55 Years and Waiting: Living John Lewis’s Good Trouble Stan Goldberg July 30, 2020 Life28 CommentsAs I watched John Lewis’s casket roll over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought of the refrain, “if you can remember the 60’s you really...
Thought of the Day. Family Conflict (Part III) Preventing Family Conflict Stan Goldberg January 30, 2015 Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day1 CommentIn Part I of Family Conflict, I presented the idea conflicts often involve looking at the present through our history. In Part II I wrote that...
Selma: Why I Write About The Sharp Points of Life Stan Goldberg January 6, 2015 Aging, Thoughts of the Day8 CommentsFor the past few days trailers about the movie, Selma and criticisms about its historical accuracy flooded the airways. I'll see the movie regardless...
Values and Adversity: Boomers vs. ME Generation Stan Goldberg November 25, 2014 Aging, Thoughts of the DayAt a party the other day I had a conversation with a friend who is my age (69) about our children’s generation and those who came afterward. I’m...
The Fear of Change: A 50 Year Perspective Stan Goldberg August 20, 2013 Aging9 CommentsChange is frightening, whether it's a person coming to terms with a terminal diagnosis or an evangelical minister learning his son is gay. Both are...
Chariots of Conscience Stan Goldberg January 31, 2011 Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day18 CommentsI stepped aboard the chartered bus and sat in a comfortable reclining cloth seat with a pull-down footrest. It looked no different than thousands of other Greyhound buses in the 1960’s. A gleaming silver box with sleek greyhounds painted on both sides that soon would be driven by a driver who was greeting entering passengers with a smile. What I didn’t realize was in twenty-five minutes, this bus would begin a journey that would change the lives of its passengers and the soul of the country.
