“Sumawka Caller”

There is something they got wrong about us. They studied us. They planned it carefully. They knew that fear makes people fight so they chose exhaustion instead. Flood the zone with noise and conflict and bad news until the people are too tired to feel anything. Too burned out to resist. Too empty to celebrate…

Easter is coming and I almost didn’t notice. That used to be impossible. Easter meant something. It had weight. It had morning light and something in the air that told you this day is different. This day matters. Even if you couldn’t put the theology into words you felt it. Everybody did. It was in…

We never leave the house that much other than to go pickup groceries or Doctor appt.. Being senior citizens and trying to watch our budget on a fixed income we stay home. We did not make a bad investment. We did not break a law. We did not miss a deadline on purpose. We did…

I want to talk about taxes this morning. Not because I enjoy it. Because we just spent four days inside a system that was designed by people who already know how it works, for people who are supposed to already know how it works, with zero tolerance for the people who do not. Here is…

There is a new problem in relationships that nobody is talking about honestly yet. It is not a big problem. It is a quiet one. The kind that slips in through the side door while you are looking somewhere else. It goes like this. Two people are in a disagreement. It does not have to…

Nobody tells you this when you are young. They tell you to wear your seatbelt. They tell you to eat your vegetables. They tell you to get enough sleep and drink enough water and for heaven’s sake stop doing that thing you are doing because you are going to regret it someday. What they do…

I want to tell you something that has nothing to do with polls or politics. It is about a pattern. The oldest one in human history. The Greeks had a word for it. Hubris. It did not simply mean pride. It meant the kind of pride that makes a man forget he is mortal. The…

Is like waiting for a tree to grow for shade My father didn’t say much. But one thing he said more than once stuck. He said the graveyards are full of people who were almost ready. I think about that when I watch organizations dance around the AI governance question. Nodding at the right conferences….

There is a moment happening in newsrooms right now that most editors are not ready to talk about. A reporter sits down with a deadline and a tool that can produce polished, confident-sounding sentences in seconds. The reporter is tired. The reporter is behind. The reporter trusts the tool — because the tool sounds like…

There is a question nobody is asking loudly enough. Not whether AI is helpful. It is. I use it every day. I have built an entire governance framework around working with it responsibly. I am not here to tell you artificial intelligence is the enemy. I am here to ask what happens when helpful goes…