Why I’m Leaving Facebook

February 4, 2017 Joey Cope 6

Dear friends, As I announced recently, I am leaving Facebook. In the intervening time, I have heard from many of you and your messages have fallen into a few broad categories: Don’t go. Don’t go, but if you do, please let Togo get his own Facebook account. Please go. But let [read more]

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Transfer of Power

January 20, 2017 Joey Cope 0

I won’t be watching the inauguration today. It’s not that I have no interest in the ceremony or its rich history. I’ve never watched the inauguration. The truth is I don’t enjoy witnessing the transfer of power after a contested battle. In days of old, kings wore special garments to [read more]

Happy New Your Resolutions

January 1, 2017 Joey Cope 2

I’m a big believer that the only significant changes I can make in this world are the things under my control. Thus, the only change I can guarantee is the change I bring to my own life. I have dutifully reflected on this past year and selected a number of areas [read more]

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No News is Good News

November 27, 2016 Joey Cope 3

We have become a society that lusts for news. We perch hungrily for the latest scandal and are eager to see our enemies demeaned by the latest bit of information we squeeze from an ill-written headline. Increasingly it seems, no news is good news. photo credit: Oliver Klein, unsplash.com If [read more]