But is the rage misplaced?
HETRICK: To teach your children well, put away the parachutes
Asking our kids to take responsibility sometimes has unexpected consequences.
HETRICK: Will we distinguish the faux news from the real?
There was a time, of course, when journalists had the time, space, resources and respect to sort things out for us.
HETRICK: A health insurance beneficiary pleads for reform
As a hearing-impaired, migraine-suffering, diabetic cancer survivor who’s also the father of a cancer survivor and the widower
of a cancer victim, I’ve experienced more than my fair share of American health care.
HETRICK: Visiting Alaska, and sticking final pin in the map
In my parent’s basement hangs a map of the United States stuck with multicolored push pins showing where they’ve lived
and visited. Until a few weeks ago, there were pins in every state but one.
HETRICK: It’s hip to be simple, so let’s take advantage
A gentleman from Fort Wayne died last month. The cancer caught up to him just a few days before his 80th birthday. Like many
of us native Hoosiers, this fellow was born of working folks. His dad was a traveling hardware salesman,
his mom a homemaker.
NOTIONS
NOTIONS Dear fellow citizen: What were you thinking? Last week, I posted a message on Twitter and Facebook. “It’s time to columnize,” I said. “What issue is ripe for enlightenment (or disparagement)?” My microcosm erupted. Tristan tweeted to suggest puppy-mill dogs. “More specifically, the view by their breeders that they’re simply goods to be sold.” […]
NOTIONS: Dear fellow citizen: What were you thinking?-WEB ONLY
Last week, I posted a message on Twitter and Facebook. “It’s time to columnize,” I said. “What issue is ripe for enlightenment (or disparagement)?” My microcosm erupted. Tristan tweeted to suggest puppy-mill dogs. “More specifically, the view by their breeders that they’re simply goods to be sold.” Randy suggested a piece on “the insanity” of […]
HETRICK: Keep the civil in our disobedience and our discourse
If you believe passionately in some cause, if you’re certain grave injustice has occurred or will continue, if you know your
way is correct and all others are wrong, how far will you go to make your point? What will you sacrifice to get attention?
NOTIONS: Keep the civil in our disobedience and our discourse-WEB ONLY
Twenty years ago, a Connecticut company developed some new surgical tools. The tools helped doctors operate more effectively, helped patients heal more quickly and saved lives. One tool was the surgical staple, used to close wounds and incisions instead of using hand-sewn stitches. The staple is now, well, the staple in many kinds of surgery. […]
Birth, death and living in between
The problem is, we don’t get to choose our exits—the natural ones, at least—and we don’t get to choose the timing.